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Jim Reiske
Guitar & VocalsJim was born in Kendallville, IN 1959 and began playing guitar at age 7. Even three months in a body cast with a broken femur (which was the result of a superball accident), did not set him back musically. He made his first live radio performance at age 10 with the band Cloud and had his first paid work at age 12 playing junior high and high school dances with various bands. His first live outdoor performance at age 13 at a large music festival included a note for note rendition of Hendrix's classic arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner. Jim spent four years in concert/marching band and jazz band in high school and he won both the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award and Best Soloist at the Elmhurst Jazz Festival in 1977. After high school Jim spent one season with the Chicago Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps playing contra bass bugle. After his season with the Chicago Cavaliers was over, Jim enrolled at Indiana University to study Audio Engineering and Music. He later transferred to Berklee College of Music in Boston where some of his classmates were Steve Via, Melissa Etheridge, the Marsalis brothers, Mark Egan, Lyle Mayes, Kevin Eubanks and Tommy Campbell. Jim was a member of three ensembles and a project band while at Berklee which played graduate students' compositions as well as standard and big band literature. |
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Throughout the 80's Jim played with a variety of bands including a boston progressive band State of Mind. He also spent a year recording and touring with producer Dinky Dawson. He toured the US and Canada in agency bands including Ground Zero, The Look, and You Guys. Jim's producing skills became evident when the song Infatuation, by the legendary Chicago band The Cleaning Ladies, won the MTV Basement Tapes award in 1989. He also co-produced and played guitar on Need You Tonight for the Indiana band Leaning House. The 1990's brought loads of mainstream jazz, funk, and classic rock gigs with bands such as Red Planet and Cosmic Danger. In 1992 Jim opened a music store and digital recording studio called Recycled Music and Audio in Kendallville, IN. He co-produced the first two Todd Harrold CDs, two Pearson Family projects, and many songwriter, band demos and live recordings. He spent six years as band leader and guitarist for the television comedy show Nightshift as well as touring the Midwest with the Todd Harrold Band. He has appeared as producer and instrumentalist on international projects for Tony Kendrick, Laura Marenco ( Central America's Newest Pop Singer ), Dave Hicks, Dallas Quinley, Kathy Kreigh ( Heartland Chamber Choral), and many others. Currently doing sessions, and gigging with "Cosmic Danger", "Todd Harrold Band", and "Derek-Lemish-Reiske-Steele" ( Midwest's Premier Jazz/Fusion Ensemble ) Look for New Jazz Fusion Solo Release 2004 with some of the area's best guest musicians.
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