Geoff Stradling is an American

United States

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 pianist

Pianist

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, keyboardist

Keyboardist

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, composer

Composer

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, arranger and orchestrator. He has recorded with Ernestine Anderson

Ernestine Anderson

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 (including the Grammy-nominated CDs Blues, Dues and Love News and Now And Then), Ladd McIntosh, Kenny Goldberg, Joe Gallardo, and Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction

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 on Ritual de lo Habitual

Ritual de lo Habitual

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 http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/appears/0,,498122,00.html#more.

He is a noted jazz composer, having won the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)

International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)

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 national composition contest in 1974 with his composition "The Great White Also", a literary reference to H. Allen Smith

H. Allen Smith

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, published by the C. L. Barnhouse Company

C. L. Barnhouse Company

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 company. Two of his newer works are featured on the Wayne Bergeron

Wayne Bergeron

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 CD entitled Plays Well With Others: "Samba Brassiliero", and "Scheherazade", a re-working of the third movement of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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's work.

Stradling's music has been featured in films, commercials and on television, most notably in the feature film Ray of Sunshine and on Entertainment Tonight

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 (compositions), the American Music Awards (compositions and arrangements), and in the films Flushed Away

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, The Number 23

The Number 23

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 and Shrek the Third

Shrek the Third

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 (orchestrations).

His debut CD as a leader Les Is Mo' was released on January 16, 2007 on Origin Records.

As a pianist and/or keyboardist he has performed with Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

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, Mel Tormé

Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...

, Sammy Davis Jr., Diane Schuur

Diane Schuur

Diane Schuur is an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Deedles", she has won two Grammy Awards, headlined many of the world's most prestigious music venues, including Carnegie Hall and The White House and has toured the world performing with such greats as Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, B. B...

, The Banda Brothers, Rubin Estrada, Line Renaud, and Sue Raney.

In the late 1970s and earty 1980s Stradling worked as a studio musician in Europe and played on many successful pop records. During this time he was the featured piano player on the mega Italian Disco

Italo disco

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hit "One For Me, One For You" in 1978.

External links

• Official web site
• All About Jazz listing
• [ Allmusic credits]
• Origin Records artist page