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

update!

hello people of the world wide web!

so...

NAMM week is coming up here... two exciting gigs here in LA, both at the Blue Whale in Little Tokyo... first is the debut live performance of BAND OF OTHER BROTHERS, with Nir Felder (gtr), Will Lee (bs), Keith Carlock (ds), and Jeff Coffin (ww) on WEDNESDAY 1/18, and then a few days later, on Saturday 1/21, I'll be w/ Mark Guiliana's Beat Music LA on a double bill with Zach Danziger/Owen Biddle's EDIT BUNKER.  Quite a week of music-- and at the Blue Whale you're not inundated with slapping of Foderas and wailing of Jacksons.

Speaking of BAND OF OTHER BROTHERS, our first album, "City Of Cranes" is getting spins on lots of jazz and college radio staions nationwide.  Thanks to:

KVNF: Panoia, CO/KCCK: Cedar Rapids, IA/KRTU: San Antonio, TX for adding our record this week, in addition to:

CFUV: Victoria, BC/KCSB: Santa Barbara, CA/KEUL: Girdwood, AK/WDPS: Dayton, OH/ WDPS: Dayton, OH/WMSE: Milwaukee, WI/WTJU: Charlottesville, VA as well as all the other stations that have been spinning us since December.  We appreciate it!

keep an eye out for dates w/ Steve Martin & Martin Short this year, along with some dates w/ James Taylor.  will list as they are released!

best,

jb