December 3rd, 2006
Inside Musicast recently published a 40 minute audio interview with David Garfield. New albums from Karizma and Los Lobotomys are in the works - head for insidemusicast.com for the download (18.4Mb).

November 23rd, 2006
Creatchy's Corner updated. Check out Rehearsals.com for a video with the amazing Farah Zala, featuring David on keys. Creatchy also got a MySpace page and a YouTube channel.

October 24th, 2006
Creatchy's Corner updated with a new post from David: 'There has been a lot going on and I have wanted to share some of it with you and finally have taken the time to jot down a few notes..'


October 9th, 2006
Check out this post from Bobby Gladd's blog. You'll find some nice pictures from Saturday night's David Garfield gig in Vegas, featuring Alex Ligertwood and Michael O'Neill, among others..


August17th, 2006
An excerpt from the LEN press release:

During the Championships, LEN (the governing body of 50 national European Swimming Federations) hosted a Gala Dinner in the National Gallery, remembering the 80 years passed from the first Continental title races....

...During the Gala Dinner also the official Anthem of LEN has been presented and played live on stage by the author David Garfield. The tune is a 4 min. 11 sec. piece entitled 'Pool of Friendship', reflecting on the main messages carried by sport, that is: love, understanding, friendship and peace amongst the Nations.

David Garfield is a 50 year old from the United States, a World-renowned keyboard artist, producer and composer. Be it jazz, rock, funk or world beat - he is the creative force behind the production of many internationally acclaimed recordings.

Apart of being an exceptional session musician (with Cher, Spinal Tap, The Rippingtons, Larry Carlton, Michael Bolton, The Blues Brothers, Brenda Russell, Rick Brown or Eros Ramazzotti to name a few), he has his own solo or band projects (Karizma and Los Lobotomys) and runs ongoing music relationships with George Benson (currently as Music Director), Boz Scaggs and Natalie Cole as well.

The LEN Anthem, 'Pool of Friendship' has been written, produced and arranged by David Garfield. Recorded and mixed by Steve Sykes at Stage & Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA and credited with: David Garfield - keyboards, Steve Tavaglione - saxophones and EWI, James Harrah guitars, John Peña bass, Gregg Bissonette drums and Michito Sanchez percussion. The LEN Anthem together with a 30sec. LEN television jingle (trailer) will be played from now on at every and each LEN Event, at the competition site and by the start and finish of the TV broadcast sessions.


July 22nd, 2006
Four new audio files from the Los Lobotomys 2005 gigs, recorded in Copenhagen on October 13th, 2005, was added to the media section. Check out these unofficial recordings of the tunes Ire, Donna, Big Bone and Tune For Tony.

April 19th, 2006
Media section updated with three video clips from David Garfield's 'The Retro Jazz Quintet' DVD, recorded live in 2003 with Larry Klimas, Walt Fowler, Ernest Tibbs and Oscar Seaton.

April 8th, 2006
New audio files online from the Los Lobotomys 2005 tour. Listen to seven 'unofficial' live clips featuring David Garfield, Lenny Castro, Brandon Fields, John Peña, Chad Wackerman and Søren Reiff Jr.

March 27th, 2006
John Kelman from AllAboutJazz.com recently reviewed 'The State Of Things', check it out here. Also, the media section has been updated with a few clips from this release.

March 18th, 2006
Here's a new gallery section with images from various live sessions, studio sessions and interviews. The first two galleries were shot in Copenhagen on the Los Lobotomys 2005 tour.

February 11th, 2006
Los Lobotomys drummer Chad Wackerman just moved back to L.A. after 10 years in Australia. He played with many of the guitar greats and he even used to sub-in for Jeff Porcaro back in the 80s. Check out this new interview.

January 20th, 2006
Bass player and longtime Los Lobotomys member John Peña has been developing a production company for the last five years, but he's now starting to play live again. We talked to John after the last gig of the Los Lobotomys 2005 tour. Read more.

January 6th, 2006
Zan Stewart wrote an article about David Garfield, published in L.A. Times back in January 1992. A few days later David was scheduled to play with the David Garfield Quintet at the Room Upstairs at Le Cafe, Los Angeles.

December 20th, 2005
Karizma, with David Garfield, Michael Landau, Vinnie Colaiuta and Neil Stubenhaus, embarked on a European tour in 2000 as 'Rizma 2000'. From the archives, here's a previously unpublished interview with Karizma.

November 26th, 2005
'Tribute To Jeff - Revisited' has been released by Creatchy Records. A few tunes from the 1997 version of the album were updated and corrected, and with new mixes and two additional cuts, the album was also remastered.

November 15th, 2005
'Seasons of Change' by David Garfield and Friends is now available from Creatchy Records. The acoustic latin jazz album was originally recorded live in 1992, and it features David Garfield on keyboards and piano, Abraham Laboriel on electric and acoustic bass, and Luis Conte on percussion.

November 12th, 2005
The 8th Annual Carlos Vega Memorial Birthday Concert will take place at Musicians Institute on December 3rd, 2005, featuring Chad Wackerman, Gregg Bissonette, Chase Porcaro Duddy, John Peña, Mike Porcaro, Paul Jackson Jr., Luis Conte, Ritchie Garcia, Brandon Fields and Walt Fowler.

November 10th, 2005
Featured story David is featured on guitarist Michael O'Neill's new album 'Funky Fiesta'. David co-wrote, co-produced and co-arranged the album and played on the song "Contigo Cafe". The record also features musicians like Kenya Hathaway, Oscar Seaton, Michael White, David Witham, Dennis Chambers, Nathan East, Lenny Castro and Alphonso Johnson.

