David Bluefield

David Bluefield is an American songwriter, composer, musician, producer, arranger, and video director. His song, "What's the Use," recorded by Mary MacGregor, was the "International Grand Prix Winner" as well as winning the "Most Outstanding Performance Award" at the World Popular Song Festival in 1980. He has recorded with Stevie Nicks and Tim Buckley and has shared the stage with Badfinger, Frank Zappa, Traffic, Alice Cooper, Paul Williams, and Paul Anka. He toured extensively with Three Dog Night and Mary MacGregor and was a band member of the music group, Kindred, who released two albums on Warner Bros. He wrote, produced, and directed, Music Has His Back: Leo Pearlstein, the 104-year-old Drummer, which won a Texas Short Film Festival Award for "Most Inspirational Film," an Audience Award at the Under 5 Minutes Film Festival for "Best Documentary". Bluefield attended Fairfax High School where he played in the rock band, "Potluck", who shared the stage with Traffic and Alice Cooper. Bluefield has played with the Platters, Steve Martin, Tracey Ullman, Three Dog Night, Paul Williams, Paul Anka, Iron Eyes Cody, and performed live with Ringo Starr.

In the early 1970s he was a band member (piano, keyboards, organ) and the main songwriter in the music group, Kindred. They toured nationally and shared the stage with Three Dog Night and Badfinger, among others. They released two albums on Warner Bros., "Kindred" and "Next of Kin."

In 1977, Bluefield played the keyboard in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when the humans tried to communicate with the aliens in the spacecraft. His co-write, "What's the Use," recorded by Mary MacGregor, was the "International Grand Prix Winner" as well as winning the "Most Outstanding Performance Award" at the World Popular Song Festival in 1980. Both singles were co-written with Marty Rodgers, whom Bluefield wrote and performed with for 10 years.

He played keyboards and drum machine on Stevie Nicks' hit single, Stand Back in 1983 and in 1984 won a Clio Award for producing the music for the Los Angeles Police Department's television commercial titled, "It Could Happen." In 1985, Bluefield played piano on The American Music Project (album), which included performances by Don McLean, Rita Coolidge, and Hoyt Axton, among others. In 1996, Bluefield released "Rolling Over the Classics." (album) and in 2020 released "Munchtime" (album).

Bluefield filmed his 103 year old musician father, (Leo Pearlstein) playing drums on "All of Me". (Bluefield played the piano) In 2024, he wrote, produced, and directed, Music Has His Back: Leo Pearlstein, the 104-year-old Drummer, which won an Audience Award at the Under 5 Minutes Film Festival for "Best Documentary" and was nominated for "Best Documentary" at the Couch Film Festival.

Discography Source: 1970 - "Sweetness" (single) - Maurice Williams - songwriter 1971 - "Kindred" (album) - Kindred - songwriter, keyboards, organ 1972 - "Next of Kin" (album) - Kindred - songwriter, keyboards, organ 1975 - "Look at the Fool" (single) - Tim Buckley - clavinet 1975 - "Memories" (single) - Mary MacGregor - songwriter 1976 - "Framed" (single) - Cheech & Chong - performer 1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind - keyboards 1980 - "What's the Use" (single) - Mary MacGregor - songwriter 1981 - "Stand Back" (single) - Stevie Nicks - Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizer and Oberheim DMX programming 1986 - Richard Simmons and the Silver Foxes (video) - music

Solo discography Source: 1995 - "Clazzual Sax" (album) - Rhythm & Bluefield Band - composer, producer, arranger, piano, engineer 1996 - "Rolling Over The Classics" (album) - Rhythm & Bluefield Band - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2023 - "Munchtime" (album) - David Bluefield - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2023 - Rockin' Nursery Rhymes Singalong (album) - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2023 - Earth Idol - Rhythm & Bluesical (album) - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2023 - ArRanger in the Brainforest: Bite-Sized Instrumentals (album) - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2023 - Suite 1 from "5 Suites de Pandemica": On the Couch (album) - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2023 - Suite 2 from "5 Suites de Pandemica": From the Chair (album) - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2023 - Suite 3 from "5 Suites de Pandemica": By the Bed (album) - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2023 - Suite 4 from "5 Suites de Pandemica": In the Bath (album) composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2023 - Suite 5 from "5 Suites de Pandemica": And Beyond (album) composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2024 - Clazzax Trilogy 1: Clazzual Sax (album) - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2024 - Clazzax Trilogy 2: ReClassified (album) - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2024 - Clazzax Trilogy 3: Rolling Over the Classics (album) - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2024 - Jazz Me Up (with Stephen Cole) - Volume 1 - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards 2025 - Jazz Me Up (with Stephen Cole) - Volume 2 - composer, arranger, producer, keyboards