Brett Bloomfield.
Biography.
Mark Morgan.
Biography.
Tim Gorman.
Biography.
He gained a degree in composition and musical theory, became a respected session musician and was later brought to England by producer Glyn Johns to work with the Rolling Stones and to tour with the Who. While in England, he also joined Lazy racer, who recorded two little-known albums.
Returning to San Francisco, he was invited by Paul Kantner to join his new KBC Band, beginning a partnership that would see him on regular keyboards duty behind Kantner for ten years from 1985 to May 1995 as a member of not only the KBC Band, but later also Wooden Ships and the relaunched Jefferson Starship. He also took part in the 1989 Jefferson Airplane reunion tour as a guest player. Following the recording of the live "Deep Space / Virgin Sky", he left Jefferson Starship for unspecified reasons, and little has been heard of him since.
Gary Cambra.
Biography.
T. Lavitz.
Biography.
Between late 1978 and 1983, he was a member of the Dixie Dregs, an instrumental jazz-rock group and had been voted "best new talent" by Keyboard Magazine. When the Dregs broke up in 1983, he turned to session and guest musician work, and has apperaed with Nils Loftgren, Pat Benetar, Bill Bruford, Billy Cobham and Mothers Finest. In 1991-2 he appeared with Widespread Panic, before taking part in the 1992 Dixie Dregs reunion. That same year, he was voted "jazz keyboardist of the year" by Keyboard magazine.
In April 1996, he joined Jefferson Starship to replace Gary Cambra, and later played onthe sessions for "Windows of Heaven". However, he left before its release, and now plays alongside Billy Cobham in a quartet, Jazz Is Dead, who reinterpret Grateful Dead songs with a jazz slant.
In addition to six Dixie Dregs, one Jefferson Starship and one Jazz Is Dead albums, he has also released five solo albums between 1986 and the present day.
Chris Smith.
Biography.
Last Updated: 10 August 2000
Bassist, 1988 - 90 (Starship) / 1992 - ? (Mickey Thomas' Starship) / 1998 - Date (Big Bad Wolf)
Brett Bloomfield first came to prominance in the 1970's, when he was a member of Snail alongside future Jefferson Starship drummer Don Baldwin. Following the break-up of Snail, he spent much of his time involved in session work, including playing the bass parts on Grace Slick's final solo album, Software. In 1987, he was drafted in to replace Pete Sears in the video for Starship's "It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)", which let to him joining the band full-time when Sears quit soon after. He remained with the band until it broke up in 1990, and then spent 1991-2 backing former Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan before joining Mickey Thomas' reconstituted Starship in 1992. Having left the band at some point, he resurfaced again in 1998 as a member of former Starship compatriot Craig Chaquico's new band, Big Bad Wolf.
Keyboards, 1988 - 90 (Starship)
Very little is known about Mark Morgan, except that before joining Starship he was a member of a band called Stargard. Following the 1990 break-up of Starship, he moved into writing film and TV scores, including the unsuccessful 1998 ABC-TV Sci-Fi series "Prey".
Keyboards, 1985 - 87 (KBC Band) / 1991 - 92 (Wooden Ships) / Jefferson Starship (1992 - 95)
Tim Gorman has a long and distinguished musical history. A native of San Francisco, he studied classical piano from the age of four and, despite finding himself in the heart of the psychadelic world, was more influenced by Cream and Emerson, Lake and Palmer than by the local scene.
Keyboards, May 1995 - April 1996 (Jefferson Starship)
Gary Cambra replaced Tim Gorman on keyboards in Jefferson Starship, but departed after less than a year to become the musical director for Roseanne's TV show, Saturday Night Special. Following the demise of this short-lived series, he joined the Tubes for Genius Of Love (1996).
Keyboards, April 1996 - August 1998 (Jefferson Starship)
T. Lavitz was born in 1956, and studied classical piano from the age of seven. However, this was the year the Beatles hit America (1964), and this soon turned him towards rock & roll.
Keyboards, August 1998 - date (Jefferson Starship)
Chris Smith is the current Jefferson Starship keyboards player, and as yet very little is known about him.