Jonathan Priest, founder and webmaster for Groovewell, has worked as a
computer
consultant and Internet developer in the Tampa Bay area since 1992. He has
played drums and percussion for a variety of local bands, including
funksters Stinky Jones, and blues groups led by P.W. Fenton and James
Peterson. Reggae band Rocksteady@8 and the improv quartet
Ghetto Love Sugar number among his current musical projects. In 1999, he began studies of Indian classical percussion at the
Pandit Jasraj School of Music in
Tampa. He lives in Tampa with his two cats, Joni and Ella.
Philip Booth, a longtime music and entertainment journalist, writes for
Billboard, Salon, Down Beat, Jazziz and Bass Player. His byline also appears
in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times, Philadelphia City
Paper, Atlanta Creative Loafing, Orlando Weekly, the Weekly Planet and other
newspapers around the country. Booth, the pop music critic for the Tampa
Tribune from 1988 to 1996, additionally has written for Spin, Option, the
Boston Globe, USA Today, and the reference book "MusicHound World: The
Essential Album Guide." He also plays bass for Greenwich Blue and a variety
of other Tampa Bay area bands. "Monk in the Sun," a Booth-produced tribute
disc featuring recordings by Kenny Drew, Jr., Jeff Berlin and the late Nat
Adderley, was released in 1995, followed the next year by Greenwich Blue's
"When Our Time Comes." The freelance writer lives in Tampa, with his wife
Callie, son Chase and daughter Carly.
rdr, web designer and graphics guru for groovewell, has been a professional web designer for some 4 years now and an “artsy freak” for longer than that. As a graduate of the non-mainstream honors school, New College in Sarasota, and a longtime fan of the local band scene, he naturally gravitated to the groovewell initiative. He has a Bachelors Degree in Religious Studies, so had to be forcibly held back from placing spiritual symbology in the design of groovewell (Is the groovewell tree actually a metaphor for the spiritual awakening of mankind in an age of hollow mythology and plastic salvation? We wonder...). See a selection of his other works at: www.LiberalArtist.com. He would LOVE to build your web site!
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