About Max Vasquez

A composer since 1978, Max Vasquez embraces all styles of music with a keen instinct for the nuances of each genre he excels in. At the age of nine, he performed with choirs, in musicals and plays, taught himself how to read and write music by the time he was 13. Legendary giant Doc Severinsen was amazed and encouraged him to pursue music: upon having looked over Max's first orchestral jazz arrangement for Jazz orchestra, it astounded him that Max was only sixteen when he wrote it! By age 14 he worked professionally playing trumpet in horn sections of bands all over L.A. and bass with members of punk band Verbal Abuse, whom Rodney Bingenheimer loved He also played with Black Flag members Sam and Henry and met and hung out with The Doors’ Ray Manzarek and John Doe of X and others at the Whiskey Agogo. He is somewhere in the mosh pit shots from Penelope Spheeris' "Fall and Decline of Western Civilization-The Punk Years". In 1984, Swedish Eagol played his demo tape on KROQ when it was easier to give cool DJs your band's tape without needing to sign a mile of legal stuff! With further training from some of the leading jazz educators/studio-men in Los Angeles, Max went on to play and study with Gary Foster, Clare Fischer, Alan Broadbent, Bobby Bradford, Freddie Hubbard, and even wrote for the Count Basie Orchestra! Dick Grove School of Music and Berklee College of Music taught him the art of writing/arranging and recording engineering and publishing/legal aspects of the music industry, respectfully, and Max and his colleagues were among the first pioneers in MIDI and Electronic music.
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