Brad Smith

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Funk, Salsa keyboards & left-hand bass
Performance, Recording, Touring & Teaching

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phone: 603.494.4147
email: brad@smithwebtek.com
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Bio

Brad Smith is a veteran keyboardist of funk and Latin music in Boston. He has worked as a show band pianist on cruise ships, accompanying a wide range of vocalists from jazz, classical to R&B and contemporary. His musical loves are funk, and old school Salsa. He has recorded as a sideman on eight albums and has been fortunate to work with many of the great players in Boston and New York.

Brad is available for performing, touring and recording anywhere in the world.
Below are samples from various groups and styles.





FunkTrio

Keyboard w/left-hand bass, electric guitar, drums



LatinTrio

Keyboard w/left-hand bass, guitar, percussion.



Solo Piano

Solo piano



CabaretTrio

CabaretTrio



Van Jam Trio

keyboards, bass, drums trio playing in the van, various locations in Boston and Cambridge



Salsa Grupo



DISCOGRAPHY

Michael Blum Quartet, recording "Don't Ever Go"

Wes'n: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery

Michael Blum (guitar), Chip McNeill (sax),  Jim Stinnett (bass), Brad Smith (piano), Dave DiCenso (drums)

Recorded at Jon Chase Studio 2017

Chasin' Oscar

Michael Blum Quartet

Recorded at Jon Chase Studio Jul 2016

Michael Blum (guitar), Jim Stinnett (bass), Dom Moio (drums), Brad Smith (piano

Commitment

Michael Blum, DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE 2015 “RISING STAR”

Recorded at Jon Chase Studio Jan 2015

Michael Blum (guitar), Jim Stinnett (bass), Dom Moio (drums), Brad Smith (piano

Initiation

Michael Blum Quartet

Recorded at Jon Chase Studio 2014

See review of this album in the November 2014 issue of DownBeat

Michael Blum (guitar), Jim Stinnett (bass), Dom Moio (drums), Brad Smith (piano)

Chris Plays Ray

Chris Mewhinney Quartet/Quintet/Trio

Recorded at Jon Chase Studio 2013

Chris Mewhinney (bass), Jim Stinnett (bass), Michael Blum (Guitar), Dom Moio (drums), Brad Smith (piano)

Live Evil

Bees Deluxe

Recorded live at “The Grog” Newburyport, MA 2013

Conrad Warre, (guitar, vocal), Brad Smith (keys/bass), Patrick Sanders (drums)

Take My Love

Simone Waddel

Recorded at Blue Jay Studios, Carlisle, MA 1996

Simone Waddel (vocals, composer), Jim Stinnett (bass, arranger), Tony Fesmire and Dennis Montgomery(vocals), Marco Abreu (guitar), Charles Haynes (drums), Germmain Nelson (piano), Brad Smith (piano & keyboards)

At The Edge

Alfonso Villalonga & The Cabaret Rose

Recorded at Blue Jay Studios, Carlisle, MA 1990

Alfonso Villalonga (vocalist, composer, arranger, conductor), Alan Bern (accordion), Bob Nieske (bass), Matt Wilson (drums), Johaness Ammon (violin), Jeff Warschauer (mandolin), Bryndis Baldursson (cello), Cece Giannotti (guitar), Dr No (drums), Roy Okutani (trumpet), Billy Novick (clarinet), Curtis Hasselbrink (trombone), Bevan Manson and Brad Smith (piano)