is the Founder, Executive Director and President of JAKA Music Company.
JAKA Music Company is a network of professional musicians, composers and arrangers producing
music especially designed to work in conjuction with audio-visual productions. His work includes
filmsoring, jingles, theatifical music background, easy listening music and the sounds of Jazz,
Classical, Raggae, Gospel, Pop and Rock. The style of music is umlimited; from Baroque
(Sonata No3, Fugue-ish) to Contemporary (Tropicfest, Showroom, Ocala).
Arlo is a 1982 graudate of Barklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He also
holds a Master of Divinity in Scared Music and holds a PhD as well as he is pursing a second PhD.
 Arlo is a mult-instrumentlist playing over 14 instruments, not to mention he does vocal
with almost as many styles. He boasts a full state-of-the-art digitial recording studio and his
services include Orchestration, Arranging, Lead Sheet, Charts Sound Effects, Demos,
Soundtracks. TRAX, Voiceovers, Jingles, Full album/tape/CD production, and film-scoring, etc.
There is also JAKA Music School offering vocial coaching [all styles] or instrumental
lessons [woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings, organ, piano, keyboards, and ethnic instruments
from most culture.] As Arlo has the unique abilibty to teach RIGHT-BRAIN (Creative) dominated
people and LEFT-BRAIN (Analytical) dominated people, you have a choice of mode of instruction.
You can either learn Sight Reading and Theory or how to "Play by Ear" or a combination of both.
 Presently managing his own recording studio and music school, he, also, conducts orchestra.
Mr. Allen has conducted the World Youth orchestra, Univeristy of Maryland orchestra, and the
Oral Roberts orchestra. He has written two Gospel opers and plays 14 instruments. Although he
has experienced formal training, Mr. Allen attibutes his success, skills, and talent to the Holy Spirit
for his inspiration to play. He is, currently working on an album to be released in the near future
and a Master of Arts degree in Music at American University.
Mr. Allen's aspiration is to originate a spirit-filled 150 piece orchestra with musicians using
music as a sounding board to perform and to expose their talents and Christian musicians worldwide.
He is married to Dr. Bianca Allen with five lovely children.
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