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About John Johnson Jazz Practice Loops was mostly created by John Johnson of 12VoltArts, LLC. Some content in the research section was borrowed from Marc Sabatella, a jazz pianist, painter and educator in Colorado. He has a website where he has some pretty cool recordings worth checking out. I also have a website of a recording I did, you can find that here. Here's my official bio for anyone bored enough to read it: John Johnson has been involved in music in some shape or form since he was eight years old. His father, a jazz trumpeter, taught him the fundamentals of composing and arranging in a jazz context at an early age. He has evolved his art form into more than just jazz, but has mainly stuck to his roots and connected to the idiom that fostered him. Johnson began as a trumpet player at a young age, but in high school was encouraged by a teacher to switch to bass. His interest in piano also grew about that time, and soon he was playing with both jazz and rock groups around the Northern California area where he grew up. In college he relocated to the San Francisco Bay area, where playing with local jazz musicians further developed his distinctive voice and character on both instruments. His first studio release "Electrode" served as a soundtrack to an interactive project released in 1997. Other work during the 1990s and early 2000s for film, interactive soundtrack, and advertising work appears on his compilation disc, "12voltarts Corporate Audio Demonstration - Volume 1." In 2004, Johnson wrote and produced "Songs for My Father," an homage to the father figures in his life.