Joe Warner Trio featuring
Marvin "Smitty" Smith and Tarus Mateen




Pianist Joe Warner is one of the Bay Area's brightest young talents. He is pianist and Musical Director for The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol, and leads the Joe Warner Trio.

He has performed or recorded with Houston Person, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Buster Williams, Billy Hart, Gary Bartz, Dayna Stephens, Rico Jones, Sylvia Cuenca, Azar Lawrence, Mary Stallings, Steve Turre, Kenny Washington, Tarus Mateen, Marcus Shelby, Stephanie Crawford, Craig Handy, Greg Hutchinson, Roy McCurdy, Marvin 'Smitty' Smith, Eric Wyatt, Lenny White, Dennis Chambers, Bernard Purdie, Willie Jones III, Jules Broussard, John Santos, Oakland Symphony, Rickey Woodard, John Handy, Valerie Troutt, and Denise Perrier, among others.

https://www.joewarnermusic.com/




Bassist Tarus Mateen has performed and toured with Art Blakey, Betty Carter, Terence Blanchard, Jason Moran, Nasheet Waits, Marc Cary, George Benson, and Roy Hargrove.

He also has extensive performing and recording credits in the hip-hop, house, blues, rock, reggae, and soul genres.

https://www.tarusmateen.com/




Drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith was born in Waukegan, Illinois, where his father, Marvin Sr., was a drummer. "Smitty" was exposed to music at a young age, receiving formal musical training at the age of three.

Smith has recorded 200 albums with various artists, as well as two solo albums. He has toured with, among others, Sting, Dave Holland, Sonny Rollins, Willie Nelson, Steve Coleman, Hank Jones, Milt Jackson, and Ron Carter. He is a former member of The New York Jazz Quartet led by Roland Hanna, and was the drummer for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno band, led by Kevin Eubanks, from 1995 until 2009, and for the Jay Leno Show band in 2009-10.

His recording credits include Monty Alexander, Terence Blanchard and Donald Harrison, Joanne Brackeen, Ray Brown and Phineas Newborn, Donald Byrd, Don Byron, Michel Camilo, Steve Coleman, Robin Eubanks, Frank Foster and Frank Wess, Benny Golson, Dave Holland, Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet, Branford Marsalis, David Murray, David "Fathead" Newman, Joe Newman and Joe Wilder, Diane Reeves, Sonny Rollins, George Shearing, Archie Shepp, McCoy Tyner, and Grover Washington Jr.




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