Skip Heller Gallery

The kind of musician and composer the big record labels like to pretend doesn't exist -- East Bay Express

A look at Skip heller's resume can be dizzying: Uri Caine, Yma Sumac, Dave Alvin, Stan Ridgway, Martin Mull, Dexter's Laboratory, Sammy Masters, Cannibal and the Headhunters, Les Baxter, Katy Moffatt, Tony Hawk's Gigantic Skatepark Tour, Ray Campi, Big Sandy, Tootie Heath, John Gilmore, Teller (of Penn &), Big Jay McNeely, the Heartbreakers, Ruben Guevara, Fred Kaz, Robert Drasnin, and the Flintstones. Oh yeah -- he was the guitar player in NRBQ for a week when Johnny Spampinato couldn't make it. For starters. This is not your typical jazz guy resume. But Skip Heller isn't typical and neither is the music he makes. Bless young musicians like Skip Heller for yanking the corpse-like state of jazz out of the Wynton Marsalis dynasty! -- Goldmine Skip Heller need not be a best-kept secret any longer. -- All About Jazz Whatever Skip Heller does, the results are damned interesting. -- Atomic He's in love with this music and has the skills to build something new from it. More fun than most anything. -- The Wire

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