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“Transcendence” is a new dynamic trio featuring keyboardist Bob Gluck, bassist Christopher Dean Sullivan, and drummer Karl Latham.
Bob Gluck is a pianist, electronic musician, and writer. Among his thirteen recordings are Early Morning Star (2020, with Andrea Wolper, Kinan Azmeh, Ken Filiano, and Tani Tabbal) and Infinite Spirit: Revisiting Music of the Mwandishi Band (2016, with Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, and Christopher Dean Sullivan). His University of Chicago Press books, now joined by Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words include You’ll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Bandand The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles. His book The Musical World of Paul Winter was published by Terra Nova Press in 2025. Other musical collaborators have included Aruan Ortiz, Michael Bisio, Joe Giardullo, Neil Rolnick, Andrew Sterman, Dean Sharp, and Jane Ira Bloom. Bob Gluck is Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany. http://www.electricsongs.com/
Christopher Dean Sullivan is a bassist of many musical languages: Jazz, Funk, Reggae, Latin, Fusion, Caribbean, Indian, African, and Eurocentric perceptions, rock, country, and more. His forthcoming recording features Mala Waldron, Bobby Sanabria, and Jay Hoggard. He has shared the stage with Stanley Jordan, Pete Seeger, Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, Grant Green, Horace Parlan, Joe McPhee, Sonny Simmons, Cecil Payne, Joe Lovano, Roy Campbell Jr., and recorded with Michael Marcus, Joe Giardullo, Sheila Jordan, Odean Pope, Newman Taylor Baker, and others. Sullivan also performs with the Cotton Club All Star Orchestra and he has toured with 50's/60's groups including the Marcel's, The Drifters, and the Sharelles. Sullivan is also an educator and actor. http://www.Christopherdeansullivan.com
Drummer Karl Latham’s career has spanned the globe, performing, recording, and producing with a multitude of internationally acclaimed musicians, from the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni Groups to Bernie Worrell, and Johnny Winter. Karl is known for his exceptional ability to dig into a variety of musical styles, playing funk, rock, Latin, modern jazz, straight-ahead jazz, and avant-garde. Karl has been co-leader of Big Fun(K) with Don Braden, and Constellations with Ryan Carniaux and Mark Egan. His most recent recordings include “Living Standards II” (2025, with Mark Egan and Mitch Stein), “Living Standards” (2016, with Mark Egan and Vic Juris), and “Together” (2021, with Alex Collins and Ryan Berg). Karl is a long-standing adjunct professor at several New Jersey colleges, and he teaches workshops, master classes and clinics in the USA and abroad, and online. Karl is an endorsing artist for Yamaha Drums, Paiste Cymbals, Evans Drumheads, ProMark Drumsticks, RME, AEA, Heil Sound and Big Fat Snare. Karl is included in the Drummerworld Top Drummers list. http://www.karllatham.com
Gear
Bob Gluck plays Studiologic and Roli Seaboard keyboards with UVI, Keyscape, Equator, and Ableton Live software.
Karl Latham endorses Paiste Cymbals, Yamaha Drums, Evans Drumheads, ProMark Drumsticks, RME, Radial Engineering, AEA Ribbon Microphones, Primacoustic, Heil Sound, Big Fat Snare, Prologix Percussion.
Christopher Dean Sullivan plays a one-of-a-kind Valez fretless electric bass.
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Bassist and composer Simon Sammut takes listeners on a profound journey with 'Visions Of Transcendence'
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Simon Sammut
Bassist and composer Simon Sammut proudly announces the release of his latest album, Visions of Transcendence. This album is not just a collection of songs; it's a cohesive narrative that takes listeners on a profound journey through moments of serenity, enlightenment, and self-discovery. Blending fusion, jazz, hip-hop, and funk, “Visions of Transcendence" creates an introspective and ethereal soundscape designed to resonate deeply with the soul. Each track serves as a portal into different facets of transcendence, offering a transformative experience. ...
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AVG Records Announces New Album Release 'Transcendence' From Jazz Flutist, Michael Mason
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Lampkin Publicity Service
AVG Records is proud to announce the new release from critically acclaimed Jazz Flutist, Michael Mason, Transcendence Transcendence is a nine song compilation of jazz/world fusion/rock original composed/arranged/orchestrated and performed by Mason, with his long time band of gifted musicians. From upbeat guitar riffs on “Joy” to the worldly “Night Skies” with the usage of multiple woodwind instrumentation has Michael floating on top of the musical notes with elegant ease; to the pieces of meditation in “Aloft” and “Together" will ...
