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Abraham Laboriel is a world renowned bassist and the founder of the band KOINONIA. He was born and raised in Mexico City where he received his earliest musical training from his father, a gifted guitarist and composer. His first recording was at age 10 as part of a "rock and roll" group called "Los Traviesos". After performing in Mexico thru his teen years as both a musician and an actor, he moved to Boston where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the Berklee School of Music in 1972. During that time he recorded with faculty member, famed vibraphonist Gary Burton. He traveled with Johnny Mathis, Michel Legrand, and Henry Mancini and moved to Los Angeles in 1976 to begin a very diverse and fruitful studio recording career.

He has performed and recorded with many jazz artists including George Benson, Larry Carlton, the Crusaders, Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Grusin, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Al Jarreau, John Klemmer, Manhattan Transfer, Joe Pass, Joe Sample, Lalo Shifrin, Diane Schuur, Sara Vaughan, and Joe Zawinul. He recorded with Lee Ritenour, Ernie Watts, and Alex Acuna in a band called "Friendship" and has continued to record and travel with Lee and Dave Grusin for GRP Records. He also has been much in demand for work with artists like Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, Jeffrey Osborne, Chaka Khan, Robbie Robertson, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Loggins, Ruben Blades and countless others. He was in fact voted by his peers in the LA Chapter of NARAS as the "Most Valuable Player" in the Bass chair for the three years in a row, joining Ray Brown and Chuck Domanico in that honor.

Greg Mathieson was born 2/25/50 in Los Angeles Ca. and has been a native of Southern California his whole life. He started piano lessons at the age of 10, then switched to the trumpet at age 14 so he could participate in school activities. During Junior High and High school he continued to play the piano and took harmony lessons from Ken Hanna who was a arranger with Stan Kenton. In 1968 Greg went to Valley College (in the San Fernando Valley) where he switched back to piano andjoined the "A" jazz band which won the California State Championship both years he attended. In 1970 he attended CSUN for 1 year.



At this point he decided to become a professional musician. From 1971 – 1974 Greg played casuals (wedding receptions, parties etc.) then a series of club gigs including the Bla Bla Club as a duo with Al Jarreau, the Play Boy Club lounge in Hollywood Ca. for a year and a supper club across the street from A&M Records called the ETC with Maxine Weldon. Greg replaced Edgar Winter in White Trash, cut an album with them, and played the Whiskey a Go Go. Greg was in Al Jarreau's band the night Al got his record deal at the Troubadour club. At the end of 1974 -1976 he traveled with Helen Reddy around the world and from 1976-1978 he traveled with Olivia Newton-John. In 1977-78 Greg started his own fusion band and started playing at the Baked Potato and also at this time met Larry Carlton, with whom he recorded four albums and Greg still plays with Larry "live".



In 1978 Greg made a commitment to stop traveling and become a part of the vibrant L.A. studio scene. Not only did he become one of the top keyboard session players but also become one of the top arrangers, including String and Horn arrangements. It was at this time he played and arranged his first hits with Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, the sound track for Midnight Express and Umberto
Tozzi in Europe.


In the early 1980's he tried his hand at producing and immediately had hits with Tony Basil's "Mickey" and Laura Branigan's "Gloria". For the rest of the 80's, while he continued to arrange and produce records, he also made two solo albums. In 1981 he recorded a live album at the Baked Potato with two members of the group Toto, Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro, along with Pop's Popwell
from the Jazz Crusaders. In 1986 he recorded a studio album on Head First Records featuring Carlos Vega, Michael Landau, Abraham Laboriel and Luis Conte. In the

1990's Greg spent most of his time traveling and producing in Europe. In the last five years Greg has recorded 3 solo albums, traveled with Faith Hill and continues to arrange, write and produce.

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