Rag Magazine wrote in an album review, “John Bartus could well be a force to be recorded with, in the very near future. The song, ‘Velvet Elvis,’ is reminiscent of the soft sarcastic style of Warren Zevon: a man, eating donuts in the Black Lung Cafe, receives a vision from ‘The King’ through a velvet […]

My passion for playing music began when I was 12 years old. Although I started with guitar lessons, I gravitated toward playing bass too. Through high school, I played bass in the jazz, concert and marching bands. In my senior year, I won the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award. After graduation from the Academy of Culinary […]