Larry Goldman

Board of Directors

Lawrence Goldman (known as Larry G. to his friends):

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) Larry is the son of Harold Solomon Goldman an amateur opera singer who sang in South Philadelphia High School along with fellow classmate and soon to be film legend, Mario Lanza. Larry was originally trained in elementary school on violin by a member of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra's violin section, switching to guitar and choir in junior high school and eventually settling on the bass.

After years of professional appearances with many bands while attending DImner Beeber Junior High School in the Wynnefield section of West Philadelphia and then through Central High School in the Olney section of North Philadelphia, Larry was awarded a Congressional Scholarship to Temple University. While studying there he performed frequently with several bands including Free Flight who appeared with famed ex-Beatle John Lennon in the Helping Hand Charity Tour shortly before his untimely death. Among one of Larry's memorable moments was performing with Willie Williams (sax) and Cornell Rochester (drums) in a modern jazz power trio opening up for Jaco Pastorious' World of Mouth Band. As a Philadelphia musician exploring Philly's famed worlds of Jazz and Rhythm & Blues, Larry spent many nights at the local jam session scenes both as a band leader and as a player playing with members of Patti LaBelle's Band, Teddy Pendergast Band, Grover Washington Jr. Band (Locksmith), Philly Joe Jones, Pat Martino Band, Sister Sledge Band, Dexter Wansel Band, Frank Tiberi 's Band (formerly with Woody Herman), Abdul Johnson's Jazz Colony, and many other Philadelphia based bands.

During those college years he also studied privately with several teachers including: Tyrone Brown (bassist with Max Roach), Jymmie Merrit (bassist with the original Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and later with trumpeter, Lee Morgan), Allan Slutsky (aka Dr. Licks who produced the Grammy Award winning documentary on the Funk Brothers, "Standing in the Shadows of Motown"), Al Stauffer (a well known teacher of improvisation and bassist for the french pianist Bernard Pieffer) and others.

Larry also attended continuing education programs at Philadelphia College of The Performing Arts (under the Jazz Band direction of the very successful composer of television music, John Davis). He also studied traditional orchestral bass at the Combs College of Music in Germantown, PA. Before leaving Philadelphia for a summer performing at the famed Rat Pack hang known as the Sahara Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Larry led his own quartet at Bally's Casino's Billy's Pub. Following jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, Larry's popular quartet spent a couple of seasons at Billy's Pub playing his interpretations of well know contemporary jazz compositions by such artists as, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, as well as vocal arrangements of charts by Al Jareau, Manhattan Transfer, Johnny Mathis and rock groups such as the Police and Men at Work. Larry also worked at the Playboy Casino with Frank Tiberi on his off nights.

Shortly thereafter, Larry moved to Los Angeles where he began teaching at the Yamaha School of Music in Arcadia, CA. He then wrote several bass transcription books for Hal Leonard Publishing including: Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits, Pink Floyd's Greatest Hits, Eric Clapton's Greatest Hits, as well as other similar books featuring the music of WInger, Bonham, Ingwe Malmsteen and also the group, Living Color. Larry also contributed his transcription talents for the award winning book, James Jamerson (Standing in the Shadows of Motown) as well as engineering and producing some of the play along tracks including his own production and performance on the track, "You Don't Have To Be A Star" by Marilyn MaCoo and Billy Davis Jr.

Since arriving in CA, Larry has performed and arranged for several Latin bands. His love of the genre's styles include working with various ensembles over the years performing Salsa, Brazilian, Latin Rock, Latin Pop and Flamenco Rumba music. He has also written, arranged and produced the music for several national ads featuring such artists as Celia Cruz, Vikki Carr, Cybill Shepherd, Barbara Morrison and Maya Angelou.

Larry was also drafted by a few musical contractor friends to play some bit parts in several films, most notably, BIRD by Clint Eastwood, as a jazz bassist for one of the principle characters, Red Rodney. He later did more bit parts in movies such as, Lush Life, The Frank Sinatra Story (mini series), China Beach, For The Boys, and a bunch of television series.

In the early 90's Larry received a scholarship to the ASMAC Film Scoring Workshop taught by workshop founder, author and composer, Fred Karlin. Larry also took courses in Multi Media and Music for Multi Media at UCLA while playing in Gary Foster's Monday Night Big Band in Pasadena, CA. He has composed music for the Pacman Rally Video Game series.

Since the late 90's Larry has co-led the latin band, Bandidos De Amor for the past several years producing, arranging and performing their music for concert and film appearances.Their songs have been licensed and performed in the Dreamworks Film's "Paulie" (featuring Gena Rowlands, Cheech Marin, Tia Texada, Tony Shalboub and Jay Mohr), "The Mexican" (featuring Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt), "Collateral" (featuring Tom Cruise and Jamie Fox) as well as the Warner Bros. film "Two Weeks Notice" (featuring Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant).

As a co-writer in the music team of Goldman-Adams music, with partner Tom Adams, he has co-wrote the orchestral underscore for the Universal film 'Happy Gilmore' featuring comedian Adam Sandler. They have also composed music for NBC (e.g. World's Greatest Magic Show I & II), FOX (e.g. Bonnie & Clyde), FOX Children's Network (e.g. SABAN cartoons), The History Channel (e.g. Modern Marvels) as well as music for animated cartoons (e.g. Hanna Barbera's Dumb and Dumber) and TV and Radio ads (e.g. Free Credit Report.com).

Larry has also assisted fellow ASMAC member David Blumberg on various film and recording projects as an associate music producer and engineer. Larry has been a student of long time ASMAC member Spud Murphy's Equal Interval System for many years studying also with both David Blumberg and Michael Mitacek.

Larry currently owns Lake Balboa Studios where he composes, produces music and also does music library and video productions.

www.LakeBalboaStudios.net
www.BandidosDeAmor.com