Mike Dillon - Rosewood

Description

Mike Dillon (a.k.a. Mike D) is a percussionist, vibraphonist, bandleader, vocalist and songwriter born in San Antonio, Texas. He is a member of Critters Buggin, Les Claypool's Fancy Band and Garage A Trois. He has performed with many musicians including Ani DiFranco, Galactic, Brave Combo, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Marco Benevento, Claude Coleman Jr., and New Orleans musicians Kevin O'Day, Johnny Vidacovich and James Singleton. Dillon also performed in the 80's with local Dallas and Denton favorites Ten Hands. He has led Dallas-based Billy Goat, Kansas City-based Malachy Papers and Austin-based Hairy Apes BMX (HABMX). In 2006, Dillon started a funky project "Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle" which included members of Billy Goat, drummer Go-Go Ray, and bassist, J.J. Jungle. The live Go-Go Jungle also performs songs from Dillon's prior projects. They released their second CD entitled Rock Star Bench Press in 2009. Dillon contributed the majority of compositions to Garage A Trois' Power Patriot CD released in 2009. Dillon and saxophonist Skerik perform as a trio called "The Dead Kenny G's" with alternate third members. National tours have included keyboardist Brian Haas and bassist Brad Houser. With Houser they have also toured as "Critters Buggin Trio". They released a CD entitled Bewildered Herd in 2009. As a trio with bassist James Singleton, Dillon and Skerik have toured as "Illuminasti" and as a trio with Les Claypool they have been billed as "The Fancy Trio". Dillon resides in Kansas City Missouri, but a busy touring schedule keeps him on the road much of the time.

Release info

Label: Royal Potato Family none
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 2020
Genre: Jazz
Style: Jazz-Rock

Tracklist

A1 Tiki Bird Whistle
A2 Beignet's Bounce
A3 Mulatu Goes To India
A4 St. Claude's Drone
A5 Vibes At The End Of The World
A6 Hurt
B1 Rhumba For Peregrine
B2 Earl's Bolero
B3 Bonobo
B4 Talking To Mary
B5 Sober On Mardi Gras
B6 Tony Allen At The Music Box
B7 Can't Make A Sound