Shane Willis - Music Director

A 32-year old percussionist from Columbus, Ohio that has been playing drums and percussion for 22 years. Shane started playing professionally at age 17,when he quickly dove into all styles of music from Jazz, Funk, R+B, Latin, Rock and Metal. He started touring the jazz festival circuit, playing with such acts as The Afro-Rican Ensemble, Othello Mulleneux, Mimi Fox, Carlos Malta and Humberto Ramirez. He currently is touring with Smooth Jazz trumpeter David Wells along side Bass player/Arranger-Composer Scott Gold. Shane and Scott are producing a high energy Duo project called "HOOK", where they play mostly original compositions and creative groove oriented arrangements using " Hooks" from some of there favorite musicians. They are influenced by the music of Weather Report, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock,Charlie Parker,Pat Metheny and Arturo Sandoval just to name a few.

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                                        Bass player