2015. June 6th. Dr. John with musical director Sarah Morrow (Trombone), Pete Sears (Bass), Vernon Black (Guitar), David Rokeach (Drums), and Annie Sampson (Back-up vocals). Private high ticket price Benefit for Wavy Gravy’s Camp Winnarainbow.

By Pete |

Just had a fan­tas­tic gig play­ing bass with Dr. John, Sarah Mor­row, David Rokeach, Ver­non Black, and my old Stone­ground band-mate Annie Samp­son. What an amaz­ing piano player…and gui­tar play­er. I’ve always loved his play­ing, but live he’s some­thing else. Espe­cial­ly when your inter­act­ing with him on stage. All pro­ceeds for this ben­e­fit go to […]

David Nelson Band Birthday Tour

By Pete Sears Crew |

David Nel­son Band with spe­cial guests Moon­al­ice will be tour­ing Ore­gon June, 2015! June 10, 2015 — Jack­son Well­springs, Ash­land, OR June 11, 2015 — Jack­son Well­springs, Ash­land, OR June 12, 2015 — Alham­bra The­atre, Port­land, OR June 13, 2015 — WOW Hall, Eugene, OR

2015. “Shades of Brown” Los Cenzontles & Andre Thierry, featuring David Hidalgo. Pete Sears on Hammond B3 and Electric Piano.

By Pete |

For gen­er­a­tions, Zyde­co and Mex­i­can music have thrived side by side in Rich­mond, Cal­i­for­nia; home to Cre­oles from Louisiana and Chi­canos with deep roots in Cal­i­for­nia and Mex­i­co. Now, in “Shades of Brown”, Andre Thier­ry and Los Cen­zon­tles unite their ances­tral voic­es in cel­e­bra­tion. Joined by the music leg­end David Hidal­go, they cre­ate a joyful […]

2014. “Once in a Blue Moon” David Nelson Band. Studio Recording. California. DNB Records.

By Pete |

2014. David Nel­son Band. Live in stu­dio record­ing. Most­ly at Laugh­ing Tiger Stu­dios, San Rafael, Cal­i­for­nia. Pete Sears played bass, and wrote and sung one of the songs, “Come Away”. Ari Rios engi­neer. Pro­duced by Bar­ry Sless. Link to the songs off the David Nel­son Band album, “Once In a Blue Moon”, includ­ing “Come Away” writ­ten and […]

2013. (1966) “You’ve Got To Earn It”. Fleur De Lys.

By Pete |

2013. (1966) “You’ve Got To Earn It”. Fleur De Lys. Acid Jazz Records just released this CD of a band I played piano in for a while back in 1966, Eng­land. I’m sec­ond from the left on the cov­er pho­to. Singer, gui­tarist Phil Sawyer stand­ing in the back sec­ond from the right next to drum­mer Keith […]

2013. “David Hayes”. David Hayes.

By Pete |

2013. “David Hayes”. David Hayes. This is a com­pi­la­tion CD with tracks tak­en from David’s solo albums made over the years. David has played bass with many bands, includ­ing being Van Morrison’s main bass play­er for many years. He recent­ly decid­ed to leave Europe and spend more time at his home on the west coast of […]

May 2013. “Red River”. Los Cenzontles. Pete Sears, keyboards.

By Pete |

May 2013. “Red Riv­er”. Los Cen­zon­tles. Pete Sears, key­boards. From the brand new full-length vinyl album PURO JAM…with David Hidal­go, elec­tric gui­tar and guiro. David Bautista, har­mon­i­ca. Pete Sears, key­boards. Eugene Rodriguez, steel string gui­tar. Hugo Arroyo, bass. Sage Bag­gott, drums. Los Cen­zon­tles proud­ly announces it first full-length vinyl album PURO JAM fea­tur­ing instru­men­tal jams with […]

2012. “Regeneration” Los Cenzontles. Pete Sears, guest keyboards.

By Pete |

2012. “Regen­er­a­tion” Los Cen­zon­tles. I played some key­boards on this amaz­ing album. After many many months of song writ­ing, record­ing, mix­ing, mas­ter­ing, and every­thing else that goes into pro­duc­ing a record, Los Cen­zon­tles is excit­ed to announce the release of their newest album, Regen­er­a­tion. Regen­er­a­tion cel­e­brates the emerg­ing Lati­no-boom youth gen­er­a­tion by fus­ing Lati­no roots music […]

2012. April. DVD release of Jorma Kaukonen’s 70th birthday. Pete Sears played piano on the second day. December 4th.

By Pete |

2012. April. DVD release of Jor­ma Kauko­nen’s 70th birth­day. Pete Sears played piano on the sec­ond day. Decem­ber 4th. 2010. Decem­ber 3th-4th. “Jor­ma Kauko­nen’s 70th Birth­day Cel­e­bra­tion” at the Bea­con The­atre, N.Y.C. Hot Tuna flew me out to New York City to join them as a guest on the sec­ond day of a two day birthday […]

2011. “The Storm That Swept Mexico”. Documentary Film by Ray Telles and Paradigm Productions.

By Pete |

2011. “The Storm That Swept Mex­i­co”. I wrote and record­ed the orig­i­nal score for this doc­u­men­tary on the “Mex­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion”. Aired on 300 PBS sta­tions nation­wide, as well as film fes­ti­vals and major Uni­ver­si­ties Direct­ed by Ray Telles. and pro­duced by Ray Telles and Ken Rabin. Par­a­digm Pro­duc­tions. I co-pro­­duced the Tra­di­tion­al music with Pancho […]