STYLES
Beach, Pop, Doo Wop, R&B,Christmas, Film music, Instrumentals of various moods and styles

SOUNDS LIKE / INFLUENCES
As a singer: Drifters, Rascals, Philly Soul, Bobby Darin
As an arranger: Arif Mardin, Percy Faith, George Martin
As a composer: Copland, Stravinsky, Korngold, Rossini, Tiomkin, Debussy
As a songwriter: Beatles, Beach Boys, Anthony Newley / Leslie Briccuse, musical theater.

CONTACT
Philly Cuzz Battaglia
PhillyCuzz@Comcast.net
215 755 0457
www.PhillyCuzz.com

HOMETOWN
Philadelphia

ARTIST INFO
Philly Cuzz currently has one of the top requested doo wop songs on radio. His original “One Summer Night” written in 2004 (not a remake of the same name oldie) is played in rotation on Sirius XM’s Cool Bobby B Show – (read comments via Philly Cuzz/ You Tube.) His self produced beach albums have been a staple at the South Jersey shore since 2000, often featured on gift shops counters, as well as, regional Borders and Barnes and Noble stores. His On The Way To Cape May with Philly Cuzz and The Shoobies CD actually made the front page story of the Philadelphia Sunday Inquirer.

Cuzz writes “for three generations cruising to the shore in a family car,” and as a result has a following that is uniquely multigenerational. Featured at the Las Vegas Doo Wop Convention, one fan remarked, “Philly Cuzz makes music that doo wop grandparents and the grandkids can bond with.” The Pentagon’s radio station actually featured in rotation his 9/11 song “We Are Americans”. And when you think of Philadelphia, you might think of cheese steaks. Cuzz wrote the jingle for the top cheese steak joint is South Philly – Geno’s Steaks. He also played keyboards for the vintage doo wop group The Tymes and was the last piano player to peform at Atlantic City’s legendary 500 Club. His piano was lost in the club’s fire.

Presently, the composer-singer is finishing a radio play musical titled Philly Cuzz and The Pirates of Doo Wop Lagoon – A Tale Of The Jersey Devil. The project includes original film music for drama and narration along with original songs and a few cover tunes. Some Doo Wop online magazines are calling a new song from the show – “Then They Wonder Why” – the most exciting doo wop song since The Capri’s “Morse Code Of Love.”

Philly Cuzz Battaglia – Beach, Pop, Doo Wop, R&B, Christmas, Film music, Instrumentals

STYLES
Jazz, Cool Jazz, Orchestral Jazz, Easy Listening, Contemporary Jazz, Nuevision Jazz

INFLUENCES
Quincy Jones, Grover Washington Jr, The Crusaders, Yanni, EWF, James Brown, John Williams, George Duke, George Clinton

CONTACT
E.L. Mahon nuevisionjazz@comcast.net
www.Nuevisionjazz.com

HOMETOWN
Aurora, Colorado

ARTIST INFORMATION
Raised on cornbread, greens and fried chicken, this country boy has come full circle. Fargo, Arkansas is home but now he calls Colorado his ‘back home’ spot. After living in Hawaii “again” from 1999 to 2003, and basically calling it quits with his music career, he began writing again in 2003 thanks in part to a birthday party early that year in Hawaii at the home of one of his long time friends and musician buddies.The focus now is on his own genre of music appropriately named, “NueVision Jazz Jazz/Nuevision Jazz Orchestral”. Classically trained on oboe and credited with being one of the youngest members and the first black member of The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13, E.L. retired from ALL performing including [playing saxes and keyboards] back in 1991 after nearly 30 years and now enjoys his time with his wife Debra. Between 1976-1991 E.L. was Bandleader/Manager of several Top 40/R&B Bands performing in the U.S., Hawaii, Guam, The Phillipines, Korea, Japan, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, Guantanamo Bay Cuba and Panama. His bands have opened for Roy Ayers, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Bobby Blue Bland, Syl Johnson, Lou Rawls, Chaka Kahn, The Guess Who, and numerous other groups during the 70′s & 80′s. He has come out of retirement to play saxes on his compositions. The jazz he writes is not mainstream jazz, but is a combination of many aspects of the jazz genre with a unique twist. The music moves the soul and enlightens the mind. This is his passion!