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Abraham Laboriel
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Abraham Laboriel is a world renowned bassist and the founder of the band KOINONIA. He was born and raised in Mexico City where he received his earliest musical training from his father, a gifted guitarist and composer. His first recording was at age 10 as part of a "rock and roll" group called "Los Traviesos". After performing in Mexico thru his teen years as both a musician and an actor, he moved to Boston where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the Berklee School of Music in 1972. During that time he recorded with faculty member, famed vibraphonist Gary Burton. He traveled with Johnny Mathis, Michel Legrand, and Henry Mancini and moved to Los Angeles in 1976 to begin a very diverse and fruitful studio recording career. He has performed and recorded with many jazz artists including George Benson, Larry Carlton, the Crusaders, Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Grusin, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Al Jarreau, John Klemmer, Manhattan Transfer, Joe Pass, Joe Sample, Lalo Shifrin, Diane Schuur, Sara Vaughan, and Joe Zawinul
Lumina Way
By Tom Zygmont
Label: Neckbone Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Afro Blue; It’s Complicated; Lumina Way; Better From A Distance; Contusion; Sixteen Words; Pacifica;
Big Dipper; Just Friends With Benefits; Seikilos.
Contusion (featuring Jennifer Batten)
Album: Lumina Way
By Tom Zygmont
Label: Neckbone Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 03:46
Contusion (featuring Jennifer Batten)
Album: Lumina Way
By Tom Zygmont
Label: Neckbone Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 03:46
It's Complicated
Album: Lumina Way
By Tom Zygmont
Label: Neckbone Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 05:24
Cherry, Redman, Haden and Blackwell: Opening The Doors Of Perception
by Chris May
ECM's audiophile vinyl reissue series Luminessence has a simple mission statement: it is to showcase albums that have “changed perceptions of creative music making." The series kicked off in April 2023 with Kenny Wheeler's Gnu High (1976) and Nana Vasconcelos' Saudade (1979). These are to be followed towards the end of June 2023 with Old And ...
2022: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
Current events impacted the jazz world in significant ways throughout 2022. In its third year, the coronavirus pandemic continued to lurk in some settings, while others recovered in robust fashion. Russia's war on Ukraine was felt by musicians and triggered an outpouring of support for its victims. Initiatives to ensure greater equity in jazz advanced. The ...
Joe Lovano: Cleveland's Ultimate Jazz Titan
by Matthew Alec
Friday, June 24th, 2022, saxophonist Joe Lovano's group Sound Prints (alongside trumpeter and co-leader Dave Douglas) delivered a tour de force performance to spellbound audience members at the historic Mimi Ohio Theatre in Playhouse Square as a part of Cleveland's annual Tri-C JazzFest. Seasoned group interplay between drummer Rudy Royston, bassist Matt Penman, and pianist Leo ...
Take Five with Christian de Mesones
by AAJ Staff
About Christian de Mesones Christian “Big New York" de Mesones has been playing bass guitar for decades. At 18, he graduated from the world-famous Bass Institute of Technology (now the Musician's Institute) in Hollywood, California where he studied with such greats as Abraham Laboriel, Pat Martino, and the late Tommy Tedesco. He ...
