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The Tasty Trio
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| The TASTY Trio Bios |
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Luke Thomas A guitarist with a creative and expressive style, Luke Thomas, plays on the edge of "the outside" of harmonic sound, strategically building musical tension and release. Thomas, a graduate of Los Angeles Music Academy's Contemporary Guitar Performance Program, is a "soul-funk & jazz free-groove" player primarily. Previous projects include Peace of Mind (Temecula, CA), The Well Orchestra (Corvallis, OR), The Luke Adam Band (Los Angeles, CA), The Southtown Hounds, and Guitarist/Musical Director position for 2003 Oregon Idle Debra Arlyn. Top guitar influences include Jimi Hendrix, Trey Anastasio, Jerry Garcia, John Scofield, Charlie Hunter and Jim Haul, while top musical influences include Pat Matheny, Frank Gambale, Jimmy Paige, and John Medeski. Luke Thomas has performed professionally in clubs on the West Coast from Seattle to San Diego. |
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Spencer Finnan Spencer Finnan, 22-year-old graduate of University of Oregon's Music Program, attempts to control the vast complexities of the piano and keyboard. With a life-long dream to "lay down a funky groove," Finnan fills the roles of two musicians at once, making the trio sound like a quartet. His left hand performs the duties of a seasoned bass player and his right flies freely, never missing a beat. Spencer Finnan lives on a razor's edge between the universes of jazz, prog-rock and funk, and he has no plans on leaving. All else you may have heard of him is fabricated. |
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Thomas Macaoidh Spices are essential ingredients to any dish, and percussionist Thomas Macaoidh serves just the right amount of spice. By the early age of five he was already in the kitchen beating out rhythms on pot and pans until his parents took him to a local music store and purchased his first snare drum. Soon after his grandfather taught him the basic rudiments and a family friend started him playing a drum set. Throughout his youth, he developed his tastes for the piano, guitar, and composing and soon found himself writing drum cadences for a junior drum corps at the age of thirteen. At eighteen he discovered both classical and jazz music while attending various mid-western universities and performing in both symphony orchestra and jazz ensembles. Thomas has studied with Gordon Stout, Ed Soph, and Bill Molenhof at the Burch Creek Music Center, and in 1998 moved to Oregon where his musical menu expanded to include the exotic flavors of reggae, psychedelic-fusion, and electric world-chamber music. His musical journey has allowed him to travel to cities across the United States and Canada playing for audiences at venues including Hollywood Bowl and the Fez in PYC alongside such great musical chiefs as Martin Fiero, (Quicksilver, Grateful Dead) Terry Haggerty (Sons of Champlain, Big Brother & the Holding Company) and jazz legend Clark Terry. |
