David Sancious | Artist

David Sancious is an American jazz-rock fusion musician born 1953 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He is perhaps best known as an early member of Bruce Springsteen's group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the superb first three Springsteen albums Greetings From Asbury Park NJ, The Wild the Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle, and Born to Run, and again on the later albums Human Touch, Tracks and Western Stars. Sancious is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known as a keyboard player and guitarist. He left the E Street Band in 1974 to form his own band, Tone, and released several excellent solo and band albums which had more in common with the jazz-fusion sound of Return to Forever than the straight ahead rock of Springsteen. He subsequently became a popular session and touring musician, most notably for Stanley Clarke, Narada Michael Walden, Zucchero, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Jack Bruce, Jeff Beck and Sting. Standout solo and Tone albums include his debut Forest of Feelings (1975), Transformation: The Speed of Love (1976), True Stories (1978) and Just as I Thought (1979). The band Tone is a trio comprising Sancious (keyboards, guitar, vocals), Gerald Carboy (bass, vocals) and Ernest Carter (drums). In 2014, Sancious was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band, which was named after the street where Sancious's mother lived. In the band's early days, Springsteen and his bandmates used her garage at 1107 E Street in Belmar, New Jersey as a rehearsal space.

Artist Website: davidsancious.com

Featured Albums: David Sancious

Related Artists: David Sanctious & Tone, Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band, Peter Gabriel

Video Clips: Sleight of Hand, Live at Abbey Road, Valley of the Shadow