Di Novi also notes that, when her father was a session musician for Day, he and the other musicians had to put money in a " swear jar " when they cursed.

Although this featured Moon's singing, much drumming was left to other artists, including Ringo Starr, session musicians Curly Smith and Jim Keltner and actor / musician Miguel Ferrer ( Twin Peaks and Crossing Jordan ).

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( YMO ) in 1978.

As session musician, he recorded with Suzanne Vega, Lauryn Hill, Zack de la Rocha, Young Ryda, Ed Rush and Optical, Firewater, They Might Be Giants and Greg Kurstin.

* Tony Terran, Los Angeles session musician and trumpet player

What was not mentioned at the time was that the cutting back of his involvement in the new XTC recordings, ( the string arrangements having been taken over by Andy Partridge ), meant considerably fewer " points " in the calculation of royalties ; as Gregory never wrote any songs for the band, this put a significant dent in his potential income from the album, basically reducing his payments to that of a session musician.

In the end, Gregory was credited as a session musician rather than as a band member on the finished album, as he left before it was completed.

They were also stablemates at Blue Horizon, and Fleetwood Mac had asked Christine to play piano as a session musician for Peter Green's songs on the band's second album, Mr. Wonderful.

* Phil Jones – drums, percussion ( 1990 – 1992 – session musician )

* The jazz musician Stan Getz came on to her during a recording session for her album but she declined and he did not speak to her.

Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician, and as a performance artist.

In addition to being an active session musician, Hughes also maintains a notable solo career, and currently fronts the supergroup Black Country Communion.

After recording Rocket 88, Turner became a session musician and production assistant for Sam Philips and the Bihari Brothers, commuting to Memphis from Clarksdale.

In between live dates, Turner took the band to Cincinnati to record for Federal in 1956 and Chicago for Cobra / Artistic in 1958, as well as fulfilling his contract as a session musician back at Sun.

* Chester Thompson ( born 1948 ), American drummer and session musician

Haley hired several new musicians to take their place: Rudy Pompilli on sax, Al Rex ( a former member of the Saddlemen ) on double bass, and Ralph Jones on drums ; in addition, lead guitarist Franny Beecher, who had been a session musician for Haley since Cedrone's death in the fall of 1954, became a full-time Comet and Haley's first performing lead guitarist.

He has worked as a session musician and writing collaborator with artists including The Pretenders, Bryan Ferry, Pet Shop Boys, Billy Bragg, Black Grape, Talking Heads, Crowded House, and Beck.

Jones has stated that, as a session musician, he was completing two and three sessions a day, six and seven days a week.

In his earliest days, Gabriel played flute on Cat Stevens's first album on the Island records label, Mona Bone Jakon as a " nervous session musician ".

Wakeman became an active session musician.

Nieve had played as a session musician with Squeeze and Difford & Tilbook in the past, but had not — until this line-up change — ever been an official member of the group.

Skyclad began as a thrash metal band but added violins from session musician Mike Evans on several tracks from their debut album, The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth, an effort described by Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic as " ambitious " and " groundbreaking.

For the last couple of shows, the band also utilized another session musician.

He has a cameo as Frog, a session musician, appearing in several scenes.

As an adult he found work as a guitarist and session musician in clubs, radio, dance hall bands, and so on, playing with many performers including Gracie Fields, Bob Monkhouse and Kathy Kirby, and on television programs such as Opportunity Knocks.

During this time he worked frequently as a session musician, arranger and songwriter.

" According to Tony Cummings, " Despite the use of a different arranger at each session Solomon conquered all.

This session is particularly notable because of the participation of famed jazz pianist and arranger Ferdinand “ Jelly Roll ” Morton.

Guitarist Eric Bazilian became recognized internationally for being a songwriter, session musician, arranger and producer for numerous artists throughout the United States and Europe.

Keyboard player Rob Hyman built his own recording studio, Elmstreet Studios, in suburban Philadelphia, while also contributing to numerous musical artists as a songwriter, session musician, arranger and producer, among them being Joan Osborne and Ricky Martin.

His contibutions include performing as a live and studio session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock / pop band Toto.

Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger.

The session was also arranged by ex-Motown arranger David J.

Ben and Jerry quickly finished the lyrics ..." The fact that arranger Stan Applebaum could not possibly have dashed off an entire string chart at the end of a session, much less copied and distributed all the parts, supports this less dramatic version of the events.

Moran studied at the Royal College of Music in London prior to becoming a session musician and composer / arranger, including music for films such as Time Bandits and The Missionary.

Phil Margo played drums on the original session and the arranger was Norman Bergen.

Mick Ronson who was at the time the lead guitarist with Bowie's band, The Spiders from Mars, played a major role in the recording of the album, serving as the co-producer and primary session musician ( contributing guitar, piano, recorder and backing vocals ) and arranger, notably the lush string arrangement for " Perfect Day ".

As an arranger and improvising session cellist she has recorded for nearly two decades with numerous groups including The Style Council ( A Stones Throw Away ), The Smiths ( Stop Me ), Nick Cave ( on Tender Prey ), Dubstar, The Cure, The Sundays, Lush, the Smashing Pumpkins ( for whom she conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra strings ) and Dave Matthews ( for whom she conducted the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in eight of her arrangements for the album Some Devil ), as well as live and television appearances with many others.

" Having become a parent in the same year, hence home-responsibility-bound, Wirtz dropped his " loose cannon " career pursuits and, under the name of Marc Peters, submerged into the role of " hired gun " session arranger / conductor in partnership with producers including Kim Fowley and Jimmy Bowen.

Fender also delivered an early Precision to LA session bassist and arranger Shifty Henry.

He could carry out any or all of the musical chores on any given session: composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, and even pianist if that was required.

Winbush also carries the distinction of being one of the few female artists to find success as a songwriter, arranger, producer and session musician ( Winbush also is an avid musician playing piano and keyboards ).

Batt credits Hayes with saving his brass arrangement on the track " Old Songs for New Songs ", which was his first major recording session as an arranger — on the first take, he discovered he had inadvertently notated the parts in the wrong key but Hayes and his colleagues, realizing his mistake, discreetly transposed their parts by ear so that they would match the backing track.

Briley was later signed to George Martin's AIR group of companies and went on to become an important part of the London studio scene as an arranger, vocalist and sought-after session guitarist.

He was a session musician for many years and frequently acted as arranger and fixer for recording sessions.

Scott Ford is an accomplished session bassist, vocalist, and arranger.

Currently he is active on both coasts as a jazz and rock keyboardist, a session pianist, organist and accordionist, and a composer, arranger and producer.

He has remained a very active session musician and arranger.

She recorded it at her first session in New York City, after moving from her hometown of Chicago, with arranger David Terry.