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Post #55056 by mriddle on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 11:23 AM

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I play keys, started at age 9 on the sax (still have my soprano & alto) Age 17 I started piano, took lessons and did my first gigs in the classic "garage bad". Studied jazz & latin piano. I started a salsa band in San Diego in '94, still runnig today (http://yavaz.com/. I currently have synthesizers and keyboard controllers like Kurzweil K2500RS, Roland XP80, Sound Canvas, Yamaha KX88, Yamaha TX802, etc.
My first taste of exotica was when I was 5 and I found my mother's Arthur Lyman album "Bahia" (which I still have today). The exotic bird sounds and forest rain effects totally captured me. I also discovered her "Mambo with Cal Tjader" lp in red vinyl (which I still have to). Those 2 LPs were my favorites! Haven't been able to find "Bahia" on CD yet though.