I recently made a trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras and I had the great pleasure to play some music with my Suegro (father-in-law) Sr. Benito Alonzo and his great friend and wonderful Bajero Sr. Alejandro Galindo. They know a "monton" de songs in the Latin American traditional vein, and they gave me the great opportunity to play a set with them in the afternoon out at Benito's farm which is about a two-hour drive into the mountains from Tegucigalpa. I was given this opportunity back in 2002 when I visited, but I have since learned how to play this music pretty...

You Are the One by Jerry Carr Album: This Must Be Heaven Label: Cherie Records (a division of Atlantic Records) Year released: 1981 Producer: William Talbert Executive Producer: Norton Stern p> This one has THE BOMB horn section on it -- produced by Billy Talbert, horns arranged by Hugh J. Hitchcock ©1981 Cherie Records, Detroit This Must Be Heaven - Jerry Carr (©1981 Cherie Records, Detroit) Personnel: Keyboards: Billy Talbert Drums: Leslie Carter Bass: Larry Austin / Jerry Carr Guitars: Bruce Nazarian David Myles Percussion: Carl (Butch) Small Larry Fratangelo Kenny Michalik Harp: Rochelle Martinez Moilleseaux Backgd Vocals: Tyrone Steel Joyce Bowden Jerry Carr Sax/Flute: Pete Khan Trombone/Flute: Sherm Mitchell Sax/Flute: David Reinstein Sax/Alto: John Littlejohn Trumpets: Al Bailey Bill Lucas Brandon Cooper Horn Arrangements: Hugh J. Hitchcock (Captain Jarvis) Recorded...

International composer and producer Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock has just released his new pop album, "Funkmeister". The CD is hailed as the flagship release of Hitchcock's new record company, Funkatology Records LLC. "Funkmeister" combines funk, dance, Motown, world beat, neo-soul and Caribbean beats with a colorfully produced mix of some of the world's most advanced talents. Miami, FL October 25 2009 -- International composer and producer Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock has just released his new pop album, Funkmeister. The CD is hailed as the flagship release of Hitchcock's new record company, Funkatology Records LLC. Funkmeister combines funk, dance, Motown, world beat, neo-soul...

FUNKMEISTER was the first record I'd produced under my own name as artist. I have produced other LPs and/or have been in on the production of quite a few records, but this time, I decided I would take on the whole task of writing, arranging, recording, engineering, and producing in my own space, dependent on no one else to make any of the decisions, right or wrong. And it's taken me a while to feel comfortable with the result, but I think ultimately I set out what I had intended to do, which was to produce some good songs and...

Throwdown by Jerry Carr Album: This Must Be Heaven Label: Cherie Records (a division of Atlantic Records) Year released: 1981 Producer: William Talbert Executive Producer: Norton Stern Horn Arrangements: Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock This song is THE BOMB! I wrote the horn arrangements and produced the recording session for the horns, with Billy Talbert in the control room engineering along with Rob Martens. I LOVE the HORNS ON THIS TUNE! CHECK ME OUT!   Tags: ...

In 1992-93 I produced an album for international rock star Mike Hanopol. Americans might not know who he is, but he is considered "The Father of Pinoy Rock". Pinoy Rock is a genre of hard rock hailing from the Philippines. Mike Hanopol is as big a star in the Philippines as the Beatles were here in america. Mike had to leave the Philippines for political reasons, and he moved here to Miami to wait out the changes in his home country's regime. While he was here, he and I worked together to create what was to be his comeback album...

that's what it is -- gratuitous commercialism running rampant. But I thought I'd let you know that I have created a radio spot (rather long one at about 5 minutes in length) to promote my new CD, which is shipping now. I have decided to spare the readers of this website the constant bombardment of my self-aggrandizement, by moving the funkmeister promo to the www.funkmeister.us website, where it belongs. Now that there is both a Funkmeister CD AND a Funkmeister BAND, we now have www.funkmeister.biz for the band P. R. and www.funkmeister.us for the CD promotion. So check out...

  Hi, this is just a quick post to let everybody know about a few things going on. First, as you probably heard, my CD is about to be released. It's at the pressing plant now, and hopefully nothing will go wrong. As mentioned we are accepting pre-orders and we expect to ship on August 8. And -- everyone who buys my CD from me through this website will receive a FREE DVD of my music video! (Oh, what joy, you say.) Well I think it's pretty good anyway and will certainly provide value added, for those of you that do...

  Hello World! I figured it was about time to let you all hear some of mysongs. This catalog ranges from 1985 to the present in terms of dates the songs were written, although these tracks were produced between January of 2008 and May of 2009. But seriously folks, ain't nothin' but a groove or two. I hope you dig it. I did all the...

