Primarily self-taught, Keyboardist Neil Alexander was performing, composing and arranging by age 14. In 2007 with his contemporary electric jazz ensemble “NAIL” he released “Tugging At The Infinite”, his 5th CD as a bandleader. He does session work as both player and programmer, and has composed more than 100 works for small ensembles of various instrumentation. He has received grants from meet the composer and the NYS Council for the Arts; performed 20th Century works by Stravinsky, Cage, and others; taught music clinics at both high school and college level in modern music technologies; produced concerts in both small venues and large outdoor settings; and done sound design and music concrete (including assembling sound effect libraries and live tape manipulation). He has composed for independent films and/or been musical director for Modern Dance and Alternative Theater companies and toured for ten years with the notoriously successful Pink Floyd Tribute "The Machine". In addition to NAIL, he performs solo acoustically or electronically (as “Logical Oscillator”), and has a performing ambient music group called the “Inner Music Ensemble” . He also plays with many local jazz & blues artists. He and his wife Nita Rae operate a small recording studio in upstate NY and maintain a private recording company, “Pdog Records”. On the web at www.pdogrecords.com, or www.nailmusic.com.
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