John Guerin

b. John Payne Guerin, 31 Oct 1939, Hawaii, USA, d. 5 January 2004, Western world Hillsides, California, USA. Guerin grew up in NORTH PARK, California, where he trained himself to try out drums and produced an effective jazz group while still in his teenagers. In the first and middle-60s he previously spells using the Pal De Franco /Tommy Gumina Quartet and George Shearing, after that afterwards in the 10 years and in the 70s performed and sometimes documented with Ray Dark brown, Roger Kellaway, Blue Mitchell, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, and Tom Scott, and several various other leading jazz music artists. He also crossed over into rock and roll, functioning notably with Frank Zappa (1969’s Scorching Rats) as well as the Byrds. Concurrently, he proved helpful in tv and documenting studios, backing performers such as for example Frank Sinatra. When Tom Scott produced the group, L.A. Express, Guerin was a creator member. This is in 1973 as well as the music group toured extensively, frequently with Joni Mitchell with whom Guerin composed ‘The Hissing Of Summertime Lawns’, the name an eye on her 1975 record, one of the which Guerin performed. His enviable specialized abilities and his convenience in a number of musical designs allowed him to function in genres apart from jazz and rock and roll. Although Guerin continuing to try out on numerous schedules through the entire 80s, he was also more and more energetic as an arranger and manufacturer. In the last mentioned capacity, he done recording tasks for Keith Carradine, Terry Garthwaite and O.C. Smith. By the end of the 10 years he was an associate of the re-formed L.A. Express. Among his tv work may be the prominent drumming behind the name series of Hawaii Five-0, while his perhaps most obviously film studio function was on Parrot (1988), whereon, due to modern tools, he ‘followed’ Charlie Parker. Among the countless other performers with whom Guerin documented during his recognized career had been Alessi, Gene Ammons, Eric Andersen, Don Ellis, Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Grusin, George Harrison, Milt Jackson, Peggy Lee, Bobby McFerrin, Harry Nilsson, Gram Parsons, John Pizzarelli, Kenny Rankin, Spike Robinson, and he was on many albums support the Brady Number. Respect for his documenting work was shown by his earning the NARAS Many Valued Player honor on four events. His later function included times with Ray Charles, Jon Faddis, Jimmy Heath, Oscar Peterson, Jean-Luc Ponty, Sonny Rollins, Mike Wofford, as well as the trios of Kellaway and Mike Melvoin. He was also involved with recordings by Sheena Easton and Linda Ronstadt. In the first 00s, Guerin stayed active in lots of musical areas, including playing within the soundtrack of Something’s Gotta Provide and on Lou Rawls’ 2003 launch Rawls Sings Sinatra, as well as club dates. Furthermore to drums, Guerin performed other percussion devices and keyboards. He also published a drum tuition publication, Jazz + Rock and roll = John Guerin. His loss of life originated from a coronary attack pursuing complications due to a episode of influenza.