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D-Lucca @ Yoshi's Jack London Square, Oakland CA. August 18th 8PM $16. CD Release for D-lucca's Newest, "Pressing Forward."

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D-Lucca

Musically, people had been taking notice of Daniel since the age of 12 when a junior high school music teacher, impressed with his ability to read music, handed him a bass and said, "If you can learn to play this over the summer you can be my bass player in the jazz band." And so he did. Over the next few years, a lot of hard work, lessons, and hours of practice kept him advancing through high school jazz band.
Inspired by great teachers and legendary artists such as Billy Joel, Journey, Rush, and many more from all genres, Daniel began to focus his talents and by age 17, had become an accomplished jazz, swing, and rock bassist. After high school he attended Cal State University at Hayward and was selected as a freshman to play with Dave Eshelmann's top Jazz Ensemble and was also working professionally to help pay for his college tuition. With the CSUH Jazz Ensemble, Daniel had the pleasure of touring all over California and parts of Nevada, as well as a tour of Southern Brazil. By this time Daniel had discovered the amazing music of such artists as Jaco Pastorious, Dave Holland, D'Angelo, and Squarepusher which inspired him to begin to write and perform his own music. At age 19 he'd been tabbed to be the bassist for Matt Catingub's "Copa Cat Pack Band," with Concord Jazz Records.
Daniel would go on to tour with several popular jazz artists, including, Rosemary Clooney and Michael Feinstein, as Bassist for The Big Kahuna and the Copa Cat Pack. With Rosemary and Michael, over a four year period, Daniel made several appearances on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," and "The View," toured all over the continental U.S., Hawaii, Germany, and Canada, and performed at many popular Jazz Festivals, including, 2000 Stuttgart Jazz Open, 2000-1 Westbury Jazz Festivals, NY, 2001 Maysville Jazz Festival, KY, and also 2000-1 Human Rights Campaign, DC. With Big Kahuna, Daniel performed and recorded with the reputable Honolulu Pops Orchestra; and recorded four full length CD's with Concord Jazz Records, two of which were Grammy Nominated. And, he still managed to complete his Bachelor's Degree in Music Performance and Composition at the same time.
Daniel has become one of the top call bassists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently, touring with Terry Disley from Acoustic Alchemy, Daniel has performed at the Jazz Trax Smooth Jazz Festival at Incline Village, Lake Tahoe and the Jazz Trax Smooth Jazz Festival at Catalina Island in 2004. Daniel is also featured on Terry Disley's latest album entitled, "Across the Pond." Since 2003 Daniel has released three full length original jazz albums of his own "The All For You Project," "Cruise Control," and "The Next Level," as well as masterful Christmas Album, "Have Yourself a Fretless Little Christmas." He is now working on yet a fourth album which will be out in August 2009.

Memberships

ASCAP since 2003; writer and publisher.
NARAS, currently applying.

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Awards

2002 Grammy Nomination for Rosemary Clooney's "Sentimental Journey," Concord Records 2001.

2003 Grammy Nomination for Rosemary Clooney's "The Last Concert," Concord Records 2002

Ascap Plus Award 2009

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