Results for "percussion"

Jim Pugliese

Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra

A high-energy celebration of polyphonic rhythms, Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra unifies four percussion batteries into one distinct voice: North Indian tabla, Afro Cuban bata, Brazilian samba and West African djembe. They link the past and the present, the sacred and the secular with a symphonically textured fusion of traditional and contemporary drumming and choral compositions. Spoken Hand is a two-time winner of Philadelphia City Paper’s “Best World Music/Roots Performance” and is nationally recognized for its collaboration with tabla master Zakir Hussain and hip-hop dance guru Rennie Harris in the “Flammable Contents” project.

Neil Clarke

Adrian Valosin

Adrian Valosin has training in modern classical composition, making him unique among jazz drummers. He has studied with composer and conductor Joel Thome, Joe Morello (Dave Brubeck Quartet), and South Indian classical musician Padma Srinivasan. Adrian was Artist-In-Residence at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1987-88 where he taught drum set and open improvisation. He has performed with Bern Nix, Bill Zola, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, Roy Campbell, Matt Mitchell, Sonny Simmons, Jack Six, Sid Simmons, Harry Leahy, Dill Jones, Toshi Makahari, and Herb Robertson. Adrian is also a prolific composer.

Satoshi Takeishi

Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito Japan. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

While at Berklee he developed an interest in the music of South America and went to live in Colombia following the invitation of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships.

One of the projects he worked on while in Colombia was ‘Macumbia’ with composer & arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional, jazz and classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra in a series of concerts honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes.

Janine Santana Latin Jazz

Born: January 1, 1968

Conceptualized, organized, led and driven by Janine Santana, the Janine Santana band is a collaboration of rotating Jazz, Funk and Latin Jazz artists nationally and in the Denver area, all of whom are luminary! With many years of experience under these musicians belts, this band comes together with an exciting, danceable sound that packs the house and brings people back for more! Performing with legends and favorites: Richie Cole, Jose Madera,Brad Goode, Greg Gisbert, Jeff Jenkins, Lionel Young, Kim Stone, Bijoux Barbosa, Papi Ray Pacheco, Paul Romaine, Peter Gregory, Chris Lacinak, Jimmy Espirit, Ben Makinen, Wendy Fopeano, Kihn Imuri, Janine Santana's Latin Jazz will have you coming back for more. Janine Santana Of Puerto Rican descent, Via Brooklyn, NY and Trenton, NJ Janine Santana has had a deep love for Afro-Cuban/ Caribbean traditions and Jazz for as long as she can remember

Felix Higginbottom

Born: 1991

Born into an extremely musical family, Felix began his life as a chorister and cellist – an upbringing he accredits 90% of his musicianship to. However, a teenage rebellion soon shifted his gaze to pots and pans, and after receiving a BBC Young Musician’s grant he moved to London to continue his studies. Since the age of eight Felix began touring internationally, a lifestyle that has taken him as far as Japan and back (twice). One of the latest in a generation of musicians making a splash in London, Felix hails straight from the ranks of the UK’s most prestigious jazz establishment – the National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Terje Evensen

Born: January 27, 1978

Evensen is a specialist in improvised modern jazz music combined with electro elements. He is adept in working with acoustic samples/recordings and mixing them together on an electro palette. He is always experimenting within a wonderland where different genres cross over – where jazz meets ambient, and electronica – creating spacious and dramatic soundscapes of profound intensity. Although well versed in many styles and genres Evensen’s solo album Still you. You still here (2010) is a quintessential example of the core of his work, consisting purely of percussion and electronics

Julian Gerstin

Born: November 27, 1953

Julian Gerstin, PhD is a percussionist, composer and ethnomusicologist. At the Vermont Jazz Center, Julian co-leads the Latin Jazz Ensemble with Eugene Uman and the Samba Ensemble with Ron Kelly, and runs a Rhythm Theory course at the Summer Jazz Workshop. He also serves on the VJC Board as President and a member of the Grants Committee.

Julian’s percussive explorations have led him to study and perform folk traditions of Ghana, Cuba, Martinique, Brazil and other African/Diasporic countries, as well popular styles of Nigeria, South Africa, Martinique, Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad, Jamaica, Mexico and others. His work in jazz has ranged from New Orleans brass bands to avant-garde experimentalism. He has toured and recorded with numerous world music acts including Baba Ken Okulolo and Zulu Spear. Julian currently leads the Julian Gerstin Sextet, playing his compositions of jazz influenced by Caribbean and Balkan music, and works with the Latin jazz group Trio Mambo, Puerto Rican folkloric dance ensemble Bomba de Aquí, and the Pioneer Valley Arab Music Ensemble. He has composed for and accompanied numerous theater, dance and choral ensembles.

Humanfolk

HUMANFOLK is a world music project between guitarist-composer Johnny Alegre and the percussionist Susie Ibarra with drummer Roberto Juan Rodriguez. Together with the singer-multi-instrumentalist Cynthia Alexander and electronic musician Malek Lopez, they recorded a suite written by Alegre entitled "Humanfolk", that subsequently became the name of the concept group. Johnny Alegre's breakthrough recording with Ron McClure and Billy Hart, "Johnny Alegre 3", was released by MCA Music (Universal Music Group). His earlier albums appeared under the Candid Records label. New York based Susie Ibarra is a rising star in the rarefied ethno-musical and avant-garde jazz landscapes of recent times, with a cachet of recordings and formidable collaborations with Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Mark Dresser, David S