SCARBEE: Artist Lounge Nick Manson


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Nick Manson

A talented jazz pianist and keyboardist, the two time Emmy Award winning multifaceted Nick Manson is also a composer, arranger and producer who has excelled in several fields.

His piano playing is swinging, lyrical, consistently inventive, and quite individual.

Nick Manson attended the Berklee School Of Music. He remembers having a fusion band with Will Calhoun and becoming friends with Jeff Kashiwa and Makoto Ozone during his Berklee years. When he was 19 he moved to Los Angeles where he played
with Lenny Kravitz's first band and attended the Dick Grove School. He became adept at using MIDI and electronics, and was one of the first to play Yamaha's
prototype of the DX7.

Because of the Scarbee Keyboard Gold Bundle K2, my back is no longer killing me. I can get to great sounding vintage electric piano sounds instantly and make it tomorrow's next hip thing in a heartbeat with the VKFX. It's unbridled fun!

- Nick Manson

Nick arranged more than 1,200 titles for the Muzak
corporation and currently has original music playing
internationally on Muzak, DMX and Spafax. For much of a decade, Nick was a major player in the development and design of Atmosphere, Stylus, Trilogy and Stylus RMX for Spectrasonics virtual instrument plug-ins. He has owned and operated his own recording studio for the past 20 years and runs his own CD label, Manasus Music.

He has performed everywhere from the Kennedy Center to the Concord Jazz Festival and Seattle's Jazz Alley, also touring in Europe, South American and Asia. He has worked with Roby Duke,
John Patitucci, Ernestine Anderson, B.B. King, Bud
Shank, Bill Perkins, Plas Johnson, Jeff Kashiwa, Don
Lanphere, Jay Thomas, Deniece Williams and Ernie Watts
among others.

In 1994, he recorded the NICK MANSON TRIO: GUEST ARTIST JOHN PATITUCCI CD with bassist Clipper Anderson and drummer Mark Ivester; John Patitucci guests on two of the selections. In more recent times, he recorded JAZZ IMPRESSIONS: RAY CHARLES with saxophonist Andy Suzuki, bassist Dean Taba, drummer Kendall Kay and singer Roby Duke. Among the catchier performances are infectious versions of "Dawn Ray," "Hit The Road, Jack," "It's All Right" and "What'd I Say."

Although the E.E.P. can have lots of bark and bite, I chose to record my arrangement of Ray Charles' "You Don't Know Me" with it and it gave the track a soufully "sweet" vibe.

- Nick Manson

"Nick was one of the first to make a demo for C.E.P. - featuring a solo on a song by Lennie Moore - later we met at NAMM show and became good friends. I'm very impressed by Nick's songs and always proud he can use my sounds!" - Thomas Hansen Skarbye, 2007.

Visit Nick Manson's official website www.nickmanson.com

For Nick's Myspace site go to:
http://www.myspace.com/nickmansonmusic

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