Andrew Gordon
Professional Musician, Composer, Producer & Arranger,
Piano/keyboard instructor
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Andrew Gordon
Born : London, England
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Andrew is an exceptional all round experienced keyboard player,
having played in a variety of musical situations throughout Europe,
USA and Asia. Andrew has released two solo synthesizer albums
which have received airplay on both Radio and TV world wide.
Andrew not only composed the music but also produced & arranged
the compositions.
His experience has enabled him to compose, produce and arrange
music for many artists, TV Shows, film, theater, commercials,
etc. Andrew also has a music teaching and digital recording
Studio and has authored over 50 music instructional books and his company ADG Productions has published over 150 instructional
books which are being distributed throughout the world.
Andrew is a practicing Buddhist
and considers his mission in life is to bring peace, culture
and education to this world through his art.
PARTIAL LIST OF PROJECTS :
Professor at Shepherd University Los Angeles
Supergroovin' Album release with his band "The Super Groovers" played keyboards, guitar as well a producing and composing the music
CNN
NEWS - Spokesperson for www.onlineconservatory.com
"SILHOUETTE" - album project as artist and producer
"LOVE WILL LINGER ON" - New Age album
"Boogie and Bluez" - Solo Blues piano album
GUBER & PETERS - arranger for NBC TV show "OCEANQUEST"
GARY WRIGHT - co-producer for TV miniseries
MIKE PINERA BAND (Iron Butterfly guitarist) - Keyboardist
ABC TV's "GENERAL HOSPITAL" - background music
GROUP W CABLE - introductory theme music
SABAN PRODUCTIONS - music for cartoons
G.N.F. ENTERPRISES - music for cosmetics instructional video
JESSE ALLEN COOPER NEW AGE RECORDING ARTIST
HOMER BRODNAX & RESURRECTION - 9 piece funk/soul band
CHERYL BURDELL TOUR OF ASIA
PACIFIC THEATRE - group musical director
PEACHTREE PRODUCTIONS - score for feature file "IF WE
KNEW THEN"
ANTONIO DE JESUS - keyboardist for CBS recording artist
CODA SOFTWARE - developer of classical music midi file disks
RADIO STATION AIRPLAY:
KTWV, KKGO, KACE,KJLH, KSBR (Los Angeles), KAMU (Texas), WAMF
(Florida), WAVU (Nashville), KTUH (Honolulu). UCB ( Canada),
SBC (Singapore) plus many more…
LIVE PERFORMANCES:
THE ROSE BOWL, Pasadena, Ca. - opening act for STEVIE WONDER
MADAME WONGS - Santa Monica, The Lighthouse, Ca.
RONNIE SCOTT'S JAZZ CLUB - London, England
SOMERSET 'S LOUNGE - Westin Plaza Hotel, Singapore
THE STRAND, Bon Appetite Cafe & At My Place
jazz clubs, LA, CA.
LUNARIA - West Los Angeles
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Andrew began his musical training at the age of 7, studying
classical piano for 12 years. He has studied Synthesizer Programming
at UCLA and was recently chosen to participate, by B.M.I., in
their film scoring workshop, instructed by world renowned TV
and film composer EARL HAGEN. Andrew also studied Jazz piano
for 6 years with top jazz pianist MIKE GARSON. Andrew is also
literate in most aspects of computer technology including the
use of MIDI music programs, Multimedia, desk top publishing,
word processor programs, CD-ROM etc.
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Andrew Gordon
Carlos Campos, Andrew Gordon and Mark Harrison at Andrew's birthday party 2007
A track from Andrew Gordon's band The Super Groovers album Supergroovin being played on the internet radio station Hammond Organ Plus, sandwiched between two of his favorite organists Jimmy Smith and Brian Auger"
Andrew Gordon was able to have James Brown personally sign Andrew's book "60 of the Funkiest Keyboard Riffs Known to Mankind"
ADG Productions Christmas party for West Coast authors. Carlos Campos, Andrew Gordon, Joe De Sa, Barry Levenson, Frank Villafranca sitting.
Andrew & Ron Ganzinotti standing outside Broekmans & van Poppel who are distributing ADG Productions books in the Benelux countries
Carlos Campos, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Andrew at Catalina's in Hollywood
Andrew playing at his Buddhist organization's first annual S.E. Asian Culture Festival. The Steinway piano Andrew is playing was donated by Herbie Hancock. April 26th 2003
Andrew with Kitty Tam, music book buyer for Tom Lee Music at their meeting in October 2002 in Hong Kong. Tom Lee Music are now stocking ADG Productions books in Hong Kong and China
Andrew and keyboardist extraordinaire Mike Garson at the NAMM show 2002
Andrew at George Harrison's memorial celebration at Griffith Park L.A. 12/2/01
Andrew playing solo piano in front of around 1500
young people in Singapore on 6/25/01
Andrew playing with the Barry Levenson Blues band
with Elliot Shavers at the Starboard Attitude in Redondo Beach
CA 6/17/01
Andrew with Rod Stewart before the start of a soccer game
between the two respective teams 09/24/00. Andrew gave Rod a
copy of his book "100 Ultimate Blues Riffs". The first
blues/rock album that Andrew bought was "Truth" by
Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart on vocals. Nicky Hopkins piano solo on Blues Deluxe was what got Andrew into learning Blues piano. It is still one of Andrew's favorite albums.
Andrew Gordon in his studio in 2000
Andrew Gordon and Herbie Hancock at the NAMM show in 1999
Andrew Gordon performing in Singapore 1988
Andrew Gordon with the Ron Barry Country Band in
1981
Andrew Gordon with Blair Silver's "Bluestreak"
1980
Andrew Gordon playing with a well known London
funk/soul band called "Inner City" in 1974
Andrew playing at the famed Marquee Club in London
with his band 4.4.T.in 1971
Andrew playing in his very first band called Stallion
at a pub in Ealing London in 1968. The bass player is John "Rhino" Edwards, Status Quo's bass player.