Career
He has recorded with Ernestine Anderson (including the Grammy-nominated CDs Blues, Dues and Love News and Now And Then), Ladd McIntosh, Kenny Goldberg, Joe Gallardo, and Jane"s Addiction on Ritual de lo Habitual. Two of his newer works are featured on the Wayne Bergeron Civil Defense entitled Plays Well With Others: "Samba Brassiliero", and "Scheherazade", a re-working of the third movement of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov"s work. Stradling"s music has been featured in films, commercials and on television, most notably in the feature film Ray of Sunshine and on Entertainment Tonight (compositions), the American Music Awards (compositions and arrangements), and in the films Flushed Away, The Number 23 and Shrek the Third (orchestrations).
His debut Civil Defense as a leader Les Is Mo" was released on January 16, 2007 on Origin Records.
As a pianist and/or keyboardist he has performed with Quincy Jones, Mel Tormé, Sammy Davis Junior., Diane Schuur, Torsten de Winkel, The Banda Brothers, Rubin Estrada, Lincolnshire Renaud, and Sue Raney. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Stradling worked as a studio musician in Europe and played on many successful popular records.
During this time he was the featured piano player on the Italian Disco hit "One Foreign Maine, One Foreign You" in 1978.