October 19th, 2005
We met David Garfield before the gig in Copenhagen to have a chat about this year's regrouping of Los Lobotomys, his current projects and the Official Bootleg. Check out the interview.

October 4th, 2005
Welcome friends and music fans! David Garfield & Creatchy Records are proud to announce the return of Los Lobotomys to Scandinavia - the first time since 1994. The Band has re-grouped with some of the original members to get back into the 'West Coast' groove sound that was the trademark of the band. Watch for more cool 'Lobotomys' happenings to come in the future now.. Keep on groovin'! - David Garfield

July 19th, 2005
Los Lobotomys played a few shows as The Lost Lobotomys in L.A in January 2005. The band has now regrouped and the 2005 version of the band will do three shows in Denmark in October.

June 24th, 2005
Los Lobotomys Official Bootleg - liner notes: These recordings were done mostly over 10 years ago and in the time that has passed so much has happened and most of all, we are all 10 years older now!! This version of the band was very tight, courageous and inspired, we had no fear and were known to throw down many an adventurous extended improvisation or even break out into another tune entirely without warning. Read more.

May 10th, 2005
Karizma's live version of 'Palladium' will be included on the new Weather Report tribute cd 'Mysterious Voyages - A Tribute to Weather Report'. The cd is available from May 24th. Check out John Kelman's review at AllAboutJazz.com.

April 28th, 2005
The Steely Dan related website Mizar 5 interviewed David before the first leg of the Karizma 30th anniversary world tour. The full interview is now online. Read more.

February 24th, 2005
There are four DVD audio projects out that David has participated in, the newest of which is the Joe Porcaro/Emil Richards "Big Band". Check out aixrecords.com. Three of these DVD's is currently offered for sale on Creatchy.com.

February 20th, 2005
Karizma 30th Anniversary Tour: The band will be performing at the Motion Blue Club (Japan) - which is part of the Blue Note chain - on April 6th to April 10th. The line-up will be David Garfield, Lenny Castro, Jimmy Johnson, Oscar Seaton, James Harrah and Larry Klimas.

February 14th, 2005
A new instructional book that David has collaborated on will be coming out this year from Hal Leonard Publishers. The book was co-written with Henry Brewer who is on the faculty at the Musicians Institute.

February 14th, 2005
'Los Lobotomys was a fun band that grew out of informal gigs at the Baked Potato organized by myself. Lenny Castro came up with the name and the original line-up was me and Lenny, Steve Lukather, Nathan East, Brandon Fields, and Jeff Porcaro. Our first album was recorded live at the Complex in Los Angeles back in 1989 and the band has gone through many changes since then.

We really haven't done much as a band since the tours of 1994. During this past time we have all been doing our own things and busy with many other projects, however, some of us want to keep the band going and keep our fans satisfied. As it turns out both Luke and Simon do not want the live CD released at this time so we are appropriately postponing its release.

We did do a 'Lost Lobotomys' reunion gig here in L.A. before NAMM show [see Creatchy.com for pictures] and it was a tremendous success. The idea behind the gig was to do some of the original Los Lobotomys material with some of the original members.The line-up was myself, Lenny Castro (percussion), John Peña (bass), Brandon Fields (sax), Chad Wackerman (drums), Kurt Dohy (guitar - from the band Potato Salad), and special guest Soren Reiff who has been playing guitar with me on my European tours in 2004. Also sitting in that night was Oscar Seaton (drums) and Darren Jonson (keyboards).
The true spirit of Los Lobotomys was always about guys sitting in and jammin' and having fun playing music for the people. Look for more cool things to come.' - David Garfield

February 10th, 2005
David has produced, arranged, and recorded a fusion instrumental cover version of "Dance, Dance, Dance" for a Japanese production company. Personnel consisted of David Garfield, John Pena (bass), Forrest Robinson (drums), Brandon Fields (sax), Paul Jackson Jr. (guitar).

February 10th, 2005
David overdubbed on two songs for a German artist named Michael Schmidt. Also appearing on the CD are drummers Joel Rosenblatt and Vinnie Colaiuta, trumpeter Judd Miller, and bassist Jimmy Haslip. His stuff is very cool and included a song called "Rizma".

February 10th, 2005
David co-wrote one song with guitarist Michael O'Neill and recorded it with him as well as several other songs for his new CD which is in the making. His CD features many members of the George Benson band as well as Lenny Castro and Airto. Also, there is a new CD out entitled "Great Voices, Great Songs" presented by the Society of Singers. David is featured on cut 18 which is a duet of Jill Scott and George Benson doing "Summertime."

January 15th, 2005
In the January 2005 issue of Modern Drummer, master drummers Vinnie Colaiuta and Gregg Bissonette are featured in the Drum Soloist department. The two recently played a demanding duet on 'Tune For Tony', a track off of David Garfield’s latest CD, Giving Back. Check out the isolated drum track for this tune here.

December 24th, 2004
Announcement from David: 'To all of the fans and supporters of "West Coast Music"... We wanted to get this music out to the listeners because we thought it was really smokin' and there had been many inquirys over the years as to when we would release some of our live recordings. Evidently there are some misunderstandings going on within the band. I sincerely hope that the members of Los Lobotomys will be able to get together and work this out amongst themselves as soon as possible. I am sorry for any bad vibes or confusion for our fans. Once again thank you very much for all of your support and Happy Holidays to all of you..'. - David Garfield