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Boyd Jarvis by Boyd Jarvis
In the beginning

I was always enthusiastic about synthesizers an have looked up to musicians such as Herbie Hancock, Chic Corea, George Duke, Tomita, who I consider my mentors. In 1981 I bought my first synthesizer which was a Yamaha CS-15 which is equipped with two oscillators, two envelope generators a white noise source. I did everything with this one machine for a long time until I could afford more synths. I used to carry my synth to Brownsville Brooklyn to Tony Humphries house to overdub mixes.
I used to carry it in a US canvas postal bag. I first took my synthesizer to a club that I used to work at called Melons where I used to decorate. The DJ was Derrick Davidson the crowd was blown away. That is where I met Timmy Regisford who heard me play. He told me that he had an audition for WBLS radio, and he would like me to overdub the set, so I complied and that was basically where my music career began. Out of hooking up one of the first original tracks that I created for the radio show was "One love" instrumental and then "The Music Got Me" instrumental which was known as "Stomp", which eventually became The Music Got Me. After the instrumental to those two cuts were made and we got so much of a good response from the audience we decided to take the tracks down to a club called Better Days. We play One love the dance floor was empty and when the track came on the crowd stormed the dance floor and that was a sign that we had something happening. So we proceeded to Prelude Records and played the tracks for Marvin Schlachter and told him of the responses that we were getting from the radio audience he was game and gave me my first record contract. Because of the radio show and those tracks Timmy and I began to get a lot of remix work as Partners. I was one of the first guys to discover and expose Colonel Abrams, Tammy Lucas of Hey Boy, Bille of Nobody's Business. A lot of these tracks were created in Timmy's bedroom as well as the mix shows for the radio sets Timmy had the technics reel to reel and a couple of technics turn tables along with a bosac mixer . I will never forget how excited we were when we finished a show. How we used to stay up after leaving the Garage and do the shows then wait to here them either Sunday afternoon or Friday and Saturday nights, Great memories and moments in time. Not actually realizing that we were making history.

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Boyd Jarvis mixed the first release by Phase II records. The A-side is a new version of Footstompin' Music, the B-side is a down tempo, dim -the-lights kinda track by the title 'I Remember'.

Boyd Jarvis worked a couple of times with Timmy Regisford" They are responsible for the production of Visual's 'Somehow, Someway' and, 'The Music Got Me', both 1983 recordings on Prelude records

In 1986 they cooperated again on RY-011 Tammy Lucas' 'Hey Boy' on

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:35:05 -0500 

From: Anthony 

To: jahsonic@yahoo.com 

Subject: Original Mutabaruka Not On Nu Groove 

        



 





http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1392/JoeClaussell.html



Hello,



The Nu Groove track referred to was produced by Bobby Kondors in which

he samples the original accapella which came out in 1983 or 84 from

Mutabaruka's album. The name of the LP escapes me so I'll have to get

back to you on that. Anyway the original is an accapella. It's a spoken

word piece about 4 or 5 min. with no instrumentation. Bobby Kondors

uses only a small piece of it.



Also, the flute solo on Joe's remix was done by Boyd Jarvis, a legend

in

his own right. He was Timmy Regisford's (The Shelter) keyboardist when

Timmy was doing his Mastermixes for WBLS in the early 80's & helped

define Garage during that time with his many collaborations with Timmy

(Visual, Colonel Abrams) and others.



I hope this helps. Thanks & I just want to say that you have the best

site on the net for Garage Headz. Peace.



Regards,

Tony

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Hello Jahsonic



First of all I would like to thank you very much for having information

about my history on your web site. Again thank you, but unfortunately

the information is extremely incorrect.



No offense to you, I am getting a bit tired of the misrepresentation

that I have been seeing on the internet overall not just your site but

many many others, and I would just like if I may, to help to clear up

the misrepresentation by providing you with some of the correct data.

Straight from the man himself Boyd Jarvis "That's Me"



I have been seeing everything from I was timmy's Keyboardist to I 

played

a solo on this or that etc. etc.



First of all Timmy and I were Partners in the business we have done

Many Many Many mixes together as a matter of fact we entered the

business together! We started out doing the radio show for W.B.L.S

together and  because of the radio shows began to generate numerous 

jobs

remixing records.



Most of the Production that I did with Timmy were more than likely

Produced and performed by Timmy & me. not just solo's mind you entire

productions.



Most sessions that I have done with Joe Clausell "Not all but most" 

were

more than likely Produced and or recorded in my personal studio and in

most cases, I more than likely played most of the instruments and mixed

and recorded them with Joe Claussell. As far as Muta Baruka is concern

It was recorded in my Home Studio And every Instrument except some

Percussion's. I played composed and performed remixed etc.

