Results for "percussion"

Reinaldo de Jesus

Reinaldo De Jesus was born in Barrio Obrero Santurce, Puerto Rico. He began to play the "tumbadoras" at the age of ten because of inspirations such as; Giovanni Hidalgo, Ray Barreto, Cachete Maldonado, and Anthony Carrillo. In 1990, he was admitted to the Escuela Libre De Musica in Hato Rey, P.R. where he and other students founded the salsa group, Revolucion Latina. They performed all over Puerto Rico for four years. Reinaldo graduated from the "ELM" in 1996 and enrolled in the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, where he studied classical percussion. Reinaldo recorded and performed with many different musicians such as: Cultura Profetica, DLG, Charlie Cruz, Obie Bermudez, Rey Ruiz, Luis Marin, Danilo Perez, Humberto Ramirez, Eric Figueroa, and Julito Alvarado

Ikue Mori

Ikue Mori moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon formed the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. DNA enjoyed legendary cult status, while creating a new brand of radical rhythms and dissonant sounds; forever altering the face of rock music. In the mid '80s Ikue started in employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. While limited to the standard technology provided by the drum machine, she has never the less forged her own highly sensitive signature style. Through out in '90s She has subsequently collaborated with numerous improvisors throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record her own music. 1998, She was invited to perform with Ensemble Modern as the soloist along with Zeena Parkins, and composer Fred Frith, also "One hundred Aspects of the Moon" commissioned by Roulette/Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Ikue won the Distinctive Award for Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music category in 1999. In 2000 Ikue started using the laptop computer to expand on her already signature sound, thus broadening her scope of musical expression

Lucia Martinez

Born: 1982

Lucía Martínez, is a young artist with a strong background in classical, world and jazz music. A versatile multi-instrumentalist and composer, Lucía belongs to the new generation of jazz musicians in Europe, but with the flavour from the south. Her style is influenced by folk music from Galicia, flamenco and the music of the Mediterranean, together with the new avant-garde music…

Drums, percussion, compositionArtistic director of the Jazz Festival IMAXINASONS

At 9 years old she began playing percussion and hurdy-gurdy.

Degree Classical Percussion at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Vigo and Guildhall School of Music London.Advanced Musical Studies-Galician Royal Philharmonic.Besides this classical training she has focused on drums, vibraphone and jazz composition:Jazz Degree at the School of Music and Performing Arts Portugal.Jazz Master at the University of the Arts Berlin. Summa cum Laude.Film Music Master in Universität Potsdam-Babelsberg.Currently studying Master in philosophy and politics at the Uned

John Pietaro

Born: June 28, 1962

JOHN PIETARO: spoken word artist and percussionist - drum kit, conga, bongos, glockenspiel, frame drums, vibraphone, numerous small percussives; doubles include vocals, guitar. -THE RED MICROPHONE free jazz/poetry quartet with John Pietaro (poetry/percussion), Ras Moshe (reeds, flute), Rocco John Iacovone (reeds), Laurie Towers (electric bass). CDs: 'Amina Baraka & the Red Microphone' (ESP-Disk 2017); 'The Red Microphone Speaks!' (Dissident Arts 2013); "Brecht Breakdown" on IFAR Compilation "The Beat Sounds from Way Out" (IFAR, UK, 2012) -FLAMES OF DISCONTENT post-punk/neo-Beat duo with John Pietaro (poetry/electric guitar/vocals/percussion) and Laurie Towers (electric bass) -THE DISSIDENT ARTS ORCHESTRA, a large improvisatory ensemble with a roving line-up performing silent film scores often synced by New Allied Artists Studio, UK. Pietaro has often performed with RAS MOSHE's various ensembles and was a member of KARL BERGER'S IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA over its first six years (performances at the original Stone, the Jazz Gallery, El Taller)

Francois Zayas

Composer, arranger and percussionist. Born in Cuba, Zayas graduated from the Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA) in 1998. He taught there, while still a student and after graduation, for a total of four years. He was a member of the National Symphonic Orchestra of Cuba for ten years, and during this time he collaborated on different projects with bands of diverse backgrounds, including Jazz, Hip Hop, and Rock. From 1994 to his establishment in the USA in 2006, he made several international tours with different groups. In the last eight years he has collaborated with many musicians, choreographers, and educators, sometimes with his own arrangements or original compositions, at other times as an instrumentalist.

Joe Garcia

Richard Dixon

Played regularly with 12-strong soul band over a number of years for parties, weddings etc. Good solid team player with good attitude (totally usual among percussionists and drummers so have no idea why I mentioned it). Available for gigs with similar line-ups or smaller combos, eg, with piano/keyboards and bass. Also good harmonica player for any blues band wanting to get the real old-school Chicago sound. I'm not a sticks drummer. Love playing live, and have played to crowds of 2,000 in indoor and outdoor venues. Have also done some recording studio work. Although I've listed R&B/soul as my main genre, I have wide tastes and am always open to new projects where congas, bongos, guiro, tambourine, woodblocks and other real percussion is needed

The Steven McGill Project

Born: October 26, 1850

My introduction to music came by the way of my cousin Nathan Robinson aka "The Witch Doctor" when I was around 10 or 11 years old. I could sit and listen to him play all day. He gave me my first Conga Drum lessons. 1972 after graduating from San Jose State College I moved to Washington D.C. where my real instruction in Afro-Cuban drumming to place under the eyes of Baba Ingoma (The Father of the Drum) One of my class mates at the time was Barnet Williams who at the time was the Conga Drummer for Gil Scott-Heron and the Mid-Night Band. I spent 7 years under the eyes of Baba Ingoma playing in his group The African Cultural Dancers and Drummers

Roland Guerrero

Tito de Gracia

Born: April 4, 1962

Rafael Angel ‘Tito’ De Gracia was born on April 4, 1962 in Villa Palmeras, Santurce, Puerto Rico. He began playing the tumbadoras (congas) at 5 years of age and at 12 he was seriously playing the bongos and the timbales. He also studied the trumpet from 14 to 16 years old. Still in his adolescence, he joined the band Los Chiquitines del Son as a percussionist, directed by renowned guitarist Max Torres. From 1978 to 1980, he played the timbales with the salsa band Maldades, lead by pianist Archie Pereira. Later, from 1980 to 1982, he played congas with saxophonist Hector Lopez and his orchestra in San Juan, recreating the music of Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez