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Aron
Lambert - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Birthday: June 15 Sign: GeminiSome Favorite Recordings: "Headhunters", Herbie Hancock; Any Preservation Hall Jazz Band album; "P-Funk Live in L.A. 1977", P-Funk; "Look a PyPy", Meters Major Influences: Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste, "Mean" Willie Green, "Cie" Frazier, Alonzo Stewart, David Russell Batiste A lifelong resident of New Orleans' French Quarter, Aron's musical pedigree runs deep. His uncle, Alan Jaffe, founded the world famous Preservation Hall and as a child he was taught by N.O.'s jazz patriarch Walter Payton (father of Grammy award winning trumpeter Nicholas Payton). He later casually studied with the Neville Brothers funkmaster "Mean" Willie Green, as well as esteemed jazz drummer Shannon Powell. In 1993, Aron relocated to Nashville to hone his chops. Besides being a session man in various R&B, Funk, Rock and modern Jazz groups, Aron founded a local weekly jazz jam (it still runs today) where he frequently collaborated with saxophonist Jeff Coffin (Bela Fleck & the Flecktones). While in Nashville, he also jammed with such notables as Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) and Daryl Dybka (Frank Zappa). He returned to New Orleans in 1998 to "get back to the funk" that he grew up on and although he had known Dave since the early ‘90’s, they never performed together until Aron joined the band in August 1999. He has performed with such notables as the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, The Olympia Brass Band, and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. "Aliza and Molly are very, very, very, very sophisticated!" |