session player
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After moving to Los Angeles, he became a favorite live and session player for many midcentury greats, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Marvin Gaye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
He bought a Moog machine for himself and soon was applying his earlier music training to this new instrument, becoming an electronic-music producer and session player.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
His Brooklyn studio, Figure 8, remains an affordable and inclusive hub for experimental musicians, even as Ismaily becomes a marquee session player.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
It was very frustrating because I wasn’t there to just play on something like a metronome or a session player.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2020
And he ended up working with Paul McCartney — not only on Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album in 1982, but later as a session player in McCartney's 1984 film, "Give My Regards to Broad Street."
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2020
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