Results for "percussion"

Jose Rosa

Born: May 11, 1974

Born and raised in Humacao, Puerto Rico, Jose has been performing on percussion instruments since he was five years old. At age 11, he started formal music lessons with Professor Jose “Tito” Rivera at the Escuela Libre De Musica de Humacao. At 12 years of age, Jose started performing with Humacao Symphonic Band under the direction of Professor German Pena Plaza. With the Humacao Symphonic Band, Jose traveled to Venezuela, New York, Costa Rica, Virgin Islands and Dominican Republic.

At age 14, Jose received formal percussion lessons from Professor Jose "Pepe" Torres at the Escuela Libre de Musica de Caguas. Under Torres direction, Jose performed with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Puerto Rico State Band and also with a variety of local bands. By the age of 17, Jose was accepted into the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music where he studied percussion with Professor Jose Alicea. Under Alicea's direction, Jose played for the America youth symphony orchestra based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1994, Jose moved to Miami, where he attended the University of Miami and Florida International University.

Rolando Matias & Afro-Rican Ensemble

Born: November 20, 1957

Closed to a decade ago, Rolando conceptualize The Afro-Rican Ensemble, with a vision and direction the Ensemble followed to national and international recognition. As an entertainer and musician, Rolando cannot be denied: a Multi-talented percussionist, Afro-Caribbean musicologist, Ethno-Foklorist and an accomplished harmonica player. Rolando has traveled the U.S. playing in a wide variety of groups, performing everything from the blues to Latin rock, and everything in between. A self-taught musician, Rolando, applied his formal training as an Architect into his musical education, seeking perfection, has sought out the greats during his travels in order to perfect his musical techniques as a percussionist, harmonica player and composer

John Tritz

Born: April 22, 1941

Born in Lexington, KY, raised in Burlington, IA, twenty years in Chicago, IL, various other locaions until retirement. Currently living in Albuquerque, NM...... more later...........

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