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Jeff Tolbert

Jeff Tolbert is a Seattle composer and musician writing music for films, advertising and video games. He is currently scoring the documentaries Walk Right In, about Yale Summer High School in 1967-68, and Modern Views, a history of 20th-century architecture in the Northwest. He has also written music for the films Safe Passage, Brains, Facing the Dragon, and the dance short Slip Cadence. Games he's scored include Faerie Solitaire and Ramps, and advertising and corporate video clients include Palm, Bakon Vodka, MovieMaker Magazine, and the Seattle non-profit PATH.

Jeff studied film scoring with Emmy-award-winning composer Hummie Mann and classical and jazz composition with Tim Huling. He plays bass for Seattle singer/songwriter Tiger Zane and blues guitarist James Howard, as well as guitar, piano, ukulele, trombone, and various percussion instruments and household objects.