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Bruce works as a live performer and session musician with a wide range of artists including his own jazz/blues ensemble, New Orleans R&B quintet the Mattson Medeiros Band, funky Texas blues artist Willie J Laws, Allman Brothers Band drummer and founding member Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, country artist Keith Urban, pianist Chuck Leavell, New Orleans R&B saxophonist Dr. Charles Neville, soul blues singer Toni Lynn Washington, Maceo Parker/Sting drummer Kenwood Dennard, and many others. Bruce began his career in music as a guitarist, joining his first band at the age of 12 and playing professionally by the age of 13. Inspired by players like Nicky Hopkins, Gregg Allman, Chuck Leavell and Herbie Hancock, Bruce shifted his focus to piano and organ in his mid-teens. He studied piano, composition, and music theory privately throughout high school. In his early 20s he came under the tutelage of jazz pianist and alto saxophonist Fred Holovnia, developing his skills in the true trial-by-fire tradition by serving as pianist in Holovnia’s bebop-style jazz big band. In 1988 Bruce entered the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied piano and composition. He played both piano and guitar in each of the school’s primary performance halls during this time. Following NEC Bruce studied extensively with jazz/blues Hammond organ and piano master Bruce Katz whom he credits with transforming him into a proper and useful musician, as well as veteran Muddy Waters pianist Dave Maxwell. Bruce's album of original New Orleans-influenced music, Crescent City Swagger, was released in early 2015, and features the talents of Dr. Charles Neville, Amadee Castenell, Willie J Laws, Tony Medeiros, Doug James, and other frequent stage mates. Bruce co-leads the roots/New Orleans R&B band the Mattson Medeiros Band with guitarist/vocalist Tony Medeiros, in which he gets to dig into one of his great loves - the full ten-fingered, rolling piano styles of the great New Orleans piano wizards such as James Booker, Professor Longhair, and Mac Rebennack. Their album Qualified is a collection of iconic NOLA funk and R&B tunes that had become staples of their live shows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6628d119278f3a77dac0dc/1602416147582-K9CHYGX3PB9K8RTK27TA/22347_107399645941916_3127364_n.jpg Bio https://www.brucemattson.com/qualified-details-1 daily 0.75 2020-09-20