I've been a professional musician now for over 50 years. I started my career as so many of us did playing in local bands and doing the local club scene. I grew up in Buffalo NY and cut my teeth there do the local scene till around 1979 when I moved to New York City to begin my freelance career. I have worked on Broadway as a pit musician and played my share of recording sessions adding guitar to national jingles, records and numerous sessions for singer songwriters. In 1991 I moved to Nashville to pursue my writing career and doing numerous sessions again for songwriters and artists. I was honored to be a writer on the 1994 Warner Bros hit for David Ball " Thinking Problem" I earned a gold record and played acoustic and electric guitars on the record. In 2000 I relocated to Los Angeles where I currently reside to be part of the LA scene. I continued my writing out here working with various artists. In 2003 I contributed to Gary Hoey's record "Wake Up Call" by co writing 6 songs with him and supplying rhythm guitar. Other writing credits include songs used for various TV shows and in 2006 I had my first song in a movie " National Lampoons's " Cattle Call" In 2002 through the present I've been the guitarist with the band WAR ( Low Rider, Why Can't we Be Friends, Slippin' into Darkeness, to name a few ) I continue to tour and record with them. I play locally around LA and I've been an. instructor at Musician's Institute since 2005 teaching Blues, Slide Guitar and all styles of music. In 2019 I scored my first film with my co writer Dan Stein, and we're about to release our first CD under the name of BLABBERMOUTH. A cd of instrumental music based in Jazz, Blues and Rock and Roll. I'm here to shared my experience as a musician and educator .
The best in the business, wether on the stage or in classroom.
I've been blessed to have him as an instructor at MI for most of my stay there. Stuart Ziff is knowledgeable, skilled and brutally honest and straight to the point. His experience in the stage and in classroom is unrivaled. Some guys can play, some guys can teach and few excel at both. His tone is always right and his parts always serve the song and support the band.