And by the way we have done a few! and occasionally Joe hires me as

keyboardist to play on some of his independent projects.



Francois Kevorkian

One Of my first experiences with Francois was playing on

Wild style By Time zone

Lets start to dance by Bohannon



I met Francois at Prelude records in 1982/83 Francois was working 

there.

I was bringing Prelude the demo of the music's got me.



Please pass this data on as much as you can, it will be highly

appreciated and would help greatly to clear up some of the

misinformation that is floating around. This Info is just partial

If you are interested in more info or Bios feel free to contact me.



Following this letter will be a partial breakdown and discography

of my History.





Thank You

Yours Truly



BOYD H. JARVIS













BIO





MR. JARVIS   started his career as an intern for renowned professor of

anthropology Pearl Primus training under Sandra Ross in theater 

lighting

and set design where he went on to do shows in lincoln center perry

street theater, and riverside church theater. Training himself in music

and applied synthesis architecture, Boyd has become a legend  within 

the

underground and commercial music industry. He is an award winning 

writer

and music producer and has been cited as one of the original creators 

of

what's now known as house music. Known as an innovator in music

production & Remixing, he has worked with many of the recording

industries icons, including Timmy Regisford, Merlin Bobb, Prince,

Madonna, Herbie Hancock, Ah Ha and Boy George, discovered  Colonel

Abrams just to mention a few. Boyd is currently working with some of 

the

top producer Dj's such as Joe Claussell, Louie Vega, Dave Morales,

Francois Kevorkian just to mention a few. As a recipient of the

prestigious Lions Award his list of international advertising clients

have included, Maxwell House Coffee and Vivident Gum as will as 

numerous

others. Mr. Jarvis has 18 years of experience in diverse areas of the

artistic and production process coupled with an innate expertise in

marketing and sales.













In the beginning



 I was always enthusiastic about synthesizers an have looked up to

musicians such as Herbie Hancock, Chic Corea, George Duke, Tomita, who 

I

consider my mentors. In 1981 I bought my first synthesizer which was a

Yamaha CS-15 which is equipped with two oscillators two envelope

generators a white noise source. I did everything with this one machine

for a long time until I could afford more synths. I used to carry my

synth to brownsville Brooklyn to Tony Humphries house to overdub mixes.

I used to carry it in a US canvas postal bag. I first took my

synthesizer to a club that I used to work at called melons where I used

to decorate. The DJ was Derrick Davidson the crowd was blown away.

Thatís where I met Timmy Regisford who heard me play. He told me that 

he

had an audition for WBLS radio, and he would like me to overdub the 

set,

so I complied and that was basically where my music career began. Out 

of

hooking up one of the first original tracks that I created for the 

radio

show was "One love" instrumental and then "The musicís Got Me"

instrumental which was known as "Stomp", which eventually became The

Musicís Got Me. After the instrumental to those two cutís were made and

we got so much of a good response from the audience we decided to take

the tracks down to a club called Better dayís. We play One love the

dance floor was empty and when the track came on the crowd stormed the

dance floor and that was a sign that we had something happening. So we

proceeded to Prelude Records and played the tracks for Marvin Shlacter

and told him of the responses that we were getting from the radio

audience he was game and gave me my first record contract. Because of

the radio show and those tracks Timmy and I began to get a lot of remix

work as Partners. I was one of the first guys to discover and expose

Colonel Abrams, Tammy Lucas of Hey Boy, Bille of Nobody's Business. A

lot of these tracks were created in Timmyís bedroom as well as the mix

shows for the radio sets Timmy had the technics reel to reel and a

couple of technics turn tables along with a bosac mixer .

I will never forget how excited we were when we finished a show. How we

used to stay up after leaving the Garage and do the shows then wait to

here them either Sunday afternoon or Friday and Saturday nights, Great

memories and moments in time. Not actually realizing that we were 

making

history.











TELEVISION EXPERIENCE (partial list)



ï      KINO ADVERTISING, Athens, Greece

        Commercial Production/Lyrics/Voice over

ï      Maxwell House Coffee/Frappe  (Lion Award Winner)

ï      Club Cookies

ï      Vivident Chewing Gum

ï      NEW CHANNEL MUSIC VIDEO TV, Athens, Greece

        Writer/Producer

ï      Hideoki Corp. Tokyo Japan-Mono Clear Contact lenses



RADIO EXPERIENCE



ï      W.B.L.S.

