Steve Bach

A fine keyboardist, Steve Bach has mostly been performing behind the scenes in recent years and has not gained all the recognition he deserves. He started playing music on the accordion when he was four and 13 years later won the New York State Jazz Accordion Award. By then, however, Bach was mostly a pianist, and he graduated from college after having been a theory and composition major. Moving to the West Coast, Bach spent two years touring and gigging with Stanley Clarke. He then began his own solo career, which resulted in several releases for the Café and Soundwings labels. In 1987, Bach toured with Kitaro, and a little later was the keyboardist for Flora Purim & Airto.