Ivan Orr is a musician whose creative output runs the gamut from the provocative to the entertaining.

In February 2016, Maurice A. West II decided that it was time to share music with the world. For four years he created music and saved them on his hard drive and only shared his pieces with his church family.  As he progressed and found his sound, his brand, he was urged to take the chance and share with others.  His goal is to remember where he came from since ALL of his musical talents have been nurtured at his home church - West Side Church Of God in Christ, which is located on the corner of Hinkley and Chestnut in Rockford, IL. 

Maurice is a self-taught, multi-instrumentalist.  He began his musical talents when he started to play the drums at church at the age of 5.  His father is a skilled saxophonist who plays the alto and tenor saxophone.  Maurice, wanting to be like his father, picked up an alto saxophone in 5th grade and began to play as if he played before.  From there, he played in the school band, jazz band and various functions.  

In March 2008, after playing the drums in various high profile functions and for bands while in college, Maurice laid the sticks down, and sat on the church Hammond Organ and did his best to play for the church.  Eight years later, he is the lead musician for his church and region and plays the piano for the local University and other venues/events.  

Music from the Heart, Composed by the Soul. His music is birthed from raw emotion and feelings. Feel the composition with your heart and embrace the emotion that each song brings. In May 2016, he published his first album entitled JOY in honor of West Side COGIC's late Assistant Pastor's wife, Lady Joy Lambert, who was tragically killed in car accident in February 2016. Her legacy helped create his musical career.

C'Mon Son! The Podcast is hip-hop hall-of-fame inductee and Yo! MTV Raps legend Ed Lover's take on pop culture. Raw, rugged and unfiltered, this podcast gives listeners a break from "the expected," and will leave them wondering (while laughing hysterically), "what the f*** is wrong with Ed Lover?"

Vibe Riot is an American band bringing good vibes to the East Coast led by front-man @Jaewar and based out of Charlottesville, Virginia. If you fused funky groovy kaleidoscope attitudes, charisma, and retro-sonic aesthetics with heavy drum and bass, percussion, and jazzy guitar licks, you just might recreate something like Vibe Riot.

www.viberiot.com

Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/JohnHartmann/

Contact: csc@johnhartmann.net

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

"What occurs in the world is that everyone who is born, is born, in some manner of speaking, a poet, the creator of something that did not exist in the world before, till they were born. It is entirely individual.
Man is not born to work, Man is born to create, to be that poet at random. And give to the world his own particular message, to realize the work that can be done and because he is unique, his work will be the only one of the kind in the world." - Agostinho da Silva


Header image: The Bachelor Party by Louis William.

Musician, Saxophonist, Composer, Educator 

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