Keyboard journeyman and So Cal native Jeff Babko (Steve Martin/Martin Short, Jimmy Kimmel Live) joins a string section of movie score heavyweights led by Songa Lee, comic mastermind Jimmy Pardo (Never Not Funny, Conan), special singing guests Gretchen Parlato and Inara George plus Kimmel writers Bryan Cook and Laurie Kilmartin, celebrating summer songs and the sanctity of summer madness. With Clarence Penn (drums) and Kaveh Rastegar (bass).
pianist & keyboardist/ producer & arranger/ tv musician/ movie score guy/ session guy/ comedy music sidekick/ reluctant trombonist
Jeff Babko is:
Keyboardist/composer/arranger JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE for 23 years (now music director/bandleader)
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, Lilo & Stitch, 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 a Steinway, synths and organs TUDORTONES STUDIO in LA