James Graff

@graffjamie
"If you were to dedicate the rest of your life to easing suffering around the world - now and into the future - what would you do? How would you do it? (Work/Play ONLY for charity?)

Global warming, malaria, land mines, starvation, drought, AIDS, hepatitis, war, peak oil, asteroids, pandemics, avian flu, cancer, mental illness, (diamonds, chocolate, prostitution...) slavery, kidnapping, torture, censorship, OR Amnesty International, U.N., W.H.O., Red Cross, Peace Corp, I.M.F. animal rights, spirituality, charity...????

Help the hopeless, the helpless and the health-less!!!

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable!!"

James Graff - musical genius or musical slu+? (or narcissistic, reclusive, newTuber junkie!!): "I will play ANY instrument, in ANY STYLE, with any one, for any amount of money - (to go entirely to charity!)"
ALL INSTRUMENTS! 100+ ORIGINALS, 400+ request list: CLASSICAL, BAROQUE, JAZZ, RAGTIME, POP, BLUES, ROCK, REGGAE, FUNK, COUNTRY, DISCO, HARD ROCK, METAL, PUNK AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN!

James Graff has recently been touring Europe with the opening, warm up act for the
WASP WORLD DOMINATOR TOUR!!

James Graff writes, produces, sings and plays ALL musical instruments. And I am still TAKING REQUESTS: what song do you want to see ???

I HAVE SANG AND PLAYED IN OVER 40 COUNTRIES IN FRONT OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN BANDS WITH MEMBERS FROM:

Marilyn Manson ("Sweet Dreams", "the Beautiful People")
The Frank Sinatra Orchestra ("My Way", "New York, NY"...)
Extreme ("More Than Words", "Get the Funk Out")
Creed ("Higher", "One")
Steve Vai ("Bad Horsie")
Steve Morse Band ("Tumeni Notes")
The Classics IV ("Spooky", "Stormy", "Traces of Love")
The Platters ("Only You")
Expose ("Seasons Change")
Jeff Scott Soto (Singer for Journey, Foreigner)
Bertie Higgins ("Sailing Away to Key Largo"...)
and MANY more...

OPENING UP FOR:

Marilyn Manson, The Beach Boys, The Romantics, Jefferson Starship, Modern English, Quiet Riot, The Guess Who, Ted Nugent, Mountain, Molly Hatchet, Richie Havens, Ace Freely, Wasp, Dave Barry, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Steinhardt Moon Project (Kansas), Marty Balin (Jefferson Starship), Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, Kathleen Madigan, Saigon Kick, and MANY, MANY more...

I gave one of the graduation speeches at Mountz Grammer School, Spring Lake, NJ, (except mine was a scathing rebuke to all the adults who had completely screwed up the environment and world politics for my generation to try and fix).

I was president of my class at Manasquan High School, NJ where I recorded an album and sang, played piano and guitar, and acted in all different sorts of events - rock concerts, choir concerts, musicals and plays - I was accepted into the "Acappela Choir", "Mary's Canarys" and the "All State NJ Choir" (I was the very lowest accepted audition score...and the youngest).

In regards to my two Magna Cum Laude bachelors degrees - Systems engineering and Finance from (snooty, snobby) "Ivy League" Wharton, the "no. 1 business school in the world" (Business Week): "I wouldn't WORK if you paid me!!"

I studied both Finance at the Wharton School of Business (which is consistently rated the best business school in the world) and Systems Engineering at the Moore School of Engineering (where they invented the 1st computer) all at the snooty, snobby "Ivy League" University of Pennsylvania, Philadelpia, PA.

I was born in Manhattan, New York City, NY. My family resided in Spring Lake, New Jersey, USA (town of the newly wed and nearly dead!) for 35 years, but I lived in Boca Raton, Florida, USA for ten years and Tallinn, Estonia, EU for three years and Tartu, Estonia, EU for 6 years!

I started on piano at three and now play ALL musical instruments - plucked and bowed strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion -
100+ Originals, 400+ request list - Classical, Baroque, Jazz, Ragtime, Blues, Country, Soul, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Disco, Hard Rock, Metal, Punk, etc.

(If you want more...you masochist...please check out the various BIOGRAPHY links and pages on my website - THANKS!)

Label Type: Unsigned
Band Members: James Graff
Influences: FRIENDS AND RELATIVES!!! ...and to a lesser extent: Zoroaster, Muhammad, Buddha, Moses, Christ, Luther, Schweitzer, Sugihara, Wallenberg, King, Tutu, Dalai Lama, Dongfang, Lao Zi, Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc.
Sounds Like: S#I+!!! MY EQUIPMENT!!!!! (...more than half my sound sometimes...) Tenor and Alto Sax, Trumpet, 2 Flutes, 2 Clarinets, Mandolin, Banjo, Double Neck Pedal Steel Guitar, Dozens of harmonicas, Electronic Drumkit, Handsonic Percusion, 8 Electric guitars, 3 Acoustics, 6 String Violin/Viola/Cello, 5 Keyboards, for starters...etc...
City: Tartu
Hometown: Manhattan, NYC - Spring Lake, New Jersey, USA
Country: Estonia
Website URL: http://www.myspace.com/JamesGraff