Curtis Roush

Curtis Roush started playing piano and violin at a very early age. Formal piano lessons started when he was 4 y.o. By the fourth grade he phased out of the lessons as he found the required recitals to be too frightening. Around that time his older sister was listening to The Beatles and he was immediately hooked. He decided that he wanted to play in a band so he went to work mowing lawns for the entire neighborhood so he could buy a guitar. Through junior high and high school he played in various rock bands, first as a guitarist, then eventually changing back over to keyboards. In his senior year he moved to San Diego CA (from his hometown of Sheridan WY) where he attended his first large rock concert at the sports arena. He went to hear Black Sabbath but the opening band, Gentle Giant, changed his life for ever. He was instantly hooked on progressive rock. Soon he was deep into progressive bands like Yes and Frank Zappa and later, in his early 20’s, ended up playing in a jazz fusion band in Sacramento CA where he also started taking some music classes at Sacramento State University. At 23 Curtis entered the Berklee College of Music in Boston MA where he later graduated Summa Cum Laude receiving a Bachelor of Music in film scoring. By 1981 he was working in Hollywood CA as a film music editor where, over the next 33 years, he worked on over 100 feature films with some of the most sought after composers of the time. Curtis retired from the film business in 2014 and began playing in blues, jazz, and by 2019, a couple of jazz fusion bands. During those years he began writing jazz fusion for his bands. That phase ended when Covid closed down Los Angeles but he continued to write and produce jazz fusion in his home studio. Curtis moved to Auckland, New Zealand in 2023 and when he’s not trekking forest and coastal trails with his wife he continues to compose and produce - - what else? Jazz Fusion.