Geoff Stradling

Who is Geoff Stradling?

Geoff Stradling is an American pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger and orchestrator. He has recorded with Ernestine Anderson, Ladd McIntosh, Kenny Goldberg, Joe Gallardo, and Jane's Addiction on Ritual de lo Habitual.

He is a noted jazz composer, having won the International Association for Jazz Education national composition contest in 1974 with his composition "The Great White Also", a literary reference to H. Allen Smith, published by the C. L. Barnhouse Company company. Two of his newer works are featured on the Wayne Bergeron CD entitled Plays Well With Others: "Samba Brassiliero", and "Scheherazade", a re-working of the third movement of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's work.

Stradling's music has been featured in films, commercials and on television, most notably in the feature film Ray of Sunshine and on Entertainment Tonight, the American Music Awards, and in the films Flushed Away, The Number 23 and Shrek the Third.

His debut CD as a leader Les Is Mo' was released on January 16, 2007 on Origin Records.