JEFF BABKO

keyboardist/ pianist/ studio manager/ producer/ composer/ arranger/ apologetic trombonist

Jeff Babko is:

Keyboardist/composer/arranger JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE for 21+ years

Session keyboardist on records (Frank Ocean, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, Smokey Robinson, Larry Carlton etc)

Session keyboardist on movies (Encanto- “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Toy Story 4, Frozen 2, Killers of the Flower Moon, Tenet, etc)

Touring keyboardist (Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, Toto, Steely Dan, Steve Gadd Band, etc)

Music director/touring pianist STEVE MARTIN & MARTIN SHORT (& Netflix special)

Guy with a studio full of synths and organs TUDORTONES STUDIO in LA, CA

stuff coming up...!!

Here are a couple fun things to tell you all about!

This guy here is getting honored! What, you say? (As do I)

My good pal, legendary guitarist/composer Lyle Workman recommended the Poppy Jasper Film Festival award me with an “ICON AWARD.” Icon? Me? Well— hardly, but I’m (literally) honored and will be there to accept on April 11 (also this guy’s birthday). Thank you Poppy Jasper Film Festival!

Also please consider going to the wonderful VIBRATO JAZZ GRILL Wednesday, April 16th to see our new all-star band’s FIRST gig, “THE SESSION SYNDICATE,” featuring Steve Ferrone, Ready Freddie Washington, Shane Theriot, Scott Mayo, Mark “Love Man” Pender, Bella Hicks, and Loren Smith! We’ll be playing songs Steve & Freddie and some of the rest of us played on the ORIGINAL RECORDS. Come support this exciting new project!

Finally (for now)- THE RETURN OF BASIC CABLE!!!!! Zach Danziger and I bring our “unique brand” of musical accompaniment for sub-mediocre cable access “talent” LIVE at our new venue, The El Portal Theatre MONROE Stage! There will be merch(!!), new songs/video and so , so much more. Join us!! Please? TICKETS HERE

thank you all so much for stopping by!!

2025

Hi all.

It’s difficult to post “fun Jeff music news” in the wake of the recent Southern California wildfires.

So many friends… musicians.. have lost their homes and studios.

We did our best to raise some funds at the merch stands at recent Steve Martin/Martin Short shows.

If you’d like to support musicians directly affected:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/rebuilding-fundraiser-for-schoettler-evtuhov-family

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-joel-recover-after-eaton-fire-loss

For now, check the “Live Shows” link for upcoming live appearances.

Fun new band forming with Steve Ferrone & Ready Freddie Washington w/horn section and my pal Shane Theriot on guitar called The Session Syndicate playing all the songs from the records they played on- playing Vibrato in April.

I’m being honored- why??— at the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival in Morgan Hill, CA in April. Thank you Lyle Workman for the vetting.

Happy to join my buddy Will Lee at LOVE ROCKS NYC 2025 in March.

To those that enjoyed my wearing wings on Kimmel w/ Ariana Grande the other night, thanks. BTW, she was absolutely lovely and couldn’t have been more incredible vocally. Wow.

Nice to be on this A Complete Unknown score. So glad people are enjoying the film and the music. Timothee Chalamet was incredible in the studio.

More soon. Stay safe and well.