David Diggs

California-based keyboardist, composer, and arranger David Diggs fuses jazz with R&B to shape his signature blue-eyed soul style. Cash Box and Billboard both selected him among their three top new artists of 1985, the same year his fourth solo release, Streetshadows, logged twenty-six weeks inside the Top Ten on Billboard’s jazz album chart. Diggs has sustained a strong profile as a producer and arranger, handling production duties, string and horn charts, and session performances for Quincy Jones, Irene Cara, Jonathan Butler, Richie Furay, the Brothers Johnson, and Pat and Debby Boone. Three of the albums he produced received Grammy nominations: Bob Bailey’s I’m Walking, Barry McGuire, and comedian Jonathan Winters’ Finally Captured, Vol. 1. The same musician who once absorbed Buffalo Springfield records as a teenager later produced, arranged, and toured alongside Richie Furay. On his own projects Diggs regularly assembles first-call Los Angeles session musicians; Streetshadows, his most commercially successful recording, spotlighted guitarist Lee Ritenour, drummer Harvey Mason, saxophonist Ernie Watts, violinist Doug Cameron, and vocalists Dianne Reeves and Bob Carlisle.