NEIL LARSEN

Neil Larsen is an American musician from Florida, known as a keyboard player, composer, arranger and musical director.  He has 6 solo albums, has played on over 200 albums, and toured and composed for several top R&B, jazz, blues and pop performers.  Growing up in Sarasota, Florida, he  received a Leonard Bernstein  scholarship to the Stan Kenton Clinics in Bloomington, Indiana when he was 14 years old, the youngest of several hundred students (below, 3rd from right). Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1969, Neil was deployed to Viet Nam as an infantry soldier.  After several months there, he was re-assigned to a special services unit, serving as a band leader of a rock band comprised of infantry soldiers that toured around Viet Nam & performed for U.S. soldiers. After his discharge from the Army in 1970, Neil moved to NYC and began playing on television read more...