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Dave Fowler
Instruments: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, composer
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Email: dfowlerjr@aol.com
Web: davefowler.20m.com
Discography:
Rough Mix - The Almost Lost Tapes
Horns In The House - Horns In The House And Other Criminals
Jim Manley with Horns In The House - Christmas Unwrapped
The Wild, Cool & Swingin' Orchestra - Viva! Las Vegas
Arvell Keithley - Nothing But Love
Performed with: Vicki Carr, Phyllis Diller, Peggy Lee, Dallas Taylor (drums
Crosby, Nash & Young), Jeff Berlin, Dave Weckl, Jay Oliver (keyboards Dave
Weckl), Jim Manley, Chuck Silverman (drums), Roger Guth (drums Jimmy Buffet),
Jim Mayer (bass Jimmy Buffet), Ray Kennedy (piano John Pizzerelli), Tom
Kennedy (bass Dave Weckl), Joe Weber (drums Glenn Miller Band), Dewayne Pate
(bass The Ford Blues Band).
Horns In The House opened for such acts as Maynard Ferguson, Brandon Fields
(sax Dave Weckl) and Jon Faddis (trumpet).
Current group: The Wild, Cool & Swingin' Orchestra - this is a 9-piece group
specializing in swing from 1960s Las Vegas. The group includes two trumpets,
sax, trombone, male vocalist, drums, keyboards with keybass and guitar. The
group works every Wednesday night at the Backstreet Jazz & Blues Club in St.
Louis, regularly plays for special city events and at local casinos.
Rough Mix was a band formed to facilitate the composition skills of the members. Started in the early 1980s in LA the core members were Dave Fowler (guitar), Bruce Malament (keyboards), Chuck Silverman (drums) and Gary Bourg (bass). From there we expanded to include many of our friends and their music.
Horns In The House was a band formed in the mid 1990s as the brain child of Jim Manley (trumpet). This concept for this project was a jazz fusion band with horns doing original compositions. The band cut two CDs and then transformed into The Wild, Cool & Swingin' Orchestra when the swing craze started.
The Wild, Cool & Swingin' Orchestra is a 9-piece group with 4 horns that recreates the Las Vegas scene of the sixties. With retro sophistication and cutting edge style music from Sinatra, Dino, Sammy, Bobby Darin, Louie Prima, Nat Cole, Herb Alpert and Tom Jones WCS packs a wallop!
Fantasy is the pop band that features most of the musicians in the other groups listed above. This group performs regularly on the local club scene and for special occasions (i.e., weddings, corporate functions and sporting events). Fantasy has been a fixture in St. Louis and the surrounding area for well over 10 years. Call Fantasy when your next function requires live pop music.
Rough Mix
The Rough Mix CD - The Almost Lost Tapes. The CD contains original music from a variety of sources, in a variety of genres over a 20 year period. There are tunes from Dave Fowler, Jim Manley, Mark Friedrich and even a special guest appearance by Tom Kennedy (bass).
Horns In The House
This group features Jim Manley (trumpet), Larry Johnson (sax), Syd Rodway (sax), Brett Stamps (trombone), Scott "Papa Doc" Collier (percussion), Don Drewett (drums), Mark Friedrich (bass and keyboards), Dave Fowler (guitar) and Rick Zelle (keyboards). This band had a lot of fun making the CDs, which are full of original high energy jazz fusion compositions.
The Wild, Cool & Swingin' Orchestra
This group was formed to recreate the music of Las Vegas in the 1960s and they have a lot of fun doing it very well. The group features Jim Manley (trumpet), Larry Johnson (sax), Mark Garcia (trumpet), Kurt Silver (trombone), Scott "Papa Doc" Collier (percussion), Mark Friedrich (bass and keyboards), Dave Fowler (guitar), Joe Weber (drums) and Charley Boehme on vocals.
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