Mike was born in the U.S. of A’s smallest state, Rhode
Island, and has been on the road ever since. Mike and his
family relocated to rural New Jersey, Atlanta GA, and
finally Columbus Ohio, where Mike gave up sports and video
games to pursue music full-time. After years of playing
sousaphone in Marching band, cello in youth-orchestras,
and leading numerous rock projects, Mike decided to pursue
a Jazz degree at the New England Conservatory. Gamble now
teaches a rock band class at Claremont Prep on Wall st.
and is in and out of his apartment in Brooklyn, touring
the states and Europe. In NYC he performs monthly with
indie rockers Seequill, his jazz trio The Inbetweens, his
solo project Scrambler, as well as other NYC fixtures
like Pete Robbins, The Brooklyn Qawwali Party, and Todd
Sickafoose. He also has begun to work on soundtracks,
notably Manda Bala, an award winning critical look at the
Brazilian kidnapping regime and Captured, a film about
how photographer Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life
to the documenting the final era of raw creativity and
lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side. Gamble also
curates a Monday night showcase of improvised music at
South Slope’s Bar4. Mike just got back from a tour supporting legendary