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Transcendence 2.0: Louiz Banks pays tribute to Jazz legend Oscar Peterson in Mumbai
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Pradeep Joseph
Louiz Banks is India's pre-eminent jazz pianist, composer, film and record producer. He is also a Grammy nominee and fondly called the “Godfather of Indian Jazz." Transcendence is an annual event where performers pay tribute to legends of Indian & Western jazz music. This year’s Transcendence 2.0, which took place on June 8th in Mumbai, saw two modern day Indian legends, Grammy nominee Louiz Banks (piano) and Dr. Mysore Manjunath (violin) paying tribute to their respective idols, jazz legend Oscar ...
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Drummer/Composer/Conceptualist Jaimeo Brown Transforms Pain and Deliverance into Art on Debut Album, Transcendence, Available April 9 Via Motema Music
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DL Media
Featuring J.D. Allen and Chris Sholar Project Fuses Gee’s Bend Quilters Southern Spirituals with Eastern Indian Music and Electronic Elements, Under the Umbrella of Acoustic Modern Jazz With Special Guests Geri Allen, Falu, and Kelvin Sholar, Among Others Transcendence marks the Motéma Music debut from Jaimeo Brown, a brilliant 34-year-old drummer, composer and conceptualist. With an intriguing amalgam of modern jazz, Southern black spiritual music, East Indian Carnatic music, blues, and hip-hop/electronica production tactics, Transcendence introduces Brown as a fearless ...
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Punch Brothers: Gunning for Transcendence
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JamBase
By Dennis Cook The Punch Brothers are currently out on their Spring 2011 tour. They play tonight (3/9) at the Aladdin Theatre in Portland, OR and then a three-night run at Alyeska Resort in Alaska (3/10-3/12). Full tour dates are here. Usually, evolution is not something that can be willed into being. It's a process of interacting with the environment, DNA and other factors outside one's control. However, from time to time, we encounter an entity that seems to grow ...
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Soulful Samba Transcendence: Brazilian Star in the US
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Chris M. Slawecki
If Pedro Moraes had a muse, she'd shake up sweaty samba bars, hips swaying, and turn heads dancing in the street, snaking her way from Rio's bohemian quarter to Bahia and Recife (and on to Mexico City and Liverpool). She'd boogie between the earthy and the erudite, with heady tropicalismo and brainy modernism.
She'd embody the smart samba, lusophone lyricism, and folk funk captured on Moraes's lush album Claroescuro (Independant) and now in full force for the singer songwriter's first ...
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Gene Ess - Modes of Limited Transcendence - Concert - June 25
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Michael Ricci
Award winning guitarist Gene Ess will perform with his stellar quartet on June 25th. The group will feature Gene's original compositions from his Modes of Limited Transcendence album. This album received a prestigious award from SESAC on March, 2010 for “outstanding jazz performance".
Accompanying Gene Ess on guitar is Greg Tardy on saxophone, Thomson Kneeland on bass, and Gene Jackson on drums. Come and share in the creative process!
June 25, 2010 @ 8PM and 10PM - $20 cover
Miles ...
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Questing After Coltrane's Messy Transcendence
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Michael Ricci
The dauntless, combustible energies of jazz’s 1960s avant-garde have long held a deep attraction for the guitarist Marc Ribot. His public profile may involve a great deal of tact and concision — he works widely as a gun for hire, often infusing low-gloss pop albums with a proper hint of twang — but as a bandleader he tends to reach for a messier, more transcendent ideal. In recent years he has expressed that impulse best through his band Spiritual Unity, ...
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Gene Ess CD Release Party for "Modes of Limited Transcendence" at Blue Note
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Kari-On Productions
Gene Ess CD Release Party Modes of Limited Transcendence
Day: Sunday Date: January 4th, 2009 Time: 1st Set 12:30PM 2nd set 2:30PM Location: Blue Note 131 W 3rd Street New York, NY 10012
Directions: Blue Note New York is located on West 3rd street, between 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) and MacDougal street. The Subway lines that stop right next to our doors are the A, E, ...
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“Their adventurous yet often melodic interpretations of pieces by Metheny, Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarrett cast new light on the compositions while giving each song a fresh treatment.” - Bob Osborne, Bob Osborne’s Different Noises, June 1, 2025
“Transcendence pays tribute to the music of renowned American jazz guitarist and composer Pat Metheny on their guitar-free debut… The Transcendence Trio is made up of three magnificent veteran musicians..." - Carlos Fernandez Pacin, Radio Jazz Café FM (Argentina), May 2025
Cecil Taylor
piano
Ray Brown
bass, acoustic
Billy Cobham
drums
Miles Davis
trumpet
Herbie Hancock
piano
Keith Jarrett
piano
Pat Metheny
guitar
Charles Mingus
bass, acoustic
Jimi Hendrix
guitar, electric
John Bonham
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Transcendence
Location: New York City
Instrument: Band / ensemble / orchestra
Formed: 2000
Publicist: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
