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Dave Scheffler is a pianist/keyboardist, composer and producer living in Joshua Tree, California. The son of an aerospace engineer who worked on the Saturn rocket at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama in the 1960s, Scheffler grew up predominantly in Charlotte, North Carolina. After high school, he played keyboards in a local fusion band, which opened for such names as Ramsey Lewis, Hubert Laws and the Dregs, before attending the prestigious Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he graduated with honors.

Relocating to Los Angeles, he found work in the commercial music world – arranging, producing, and recording a diverse range of artists encompassing R&B, hip-hop, pop and world music.

Scheffler has returned to his jazz roots, channeling this meditative existence into an album of original compositions influenced by the cool modal jazz of the late ’50s/early ’60s (Miles Davis, Bill Evans) and fusion greats of the ’70s (Weather Report, Return to Forever), and on into the solo work of Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.

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Atomize is deeply rooted in the bright dreams of the Space Age, where all was possible. Inviting us to glide between timepoints in the late Atomic Age, somewhere between the launch of Telstar and the accident at Three Mile Island, a time of wide-eyed technological hope, a Star Trekking utopianism.

Reflecting a genre that assimilates styles while

Atomize is deeply rooted in the bright dreams of the Space Age, where all was possible. Inviting us to glide between timepoints in the late Atomic Age, somewhere between the launch of Telstar and the accident at Three Mile Island, a time of wide-eyed technological hope, a Star Trekking utopianism.

Reflecting a genre that assimilates styles while continually retaining its essence, through Atomize, Scheffler, with the influence of his cool jazz progenitors and fusion forefathers: Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, Dave weaves rich aural textures of rippling pianos, warm strings and analog synths with an intrepid saxophone at its melodic helm - punctuated throughout with freewheeling solos. 

Dave composed these tunes while isolated in the Mojave Desert of Southern California during the pandemic lockdown. Then proceeded to procure an international cast of stellar players to breathe life into his innovative creations resulting in an ambitious project of unforgettable refrains of sound and rhythm.

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CREDITS 

Josua Kovacevic - Sax [ß # % † ø] - graduated in jazz performance at the Vienna Conservatory in Austria and has played all over the world with Greg Tardy, Gibonni, Uglješa Novaković, Zvonimir Šestak, Vlatko Stefanovski, Maya Azucena, Mario Bočić, Mihael Györek, Gordan Muratović. 

Tony Franklin - Bass [ß % ∑ †] - Known as the “Fretless Monster” Tony has played in The Firm with Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers and Chris Slade; also ACDC; Manfred Mann; Blue Snake with John Sykes, Carmine Appice; David Gilmour; Kate Bush; John Fogarty; and many many other artists of note. 

Alexander Bone - Sax  [+] - 2014 Winner of the BBC Young Jazz Musician Award; 2016 Winner of the Rising Star award with The British Jazz Awards. Regularly plays at the London Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scott’s and Manchester Jazz Festival. 

Donnie Marshall - Drums [# +] - one of the most sought of drummers in the southeast of the U.S., with his mastery of all styles of music, Donnie has performed or recorded with: Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Ronnie Laws, Gladys Knight, The Platters, The Drifters. 

David Crozier - Sax [∑ π] - has played with Eddie Money, Beth Heart, Brian Setzer, James Brown & Brian Wilson. He was a featured performer in the Santa Barbara International Jazz Festival. He’s also appeared on Entertainment tonight with Bill Clinton, Kenny G and Clarence Clemons. 

Juan Miguel Alcántara - Drums [ß ∑ †] - is producer, singer and drummer with many years of experience playing as a session musician within an eclectic range genres while also composing, arranging and mixing as well 

Dave Scheffler - Piano/Keyboards [all], Bass [# + π], Drums [% ø] - Graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music where Quincy Jones handed him his diploma. An eclectic composer, arranger and producer of a diverse range of artists encompassing R&B, hip-hop, pop, world music, video games and film. Owns his own production music library. Has backed up Ramsey Lewis, Hubert Laws and the Dregs. 

ß - Here Comes the Sun - mixed by Ricardo Mosco 

# - Good Dreams - mixed by Michal Szpotakowski 

% - Inside Out - mixed by Paulo Germano 

+ - Atomize - mixed by Mike White 

∑ - Top Down - mixed by Paulo Germano 

† - Blue Shift - mixed by Mike White 

ø - Slip Slidin - mixed by Mike White 

π - Out of Orbit - mixed by Paulo Germano 

All tunes composed, arranged and produced by Dave Scheffler (ASCAP) 

All tunes published by Atomize Publishing (ASCAP) 

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