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Jason was
born and raised in St. Louis, MO. Like most, Jason was around music a
great deal at an early age. His father, Dennis, founded the local band,
Armor. Armor was a classic rock band in the vein of Led Zeppelin,
Boston, Foreigner, Van Halen, etc. So very young, Jason was a rocker.
At age 3 Jason began playing drums
... constantly. His early aspirations were to become a rock drummer.
Unfortunately, Jason was born about 10 years too late. At 13 he began
piddling on the keyboards, no lessons, just noodling around a few
chords, a few songs, no theory. Being able to play piano instead of just
drums gave Jason a way to start writing songs (drummers generally make
poor songwriters). By his mid teens Jason started focusing on writing.
Most of the tunes were piano oriented soft rock, similar to Richard
Marx, Bryan Adams, Diane Warren, and so on.
In his late teens Jason moved
towards bass and acoustic guitar. The guitar gave him a new instrument
with a whole new arena of dynamics. This moved him to write other styles
of songs, overall a bit more upbeat, musically at least. He made dozens
of home demos and, like many aspiring songwriters, sent them to numerous
publishers, agents, record companies, and Taxi.
In 2000, the week of his 25th
birthday, Jason moved to Orlando Florida to begin working as a piano
player/entertainer at Jellyrolls Dueling Piano Bar on Walt Disney
World's Boardwalk. At Jellyrolls, Jason learned a great deal about music
theory, structure, arrangement, and harmony from the senior piano
players. For the next couple of years Jason concentrated on his job as
an entertainer at Jellyrolls and put his songwriting and recording on
hold.
In December of 2002 he began work on the CD Stolen Season. Like many
other projects there were delays on top of delays, but it was finally
completed in September 2005.
Stolen Season is a classic
rock/pop album. Jason wrote all songs and had immeasurable help in the
production and guitar department from his father, Dennis, and brother,
Trevor.
Jason is still performing 5 nights a week at Jellyrolls and is now
focused on promoting his new CD as much as possible.
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