Session Guitarist/Producer

Available for your recording project...over the web!

I am an accomplished guitarist and producer proficient with all styles of music, particularly rock, funk, and jazz. I am experienced session player (electric and acoustic), I work out of a professional digital studio (Pro Tools HD II) in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I specialize in Internet collaboration.

As a producer I work regularly with top-notch Bay Area session players of all instruments/styles, so I can also produce killer tracks for any other instrument you desire to include in your project. Need a female soul singer? Bari sax? Tabla? Vibes? Sky’s the limit. I also specialize in drum beat/loop production using Reason, especially for groove-oriented music.
My rates are reasonable and vary depending on your turnaround time, and the length/intricacy of the tracks you desire. Please contact me with a description of your project for an estimate.

I also specialize in producing, co-writing/arranging, and assembling bands for full album projects. In that line of work, I recently produced soul/folk songwriter Robert Temple's What Would You Do? CD.

Here are some mp3s of my session work:

Produced for Robert Temple, soul/folk artist from Oakland, CA
Step By Step: CR played all electric guitars (solo @4:22); engineered/arranged all vox, Hammond organ, and percussion tracks

Produced for SOCKET, my jazz/funk band from Oakland, CA
Shafunkle: CR played guitar, co-wrote song
Coppin' A Feel: CR played guitar, wrote song for Cartoon Network's Stroker and Hoop

Recorded for Adrian Engel, house music producer in Bern, Switzerland
3AM: all guitars
2 Spoons of Sugar: CR produced upright bass, piano, trumpet, and sampled vocal tracks;
CR also mixed this one

Recorded for Shagg, pop / groove band from NYC
Between Words: guitar solos @ :10 and 2:21

Recorded for Matt Bonner, pop/rock songwriter in Dublin, Ireland
Gate(1) Gate(2): CR electric solos
Desert Heart (rough mix): CR hollowbody solo
Mirror: CR electric solo

Recorded for Jeremiah Jacobs, producer in Sacramento, CA
This Song Is For You (rough mix): all guitars

From self-produced Calzone Productions commercial music demo CD
House Arrest (jazz/house)
Tear Jerker (rock power ballad)
Kiddie Ditty (folk/pop)
Allman Thang (funk/rock)

Guitar Performance Projects:
I currently play in the nationally touring 12-piece afrobeat ensemble ALBINO! (SF Music Award Winners: Best World Music Band), the instrumental jazz/funk groove unit SOCKET (with frequent guest Dave Ellis), and I perform regularly with the internationally-touring Pan-African funk group Aphrodesia. More samples of my playing are available on those websites.