Throwdown by Jerry Carr Album: This Must Be Heaven Label: Cherie Records (a division of Atlantic Records) Year released: 1981 Producer: William Talbert Executive Producer: Norton Stern Horn Arrangements: Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock fyi: the coolest horn parts are in the second half of the song!!! Jerry Carr was/is a local Detroit Artist that was produced by producer Billy Talbert of Shotgun on this album "This Must Be Heaven". The album was recorded at Solid Sound studios in Ann Arbor Michigan, and I was hired by Billy to do the horn arrangements. Billy had met me through sessions with Les Harvey of Ann Arbor. For this album, I charted...

My new video has been produced and is now available for listening and viewing. It is a music video for my piece entitled "Make No Mistake". It features Jesse Jones Jr. on saxophone and Joe Collado on Latin percussion and the song will be on my upcoming CD FUNKMEISTER. the video can be viewed / listened to here What can I say about this elixir, errr... movie? Well... Jay Surrell, of videobillboards.org, the guy who did the video for me, did an excellent job of not only encapsulating my regurgitation of the last eight political years in this country (which he gleaned...

Make No Mistake composed, arranged, performed, produced and engineered by Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock audio mix remastered 7/14/09 video re-edited on 7/16/09 saxophone by Jesse Jones Jr. Latin percussion by Joe Collado Video by Jay Surrell Original CD artwork by Olavo Machado Neto What can I say about this elixir, errr... movie? Well... Jay Surrell, of videobillboards.org, the guy who did the video for me, did an excellent job of not only encapsulating my regurgitation of the last eight political years in this country (which he gleaned from the music itself) but he also took it several steps further and added some very nice touches, like the sheep running one...

I am not kidding you, it's the Gospel truth. Iggy Pop was my camp couselor. His specialty was turtle-catching, in a rowboat. He wasn't known by the name Iggy Pop in those days, however. Back then he was just Jim Osterberg. Both he and his father "Jimmy" worked at the day camp my mother sent me to. I was not raised in a rich household. However, we would not be classified as poor. My mother worked an office job and my father paid child support payments. And when the summer came along, my mother had enough money to get me out from underfoot...

Thelonius Fonk featuring Ronrico Morris ok Ron you can quit cryin' now   [RONRICO: If yer readin' this man, I want you to know the only reason I wrote it is because I love you and I miss you bro. We used to throw down some serious sh&t.] So what's all this "Quit Cryin" insanity all about? Well... back in the day I used to hang out with this guy named RonRico ______. Ron, if yer out there man, get in touch. RonRico is the one who actually brought that phrase into the mainstream of my conciousness. What a personality. Ron was this...

When my father died last year, it sort of put a whole new perspective on my life. When I saw the writeup on him in the New York Times, and all the many others, and how they listed all his accomplishments, I sort of realised how I hadn't ever done the same thing for myself... just sort of plodding along doing what I do... which is interesting in itself. But I realised, I have this entire, gigantic body of work that I've done, that's never seen the light of day for one reason or another. (I will get into the deeper...

I received my new copy of Captain Jarvis today... the record was not released on CD, Noel died in 1994 ya know... the only copy I had was my original vinyl disc from 1979. I used it to make an mp3 a couple of months ago, but there was still an annoying skip that's been there forever, that I wasn't able to get rid of, so I had a copy of the album digitally re-mastered by a professional service. I've ripped it to mp3, and WOW, let me tell you... I think that is one nice sounding piece of music......

Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock: composer, producer, writer, lyricist, arranger, performer, artist, record executive, software engineer Current projects include: the new Funkmeister CD, and a new album for Jesse Jones Jr. Hugh has worked on stage or in the studio with the following people of note: Anita Baker (famed songstress, "Sweet Love") Luis Resto (producer, Eminem) Stephen Bray (writer, Madonna) Belita Woods (vocalist, P-Funk, Brainstorm "Lovin' is Really My Game") David Lee Chong (synthesizers/writer, P-Funk, "Atomic Dog") Larry Fratangelo (percussionist, P-Funk "One Nation Under a Groove") Lamont Johnson (bass/vocals, Brainstorm, "This Must Be Heaven") Norma Jean Bell (saxophone, Frank Zappa, Santana, Mahavishnu) Kashif (writer, producer "Love Come Down") Carolyn Crawford (vocalist, Bohannon "Get on...

I would like to welcome everyone to my new web site. I figured it's about time I set something up like this for myself. Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock jamming on a sunday afternoon   If you would like to hear some of my music, please click on the portrait of me on the lefthand side of the page. Hugh Jarvis Hitchcock (right) with the Martian Entropy Band circa 1974   note: to actually hear the music, you will need a functioning audio device [sound card] on your computer, some speakers plugged in [turned on and turned up loud] and the appropriate version of flash...

I went down to Florida with my Thai girlfriend in May of 1982. We both got homesick after a while, so we came back up to Michigan in January of 1983. After returning to Michigan, I scored a gig with Norma Jean Bell and the All-Stars, who had a house gig at a club in Detroit called Axel's, on Eight-Mile Road -- the same Eight Mile Road that Eminem named his movie after. (I had some gigs in the same city where Eminem grew up -- Waterford township -- and I've worked with Eminem's producer, Luis Resto! But that is...