Mike Armando was the guitarist for Screamin Jay Hawkins.  Screamin Jay and his R&B band unlike any on earth.  When they performed, madness took place.  Screamin Jay's big hit, “I Put A Spell on You” was one of Jay's biggest hits. It all started for Mike when Screamn Jay Hawkins needed a guitarist.  Mike joined his band after receiving a call from MCA Records Music Director Robert Cutarilla . Mike played many years with Screamin Jay Hawkins and toured with Jay. Mike also released his first LP album on the MJA record label, Half Steppen whcih was rated one of the top ten records in Bill Board Magazine radio play list. Mike has recorded with drumming great Bob Moses. He has performed on radio and TV stations across the country. WOWI Radio music director Larry Dinger, Norfolk, Va. held many events at the station where Mike performed live. Mike has performed live events at WPKN, Jazz Adventures with radio host Phil Bowler in Bridgeport, CT. Mike Armando recordings on the mja Record label have been played throughout the USA and in Europe.  Mike Armando has produced and worked with Actress Sharon Stone on the mja Records release "Waltz For Sharon Stone" Artt Frank was the drummer for this CD.  Artt was the drummer for the late great Chet Baker.

Jazz/Blues guitarist Mike Armando has paid his dues several times over. And you can hear it in his playing. My one time contemporary, Charlie Bird Parker once said, “You can’t play it if you haven’t lived
it.” When you listen to Mike, you’ll will know from the very first note that he lived what he plays. There’s a seasoned unfiltered quality in his phrasing that awakens our ears to his affinity for the real deal form of jazz. With Mike, its all about feeling, just as it was with all of the great players of the past, and the few greats who are on the scene today. The sounds Mike has taken in and absorbed through the years didn’t come from any music school class, but straight from his life’s experiences, and from hanging around the great jazz clubs in New York City; and being able to see some of the greats perform up close and personal. Mike has a way of drawing his listeners in and making them a personal part of what he and his group are playing. Mike has surrounded himself with some really fine jazz musicians. - Artt Frank - drummer for the late great Chet Baker.

Mike Armando has produced 13 CDs on the mja label with such artists as Grammy award winner Fred Lipsius, from Blood Sweet & Tears, Nancy Monroe, David Allan Gross, Chris Clark. Pat Morrissey, Artt Frank. One of the tracks from Fred Lipsius, mja release "Better Believe It" CD was released and distributed throughout the world on MCA Records. mja recording artist, Artt Frank who was the drummer for the late great Chet Baker was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame on November 16, 2010. Mike Armando was the producer for all three of Artt's CD's. Mike has worked with other great musician's in his recording and musical career with the likes of Eddie Gomez, Marcus McLaurine, Michael Cochrane, Mike Stern & Bob Moses who recorded on the mja release with David Alan Gross "The Final Answer to Everything" and many others.