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TERRY SILVERLIGHT Diamond In The Riff, September 12, 2008
Composed, produced, arranged, recorded & mixed by Terry Silverlight
Co-produced by Barry Miles
"Plaza Mexico" composed and arranged by Barry Miles
Featuring Will Lee, Barry Miles, David Mann, Aaron Heick, Glenn Alexander, Tabitha Fair, Lew Soloff, Bob Malach, Larry Farrell, Allan Molnar.
Terry Silverlight has been involved with many facets of the music business and has contributed his musical talents as a leader,composer, producer, arranger, drummer, author and educator to projects in almost every style of music.
Terry began his recording career at the age of 14 when he played drums on his brother Barry Miles' innovative "White Heat" album. That recording laid the groundwork for what was later to be categorized by others as "fusion music". Throughout high school, Terry continued to perform and record with the band "Barry Miles and Silverlight" and later attended Princeton University while studying piano with Olga Von Til. Between that time and moving to New York City, he wrote an instructional drum book entitled "The Featured Drummer" that has recently been reissued with accompanying audio CDs, and co-authored another book, "The Stick Bag Book of Jazz, Funk, Fusion". Both are published by Music Sales/Amsco and are available at Borders, Barnes & Noble and anywhere music instruction books are sold..
Since then, he has performed all over the world and has played drums on countless gold and platinum records, jingles, TV shows and movie scores with many of the world's greatest talents including Billy Ocean, George Benson, Natalie Merchant, Freddie Jackson, Stephanie Mills, Melba Moore, Tom Jones, Change, Steven Stills, Don Johnson, Laura Nyro, Anne Murray, Jeffrey Osborne, Mel Torme, Jennifer Holladay, John Simon, Phil Woods, The Fania All -Stars, The CTI All-Stars, Jonathan Butler, and movie scores for "One Fine Day", "You've Got Mail", "Object Of My Affection", "Titus", "Frida", "Slaves Of New York", "The Butcher Boy" and "What Planet Are You From". He's participated in countless tours and live performances with Roberta Flack, as her drummer for several years, and performances in concert halls throughout Japan on a bi-yearly basis with award-winning, all-star jazz ensemble "The Manhattan Jazz Orchestra".
Simultaneously, he's had a career as a composer/ songwriter/ arranger/ producer having written hundreds of pieces for network shows including "One Life To Live", "The Sopranos", "All My Children", "Ed", "Jag", "Beverly Hills 90210", "Young And The Restless", "Passions", "Guiding Light", "Seventh Heaven", "Ghost Whisperer", "C.S.I.", jingles for Reebok, Gain Detergent, Nicorette, Pantene, Nutrament, Crisco Canola, songs in the films "Marci X" with Lisa Kudrow, "Mad About Mambo" with Keri Russell, "Head Over Heels" with Freddie Prinze Jr. and Monica Potter, "Invincible" with Mark Wahlberg, "Sunshine Cleaning" with Emily Blunt, Amy Adams and Alan Arkin, "The Brady Bunch In The White House", and songs recorded on albums for Nancy Wilson, Carl Anderson, Les McCann, Judy Torres, Louise (top ten single in the UK), Philip Ingram, Creed Taylor's "Thus Spoke Z", Masaki Ueda, Yasuko Agawa, Maia Amada, Carri Coltrane, Amy Ward, Scott Allan, Cynthia Biggs, New York Nightmix, Agona Hardison, and Teressa Jonette.
Terry has two other jazz albums to his credit, "Terry Silverlight" and "Wild!!" featuring his drumming, original compositions, production, and arranging abilities. He also has released four mp3 compilations of his pop songs, "Songwriter/Producer: Volumes I and II", and "Collaborations: Volumes I and II".
The "Terry Silverlight Band" has performed at several notable New York venues including Birdland, The Cutting Room, The Metropolitan Cafe, and Bronxnet TV studio.
Terry's bio is included in The Hollywood Reporter's "Who's Who In Composing" (January, 2000 issue), "Who's Who In Entertainment '98", "Who's Who In Music/Pop '99 & '00" and "Outstanding People of the 20th Century".
Terry currently endorses Gretsch Drums, Paiste Cymbals, Pro-Mark Drumsticks, Evans Drumheads, and LP (Latin Percussion. Articles have been written about him in Tascam, Billboard, Electronic Musician, Mix Magazine, ASCAP's Playback, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Princeton's With One Accord, Modern Drummer, Drum!, JazzIs, JazzTimes, Downbeat, Goldmine, Swing Journal (Japan), O's Place, I Spy Soul, Drum Tracks, and Percussioner magazines.
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