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Acoustic
and electric bassist Philip
Booth has
led or co-led many Tampa Bay area
bands and musical projects, including
jambands Ghetto
Love Sugar and Sound
Chemist, the Philip Booth Jazz Quintet,
music/poetry ensemble the Irritable
Tribe of Poets , the Jonathan
Powell Quartet, Bop City and early
'90s alternative pop/rock bands Liz
Back on Booze and Thrive. In 2007,
he performs with several groups,
including Trio Vibe , with vibraphonist
Sam Koppelman and drummer Don
Capone; the
Booth/Koppelman Duo; Greenwich Blue,
with guitarist LaRue
Nickelson and
others; and the drumless trios Tampa
Native and Interlude.
He brought a special quartet, Acme
Jazz Garage, to the USF
Botanical Gardens for
a Mother's Day show in 2007. Philip's
bands have played many venues, festivals
and special events throughout Central
Florida, including Jannus Landing,
the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, Skipper's
Smokehouse, the WMNF Tropical Heatwave,
the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center,
the Child of the Sun Jazz Festival,
the House of Blues (restaurant),
Guavaween, the Brandon Public Library,
the Friday Extra Concert Series at
Lowry Park, the Lake Wales Mardi
Gras, the Sarasota Mardi Gras, Yeoman's
Road Pub, the Orpheum, King Corona
Cigars and a Super Bowl party in
Tampa, opening for Jay Leno. He has
also had the privilege of playing
with bands backing jazz and blues
greats Larry Coryell, Kenny Drew,
Jr., Lucky Peterson and, when Philip
was in college at UF in Gainesville,
Bo Diddley. Philip
was the executive producer of the
1996 tribute disc Monk
in the Sun and Greenwich
Blue's When Our Time Comes ,
released in 1997. He co-produced
Ghetto Love Sugar's 2002 The
Uncertainty Principle, and
additionally played on The Irritable
Tribe of Poets' Vital
Signs: The Primal Sessions (2002)
and Kahlo (2004), Stone's Plain
White Wrapper, Ronny
Elliott and the Nationals (1997)
and Liz
Back on Booze's self-titled
cassette, which attracted the
attention Sony's A&R department. Ghetto
Love Sugar contributed their version
of the Beatles' "Within You,
Without You" to WMNF's A
Little Help From Our Friends: A Tribute
to Benefit the WMNF Building Fund (2002).
He blogs at www.scribelife.blogspot.com |
Don
Capone plays
with a wide variety of Tampa Bay
area groups, and recently recorded
a CD with jazz group New Directions.
He has also performed with bassist
John Lamb (of the Duke Ellington
Orchestra), pianist Matt Bokulic
and bassist/pianist Richard Drexler.
Don additionally has worked with
singers Rose Bilal, Kim Murray,
Lori Harden and recently, Denise
Moore. Don's DVD with Otis Velt & Old
School was released in early 2005,
and his instructional CD will be released
in late 2007. Don served as music coordinator
for The Renaissance Center for
the Arts from 2002 through 2004,
and played with the Renaissance
Jazz Ensemble. He has studied with
some of the country's top drummers,
including Elvin Jones and Alan
Dawson, and has played major engagements
in New York and Las Vegas. Don
has drummed for Wilson Pickett;
Tiny Tim; Little Eva; Dee Dee Sharp;
Jerry Jerome; the Drifters; the Four
Tops; the Coasters; the Platters;
the Soul Project; Frankie Randall;
Paris Brothers Show Band; Riviera
Show Band; Mickey, Larry and The
Exciters; Arthur Connelly; Jimmy
Clanton; Bobby Breen; Dee Clark;
Bunny Siegler; Lattimore Brown; and
Kathy Wells, among others. Since relocating
to Tampa, Don has continued his
drum studies with Ron Delp, who
helped Don enhance his technique
and show-band style, which he has
utilized with Me and the Other
Guys, Dan McMillion, Kent LaVoie,
Dick Rivers and many others. |
After receiving a B.S. in music education
from New York University, Sam
Koppelman worked around the
New York area as a drummer and vibraphonist. In
1985, he relocated to St Petersburg, and
has performed in many groups,
playing a variety of musical styles,
including rock, R&B, jazz , klezmer,
reggae and Latin. Sam has worked
with R&B greats Ashford and Simpson,
and has performed in many well-known
venues, including New York's Carnegie
Hall and Town Hall. Locally,
Sam has appeared with many of the area's
finest musicians. His first musical
experience in the Tampa Bay area was
with the bebop group Bop City,
which included Philip Booth. Sam and
Philip have been playing together for
15 years. Sam can be heard on
recordings with the Nate Najar Group
and the Steve Mathews Band. Sam
is also a certified public accountant
and an information systems specialist. |
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