Owner, Producer, Engineer, Artist
TrineArc Music Record Label
Producer/Engineer
Saurus Studio
Instructor of Music, Jazz Harmony, Jazz Band Director, African American Music History
Wheaton College
Lecturer, Saxophone, Jazz Studies, African American History
University of Massachusetts
HOBBIES
Music, Performance, Education, Jazz, Bebop, Avante Garde, R&B, Soul, Recording, Producing, Engineering Digital Audio, MIDI, Virtual Sampling, Web Design, Digital Photography, Digital Video, Digital Video Editing, Digital Photo Restoration, Computers, Computer Repair
MUSIC
Jazz, Jazz Avant-Garde, Modern Jazz, Smooth Jazz, R&B, Soul, Funk, Pop
BOOKS
Schillenger System of Music Composition, Bird Lives
ABOUT ME
Rick Britto is a well known jazz musician from the New England area.
Rick's latest recording projects include: "For Your Love, "Conversations with Erik & I", Trine: " +1" and "In The Sky" all released on the new TrineArc Music label in the last two years from 2009-2011.
Previous releases on other labels include: The Lord's Orphans: "Holy City", Trine: "Politics", Andy McWain Ensemble: "Resemblance" ," One O'clock Jump Live"
As a musician, Rick has performed with many artists and groups both nationally and locally including Karl Berger, Santi Debriano, Harold Jones, Freddie Redd, Kate McGarry, One O'clock Jump, Royal Hartigan, Wes Brown, Armsted Christian, Jim Robitaille, Semenya McCord, Marcelle Gauvin, John Harrison, Chris Poudrier, Bruce Gertz, Dave Zinno, Herb King, Kenny Wensel, Lou Columbo, Frank Wilkins, Alon Yavnai and numerous other musicians.
He has been double billed with such jazz notables as Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Rosemary Clooney, Dick Johnson, Dave McKenna, The Artie Shaw Band, The Buddy Rich Band, and Count Basie's Orchestra.
In the world of popular music, Rick has performed with many R&B recording acts from The Drifters and The Tuneweavers to Tavares and even Queen Latifa to name a few.
Rick Britto is also a well known jazz educator from the New England area. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, he is a faculty member at both the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Wheaton College instructing private lessons for saxophone and jazz piano, directing music ensembles and teaching Jazz Theory and African-American Music History.
He has also taught younger students locally by assisting band directors for both New Bedford and Old Rochester Regional High School Bands for years and currently teaches a few gifted younger students privately in his home. Rick has also adjudicated many concerts, clinics and competitions in school districts in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Rick also owns a recording studio, Saurus Studio, where he has produced numerous projects for radio & television and engineered, recorded or mastered recordings for many artists locally. Latest projects include CD mastering for "Union", Cheryl Conte: "Fortress", "O Caboverdiano" and “Boa Vista” by Cape Verdean guitarist and cavaquinho player, Tazinho, Andy McWain Ensemble: "Resemblance", Trine: "Politics", Trine: " +1", Rick Britto - Matt Richard: "In The Sky" Conversations with Erik & I" released in June 2011 and his latest recoding project to be release in late August 2011, a Smooth Jazz CD entitled, "For Your Love".
In the publishing world, Rick digitally restored and mastered old recordings for "The Music of South India" published by Prof. Matthew Allen of Wheaton College for Oxford University Press and scored music for "Jazz Consciousness Music, Race, and Humanity" by Prof. Paul Asterlitz for Wesleyan University Press.
Rick is also a professional web designer and web master for several artists and musician's websites including musical artists: Harold Jones, Semenya McCord, Marcelle Gauvin, Jack Gomes, The Dancing Dogs and Cobach Musik plus, psychic medium, Gail Hicks, Cape Verdean artist/photographer, Ron Barboza and political candidate for Ward 1 in New Bedford, Randy Santos.
His newest venture is into the world of visual art! He debuted his first piece of digital art work, "Mind, Body & Soul" a digital self-portrait, at Gallery X in downtown New Bedford as part of the Public Hanging Art Exhibit in August of 2010.
Arlive.com is in the process of transitioning over to our brand new music industry social networking portal (Arlive 5.0). During this transition you may experience some site performance issues until the transition has been completed. We are very excited to be bringing Arlive 5.0 to you, which will include an enhanced user experience (we’ve been listening to your feedback), new and exciting artist opportunities, and the introduction of a music-fan component, where fan activity will help determine artist success. Please stay tuned!
Andrew Cleak
A&R Programs Manager
A&R Music Live, LLC.