        Co-producer, Dance Music Show

ï      IONION RADIO, Athens, Greece

        Host, Dance Music Program

ï      Air FM Japan New York After Midnight Show



RADIO COMMERCIALS



        CLUB GAULOISE, Athens, Greece

        Commercial Production/Lyrics/Voice over

        CLUB TANGO, Athens, Greece

        Commercial Production/Lyrics/Voice over

        CLUB STAVLOS, Athens, Greece

        Commercial Production/Lyrics/Voice over



FILM & THEATER (partial list)



ï      Monte Verde Productions

          Film ìDwarfî

          Film Score Music Composition

ï      Pearl Primus (Theater)

        Stage Manager/Lighting

ï        Perry St. Theater

ï        Lincoln Center

ï        Riverside Church

ï        Village Gate



SET DESIGN & INTERIOR DISPLAY



ï        Abraham Strauss, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Benhil Mens Shop

ï        Clubs, Studio 54, Bonds International, Melons, Pratt institute





DISCOGRAPHY/PRODUCTION (partial client list)







Artist                            Song Title



ï  ATLANTIC RECORDS



Miki Howard                   Come Share My Love/LP

Levert                          Addicted To Love, Pullover

Troop                            My Heart

Ten City                        Where Do We Go



ï COLUMBIA RECORDS

Herbie Hancock              Beat wise

Latoya Jackson              Rock You



ï DANCE TRACKS RECORDS

Boyd Jarvis             Elements ìEPî Mood Swing/Guitar Space/Can't 

Stop

Me

Tuphan better                late than never



ï ESTEREO RECORDS

Roland Clark                  Speak to me lord



ï EMI/CAPITOL RECORDS

Madonna                        SideWalk Talk

Evelyn  King                   Stop It



ï GUIDANCE RECORDS

Chuck P                         Jazz Funeral

Muta Baruka                   Dis Poem



ï HALF MOON RECORDS

On The Floor                  Tony Cook & The Party People

I got A Song For You       Free Russell



ï MCA  RECORDS

Bobby Brown                  Donít Be Cruel

Gerald Alston                 You Laid Your Love On Me, Activated

Gladys Knight                 Lovin On Next To Nothing

Kim Wilde                       Heartache

Loose Ends                    Watching You, Life

Crusaders                      AC/DC



ï MOTOWN RECORDS

Basic Black                      Nothing But A Party

Desiree Coleman             To The Curb, Iím Not That Kind Of Girl



ï POLYGRAM RECORDS

Johnny Kemp                   Dancin With Myself

Reddings                         Call The Law

John Whitehead                Body Move



ï RCA RECORDS

Johnny Gill                        Canít Wait Till Tomorrow

Glenn Jones                      Finesse



ï STRICTLY RHYTHM RECORDS

Barbara Tucker                  I Get Lifted



ï THE UNDERGROUND NETWORK RECORDS

Pierre Salandy                   Love is the answer



ï VIRGIN RECORDS

Boy George                       Tell Me The Answer

Adeva & F. Knuckles          Celebrate

D-Note                              Lost And Found



ï WARNER BROS. RECORDS

Prince                               Tick Tick Bang

Karen White                       Secret Rendezvous, Family Man

Chaka Khan                        Life Is A Dance "LP"

Ah Ha                                Touchy

Rick James                        Wonderful



ï YELLOW RECORDS

Shazz                                Inner Side









PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE (partial list)



1998

The Carlos Sanchez Movement   Flying High          Maxi Records

Boyd Jarvis                               Alibokolijah

Novus/Cisco



1997

Visual                              Its You

LifeLine Records

Nyles Jarvis Project         Tribal Juice                   Jazz Club

Records

ì                            ì        A Tribute to Miles

ì                       ì

ì                            ì        We Can Work It Out

ì                       ì

ì                            ì        Roots

ì                       ì

ì                            ì        World Peace

ì                       ì

ì                            ì         Spell

ì                       ì





The Carlos Sanchez Movement    Love & Respect      Maxi Records

Boyd Jarvis                      Stomp

Shelter Records



1991

Boyd Jarvis                      Boyd Jarvis At Last           Movin

Records



1987

React                                Love Reaction

Minimal Records



1986

Billie                                 Nobodys Business

Fleetwood Records

Level 3                             Central line

Fleetwood Records

Boyd Jarvis                       Iíve Got The Music             Movin

Records



1985

Tammy Lucas                   Hey Boy

Supertronics

Janice Christie                  One Love



1984

Circuit                              A Little Help Friends           

4th

& Broadway Records

                                        Release The Tension



1983

Visual                              The Music's Got Me

Prelude Records

                                       SomeHow SomeWay

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