The Biography of Jeff Murphy

Jeff was born in San Francisco and graduated from Clayton Valley High School in
Concord, CA. He attended Diablo Valley College for two years in Pleasant Hill,
CA, majoring in Music Theory, and Harmony and Piano.
  He started working on his own pianos around 1971, then trained with local,
established piano tuners and technician experts.  
  Jeff began his career in 1972 as a piano tuner / technician for a piano store called
Stevens Music on Clayton Rd. in Concord, CA.

  He moved to Los Angeles, CA. in 1972 and began advertising in the local Yellow Pages and in a short time tuned two pianos for his first celebrity, Sammy Davis Jr.


  Then he began tuning pianos at concerts for popular bands like:

• Hootie & the Blowfish
  
• Blood, Sweat and Tears
  
• Steely Dan
  
• Steve Miller Band
  
• The Allman Brothers
  
• The Eagles
• Peter Duchin Band (Son of Eddie Duchin)

• Barry Manilow
• Nicholas Cage
  
• David Carradine
  
• Chevy Chase
• Andrea Bocelli
  
• Jodie Benson (voice of Little Mermaid)
  
• Carroll O’Connor (Archie Bunker in All in the Family)
  
• Ashton Kutcher
  
• Patricia Arquette
  
• Jerry O'Connell  (Jerry Maguire, Kangaroo Jack, Crossing Jordan)
  
• Eddie Arnold   (Green Acres)
  
• Robert Estes (Friends, Melrose Place)
  
• Patti LaBelle
  
• Sharon Stone
  
• Bonnie Raitt  (Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About)
  
• and others
• James Caan
• Paul Williams (Composer/Musician - Rainbow Connection)
  
  

Famous Places:

• House of Blues (Disneywalk, Anaheim)
• House of Blues (Hollywood)
  
• Hilton (Universal Citywalk)
  
• Hilton (Long Beach)
  
• Sheraton (Long Beach)
  
• Whiskey A Go-Go (Hollywood)
  
• Radisson (Culver City)
  
• The Casino (Catalina Island)
  
• The Wilshire Theater (Los Angeles)
  
• Princess Cruises (Island Princess, Pacific Princess, Sun Princess
• The Forum/Los Angeles