David Arnold Band was founded by drummer David Arnold in late 2006 under the name Street Jam as a side project to play a few engagements he was contacted to form a band to play. Street Jam was David Arnold on drums, Corey O’Brien on Sax, Gary Pace, Piano and Nathan Reiber on bass. The group played a couple events at the end of 2006 and didn’t expect anything to come more of the band. But, in early 2007 David started to be contacted to have Street Jam perform at more events. Throughout the spring, summer and fall of 2007 the band played several events, at local city Art shows and at a local music school where David taught drum lessons, they even earned a spot at the Mount Clemens Bath City Festival. After taking several months off to endeavor in other projects David felt it was time to put a solid line up together to continue with the standards and also begin to write original songs and have begun recording and hope to have a full length cd out in 2008. So, with a new name and a bit of a new sound by adding guitarist Chad Koening he is prepared to bring his band out and perform on a much more regular basis than what he had thought in 2006.
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Meet the band.
David Arnold (Drums, Percussion) - David began playing drums when he was 12 years old. He grew up playing in his Church praise band until he was 16 then he began playing with various bands in the Detroit Metro are along with playing with several other church praise bands. He began studying jazz drumming at the age of 20 with Dan Maslanka, a professor at Oakland University, who he studied with for approximately 4 years. David has about 20 years professional playing experience, live and recording as well as 10 years of teaching drum lessons. He continues to keep a busy schedule with David Arnold Band as well as local Christian artist Midst of Lions and continues various work as a session drummer.
Corey O’Brien (Saxophone) - Began playing saxophone at age 11 through the public schools band program. Corey has always had a love for jazz/blues/gospel music and pursued these areas. Played lead alto in high school jazz band and was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to Wayne State University.
While at WSU, Corey played with various small groups as well as with the Big Band ensembles. He studied privately with the late Detroit jazz and Motown legend Larry Nozero and professors Chris Collins and Russ Miller of the Sun Messengers.
Although his main instrument is the Alto Saxophone, throughout his career he has played various instruments including piano, guitar, bass, drums, flute, and clarinet.
Corey received his Bachelors of Music in 2003 and since has been performing locally, teaching privately, composing music, arranging charts, and directing the music ministry at Calvary Apostolic Church.
Chad Keonig (Guitar) – Chad began playing guitar at the age of 14 by learning rock songs and began learning blues songs. Around the age of 21 Chad discovered jazz and jazz guitar and began to learn the style. Chad in his life so far has only had a handful of lessons from local guitar teacher, Ken Andreoni and also spent time learing on his own by gong through music books and by playing with several local musicians.
Nathan Reiber (Stand up and electric bass) - Nate Reiber, the youngest member of the band, started playing the electric bass guitar at the age of 13. He was taught by a few different musicians but had little interest in jazz music at the time. Later during his sophomore year he started playing the double bass when his music teacher, Joshua James, insisted that he learned to play it for the Bishop Foley Concert Band. He first learned by playing pizzicatto and than later adopted Andrew Lloyd as is double bass teacher. Andrew Lloyd set Nathan up with a few gigs, but hadn’t been a member of a jazz band until his teacher suggested he played with Corey and David in 2006.
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