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Jim Munoz and Mambop

Born: June, 1959

Mambo and Be-Bop, the pulsing rhythms that make up the music of Jim Munoz's MAMBOP Latin Jazz Band is an exciting combination of driving Cuban and Puerto Rican Mambos and American Bebop Jazz as well as "Salsa Dura" Hard Salsa. MAMBOP's playlist has been selected to emphasize the fiery side of Latin Jazz that makes people want to dance as well as appreciate the artistry of jazz melodies. All of MAMBOP's band members are experienced musicians as well as young hot upcoming jazz players from local area schools. The band was founded by timbale player Jim Munoz and trombone player Jeff Austerman. They had been playing with local musicians and with the Chafee college jazz band where they met

Adriano Adewale

Throw aside preconceived musical prejudices, abandon all attempts to catalogue: a rich chemistry of cultural influences is at work in when the Adriano Adewale Group stop onto the stage. Rooted in the musical traditions of Nigeria, Angola and Brazil and infused with contemporary European classical and jazz styles, their debut album SEMENTES is a colourful cocktail of infectiously funky rhythms and intimate soulful ballads peppered with free-jazz improvisation.

Jérôme Calciné

Born: January 18, 1983

Percussions are the cores of music because they recall us to the genesis of sound: the heartbeat. If historians had to define what were the first musical devices ever created, the human voice would be the answer but percussion instruments such as hands and feet, sticks or rocks were almost certainly the next steps in the evolution of music. That’s probably what led Jérome Calciné to those instruments. Jérome Calciné is a young percussionist from La Réunion Island, a French territory in the Indian Ocean. Mastering the Afro-Cubanese basics, he also performs his traditional music, Maloya with the heartbeat sound of the Roulér percussion

Douglass Bratt

Born: 1970

Chicago area percussionist and educator, Douglass Bratt has performed at the Jazz à Vienne, North Sea and Montreux Jazz Festivals as well as noted Chicago venues such as the Green Mill, Pops for Champagne and Jazz Showcase. He has collaborated with fellow musicians Neal Alger, Tito Carrillo, JoAnn Daugherty, Joey Sellers, Brad Stirtz, Liam Teague and John Wojciechowski. In 2006, Bratt joined with saxophonist/composer, Douglas Stone, to create the Stone/Bratt Big Band, a group dedicated to the performance of original big band music. The band released their full-length debut album, Stone Bratt Big Band, in June 2008

Gloria Parker

Gloria Parker "Princess of the Marimba" has spent a lifetime creating and performing music to the delight of people of all ages. A consumate entertainer and musician, Gloria fronted several bands including the all-girl band, "Gloria Parker and the Starletts". Alphonse D'Artega wrote many of the bands musical arrangements and they played D'Artega's hit song "In The Blue Of Evening". She has wowed thousands with her musicianship on the marimba, violin, vocally, and the musical glasses. Gloria has authored hit songs, appeared in film, conducted for Judy Garland, played with the Hartford Symphony, and appeared with Lionel Hampton, who recorded many of her songs

The Corey Cook Ensemble

Born: May 17, 1988

Corey Cook has been expressing himself on percussion instruments since the age of three. While receiving little to no formal training, at twelve he joined one of Michigan's regional youth concert orchestras, performing on various sectional instruments such as the snare drum, bass drum, timpani, suspended cymbal, crash cymbals, and triangle. Later, after intensive self-study of snare drum rudiments, Corey joined a Michigan jazz combo and was able to obtain an early virtuosity of brushes seldom achieved by his peers. His single-stroke roll was particularly sought-after. Corey's first professional job a a percussionist came at age seventeen when he was paid as a snare-drummer to perform for a concert band in upper Michigan, mainly performing John Phillip Sousa-style marches and concert pieces

Ensemble FisFüz

Oriental Jazz - The Ensemble FisFüz was established in 1995 in Freiburg/Breisgau by Murat Coşkun and Annette Maye. They initially began as as duet with darbuka and clarinet, played folk songs and dances from Turkey as well as instrumental art-music from the Ottoman empire and grew one year later into a trio accompanied by the lute player Karim Othman-Hassan. The repertoire of the group expanded itself: along with the Turkish folk songs, music-pieces also came from Turkish shadow- theater, Greek and Arabic songs and instrumental music as well as the first self-compositions. The Ensemble FisFüz was complete in 1998 with Wolfgang Maye on the bass

Cyro Baptista

Born: December 23, 1950

Since arriving in the U.S. in 1980 from his native country Brazil, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the country. Coinciding with the rise in the public’s interest of world music, Cyro has managed to record and tour with some of music’s most popular names. His mastery of Brazilian percussion and the many instruments he creates himself, have catapulted him into world renown. With his own project, the percussion and dance ensemble known as 'Beat the Donkey' Cyro gives free reign to his imagination, mixing his tremendous musical skills, his natural humor and theatrical ways with instruments from Brazil, Middle East, Indonesia, Africa and US. Cyro's credits read like a "Who’s Who" of modern music

Joshua Manchester

Born: January 17, 1975

Josh believes in the power of music to express the inexpressible, and places great trust in a spirit of experimentalism and continual discovery to fulfill his vision of bettering the human mind. Joshua Manchester is an innovative performer and instructor in the field of percussion. Besides playing in numerous Chicago new music groups, he has undertaken national tours as an improviser, works with contemporary choirs and children in churches and schools, performs ensemble or solo recitals in venues such as the Green Mill, Zhou Brothers Center, Elastic Arts, and the Vittum Theater. While having a strong background in traditional music, many diverse musical influences have shaped his experience. He often collaborates and performs with new music composers, including Mei-Fang Lin and William Jason Raynovich, and has also studied composition with Herbert Brun and Susan Parenti

Oori Shalev

Born: December 14, 1979

Combines sensitive improvisation with digital machinery. Plays Indian, middle-Eastern and Western percussions. Works include, as composer: To Sing a Forest (2007, with Amelia Cuni, Seth Josel and Junko Wada). Installations: Baumberauschen (Berlin 2007), Sotavento (Mexico, Italy, Germany, 2006). Percussionist: with Anat Tuvia (2006 Morgenland Festival),4th Race (2007, Musicastrada Italy). Drummer: Tabula rasa, avant-free jazz trio, Israel 1998-02. Nigun Atik, Modern Jewish Quintet, Israel 2001-02. Russian Free Jazz Festival, with Michael Agre and Sergey Letov, Tel-Aviv 2002. Drummer in the free improvisation scene in Houston (Sep