JOHN
JUSTER
loves life and loves music
By music, I add music to many types, styles and feels, with live instrumental, in any various ensembles including accompanying DJs. From house music, deep, jack, techno, electro & down tempo, also use the UpperHand, conducting gestures used for today's expressive music. (see the UpperHand.)
In recording sessions, lounges, bars, music venues, night clubs and lofts, I solo, accompany, support, affect, improvise, harmonize & texturize in music. I call it communicating music using either alto, tenor or soprano saxophones, keyboards or vocally.
Music has been in my life all my life. Playing saxophone since I was 14, the piano is yet my first instrument, starting at 6. With a singer/songwriter/composer mom in the family, our home was often filled with piano compositions and her voice. This had a great effect on how music impacted my life.
With studies in jazz composition at Berklee in Boston (87-91), then off to New York city working at a multimedia production company until in '96 moved to Los Angeles, where my musical endeavors included composing film & documentary scores, recording live & in studio sessions, and playing in a variety of musical styles including brazilian, jazz, acid jazz, funk, pop, r'nb & rock'n roll. A member of a DJ/MC/LIVE pop & hip-hop dance troop in the late '90s, I also played and recorded with Tom Freund's & his band, and subsequently in bands called the Liberators, Zoomer, and D'Santi, playing throughout Southern California. Yet, it was in 1999 that I first discovered what playing with a DJ would be like, impacting in me a new and more stimulating way of expressing music.
It was Friday night every week with DJ
Jason Pursley at 12th Street in
Manhattan Beach, CA, after which found a great underground nightlife
from
which made many great friends, that since 1999, took on helping
transform music by way of accompanying DJs in night clubs and
afterhours. Working with talented
DJs & music producers every since, from Los Angeles to Montreal and
all over the world, I came to realize that respecting music (hence
respecting music artists) is the only course of action to
manifesting the best musical shows, events and parties affecting
everyone's lives, and that's the whole point, isn't it?
With pleasure & delight,
John Juster
Updates
Summer into fall 2009
As it is, we're at it slow and steady. My time has been
on projects in all sorts of realms, seeing that having a skill is
only part of one's experience in life, having a vision and
creating it into reality being another, we hold responsibilities and
duties differently each of us. Up or down, on or off, constantly
at it, it is coming together... as one. So keep dancing, be positive,
and keep enthusiastic! Updates to come, of all kinds!
Summer/Fall/Winter 2008
Enjoying day and night life in Montreal all summer long, I had
opportunities of playing at parties like Nova, Flava, Dirty, Lost
Tribe,
Kinjo, Deepsy, Blondish and more, at venues like StereoBar, Stereo,
Terrace
Bonsecours, Academy, Salon Daome, with DJs and bands such as DAV,
Godfather Dee, Michael Terzian, Uzi, Jojo Flores, Vivi-Ann, Jeff
Fontaine,
x-Cube, Christian Pronovost, Alex Bopp, JLove, Simon B.,
Joey Paradise, Mateo, Miles Moore, Jeff Gold, Avrum Gold, Patrick
Nicolas, Kamaka, Pat Boogie, Luc Raymond...
June 23rd to July 1st,
2008
Performed in Hurghada, Egypt, with DJ Jojo Flores, keyboardist Jeremy
Ellis and percussionist Leticia Manfil, as well as in Cairo at the
Cairo Jazz Club.
March 28th, 2008
An important work I've dedicated myself toward during these last few
years has reached its time and place to share, give,
release. The website and its content are up. Taking more
than I knew to reach where I now know, without further
ado, go to wearebeings.com. (Oct 13th update: The site is down
until further notice. I apologize.)
Bonjour !
Pas évident traduire de l'anglais en français. Une version française de ces pages suivront bientôt. Merci.
KERRI CHANDLER, w/guest appearance by John Juster at DEEP in Los Angeles
Sunday Sept 17, 2006
FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC, UNITE!
"Work
and play, that’s okay. We
can do it every day!” That could be a daily cheer for people
in music. Here are three questions constantly faced by ALL
who are in music. “What
do you do”,
“what do you play”, and “what kind of
music”. I don’t know about you, but I’m
having difficulty knowing what to answer anymore, and I believe
I’m not alone. I’m faced to sculpt an answer best
fitting the person asking, or so I thought.
Do you understand this? If not, look up. Think outside the box. Visit www.respectmusic.net for more "outside the box" perspective, for the love of music.