David Was is, with his stage-brother, Don Was, the founder of the influential 80s pop group, Was (Not Was). Reviewed by the New York Times in 1980 as "the funkier art-funk band," (comparing them to Talking Heads) WNW used members of Funkadelic alongside jazz legends like trumpeter Marcus Belgrave and singers Mel Torme and Ozzy Osbourne. A graduate of the University of Michigan (and a winner of a Hopwood literary prize for short fiction), Was fled his native Detroit for California and found employment as the jazz critic for the now-defunct Hearst daily, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, where he forged friendships with Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis, and the aforementioned Torme. Was (Not Was) released five albums and enjoyed four top 10 singles worldwide, and are working on releasing a new CD in the fall of 2005. Inbetween, David produced two soundtrack albums for the "X-Files" tv show and feature film, as well as music supervised features for Fox and Disney. He joined the ranks of network music composers on CBS' "Education of Max Bickford," starring Richard Dreyfuss, and also did the music for ABC's "That Was Then." As a record producer, he was worked with Bob Dylan, Rickie Lee Jones, Wayne Kramer (of MC5 fame) and the Holly Cole Trio of Canada. He will produce a forthcoming Sonny Rollins CD in the winter of 2005.