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Neil Cavanagh was raised in Queens and Long Island, and his first radio airplay came with a local rock band at age 13. Later, he went to NYU to
study classical music composition, then to Boston to learn film scoring at Berklee College of Music. While in college, he took bass lessons from
session legend Jerry Jemmott (Aretha Franklin, B.B. King), studying the tabla with Pandit Ramsamooj, and sat in with bands on piano or drums.
Following college, Neil returned to New York where his chops and diverse musical vocabulary led him into a variety of situations, including
sessions at The Hit Fa ...read more
Neil Cavanagh was raised in Queens and Long Island, and his first radio airplay came with a local rock band at age 13. Later, he went to NYU to
study classical music composition, then to Boston to learn film scoring at Berklee College of Music. While in college, he took bass lessons from
session legend Jerry Jemmott (Aretha Franklin, B.B. King), studying the tabla with Pandit Ramsamooj, and sat in with bands on piano or drums.
Following college, Neil returned to New York where his chops and diverse musical vocabulary led him into a variety of situations, including
sessions at The Hit Factory with pop legend Michael Jackson.
Neil quickly developed a reputation for wildly eclectic shows that blended beautiful acoustic songs with offbeat arrangements and hypnotic
improvisations. He often appeared solo with a bass drum at his right foot and a guitar loop pedal with which he’d create devastating, virtuosic
textures and punctuate the deep, funky rhythms of his live act.
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