Jeff Chimenti

Jeff Chimenti ( born October 21, 1968) is an American keyboardist, best known by the rock band Ratdog.

Jeff Chimente grew up in San Francisco. At the age of four years found Chimente taste for music, as he imitated the church organ player and so found his way to the piano. At seven, he began music lessons with Angela Biggio, who was a student of Leonard Bernstein and Rudolf Serkin. During his high school years he joined the " South San Francisco HS jazz band " at. This one of the teachers became aware of him and supported him by helping to play at various gigs.

Already in the tenth grade, he played in the jazz band of the College of San Mateo, California. At the same time he was also a member of the "Skyline College Big Band " and of the local symphony orchestra.

After he graduated from high school in 1984, he enlisted at San Mateo College and attended the Jazz Workshop, where he met Pony Poindexter. A year later, he finished his school education. He instead found a job in Amsterdam. Until the early 1990s he played with various musicians. So he accompanied En Vogue and MC Hammer at their first tour. He also played with famous musicians such as Charnett Moffett, Art Farmer, John Handy and Ernie Watts in jazz clubs. He was a demand keyboard players, for players who were traveling without their house band, and he took with him seven years at the Monterey Jazz Festival in part.

About " Dave Ellis 's jazz quartet " Chimenti was keyboardist of the band Ratdog Bob Weir, where he became a master musician in May 1997. So far, he took with the band on two albums. About Weir he came in 2002 as keyboardist for the Grateful Dead sequel, The Other Ones, which was shortly afterwards renamed The Dead, where Chimenti still played and recorded another album. 2009 founded Weir and Phil Lesh, the band Furthur, Jeff Chimenti also at the keyboard played and is represented on albums.

He was also from 2000 to 2002 Member of Colonel Les Claypool 's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade Les Claypool, where he grossed two albums. More albums he recorded with Larry Coryell, Pete Escovedo and Dave Ellis.