Death Of A Buffoon Demo

You tell me what this is — I don't really know, but I can tell you this — the NYC Ska Orchestra has already started rehearsing it, and it already sounds better!!

Stormy Daniels! basement demo

Why? Not sure, but this is the best I can come up with so far...

We're So Free Demo

Apologies to those folks for whom this is old news, but you know... it's revelatory at every age, I guess...

Spirit Tricks

Rehearsal with the NYC Ska Orchestra! Kevin Batchelor singing, Karl Wright on drums!

Perfidia Rehearsal

Arrogance (Makes The World Go Round)

This is one with the Uncle Hoy band from 1996 or so, the incomparable Adam Grant singing. I wrote and arranged the music, based on a poem by my dad, Dan Balaban — the lyrics are mostly his. Just wanted to put this one out there for the Halloween weekend...

Werewolf

Everybody Gets It

Made music for lots of children's tv, including Blue's Clues, Blue's Room, Word World, Bubble Guppies, PBS Kids, and Peg + Cat. Recorded and/or gigged with: Ray Charles, Patti LaBelle, Macy Gray, The Persuasions, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Phoebe Snow, Toni Braxton, Randy Travis, David Murray, John Boutté, India.Arie, Percy Sledge, Culture, Duduka da Fonseca, Romero Lubambo, Speedball Baby, Bashiri Johnson, Fred Hopkins, Sugar Minott, John Zorn's Cobra, Alton Ellis, Barrington Levy, Davis Rogan, Charlie Giordano, Leroy Sibbles, Nell Carter, Bern Nix, G.R.A.S.S., Souljahs, Jim Nolet, Kevin Batchelor, Jon-Erik Kellso, Dan Levinson, Mike Clark, The Strangelys, J. Walter Hawkes, Shelly Thunder, Robby Ameen, Lincoln Goines, Mauricio Herrera, Skye Steele, Jake Charkey, Bradley Jones, Gary Knox & the Streethearts, Ed Pettersen, etc. Currently playing with Rho & The Nomads, Centralia, Touque, The Ancient Jazz Quartet, The New York Ska Orchestra, The Grateful Dread, and playing solo shows in and around NYC.

Nickbalaban

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