Jazz Articles about Rufus Cappadocia
About Rufus Cappadocia
Instrument: Cello
Article Coverage | Calendar | Albums | Photos | Similar ArtistsRufus Cappadocia: Songs for Cello

by Greg Camphire
Canadian-bred, New York-based cellist and composer Rufus Cappadocia is a world music traveler, having studied and performed in a variety of traditions--from American blues, folk and jazz to Spanish flamenco, Haitian voodoo drumming and various styles from the Balkans, the Middle East and India. Citing saxophonist John Coltrane and guitarists Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King as formative influences, and playing a self-designed, five-string electric instrument, Cappadocia whips up a hypnotic blend of sounds with Songs For Cello, his debut solo ...
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