Results for "percussion"

Steve Hubback

Born: December 1, 1957

As a musician I have performed all over Europe and South Korea. Have led my own groups It’s My Head and Metal Moves. Have recorded 39 albums as LP’s and CD’s Worked with many great musicians including Lim Dong Chang. Jorgen Cremonese. RL Lunding. Dietmar Diesner. Frode Gjerstad. Andrea Centazzo. Davis Moss. Paal Nielsen Love. Z’ev. Alan Wilkinson. Ad Peijnenburg. Dirk Wachtelaer. P O Jorgens. Cyrille Oswald. George Cremanschi. George Haslam and many others. I’m now performing with Celtic Harpist Nadia Birkenstock.

Victor Monge

Luca Gazzi

Self-taught musician born in 1983. Currently performing as percussionist with the Adiabatic Invariants project (experimental/contemporary music). Owner of LIARSS production label

Irakli Koiava

Born: February 27, 1979

Irakli Koiava was born on February 27th, 1979 in Tbilisi, Georgia. His interest in music began in his early childhood. In 2002 his actively began studying percussion instruments and started practicing the percussionmusic. In 2005, during Festival fur Neue Music “Close Encounters”, Irakli participated and performed in a drum masterclass with Lucas Niggli. In 2006 Koiava founded a joint project by Azerbaijani jazz musician, including Yasef Eyvazov (oud). The project was performed in Baku (Azerbaijan) in a jazz club “Caravan”. In March 2008 Irakli was invited to State Jazz Center in Baku (Azerbaijan) where he performed in a “Drummers’ Jam” festival alongside Azerbaijani and Russian musicians, namely Alexander Mashin from Russian (drums), Tofig Djabarov (percussion),Natsik Shirinov (nagara),Ruslan Guseinov (double bass), and Isfar Sarabsky (piano)

Xavier Epiard

Born: 1982

Marcus Farrar

Antibalas shekere player and vocalist since 2005, Marcus began playing music as a teen in his hometown of Charlotte, NC. Upon moving to NYC in 1999 while in his mid-twenties, he discovered the music of Fela Kuti, which spoke to him “in a way no other music had.” In addition to his love for afrobeat, Marcus has kept busy working on a number of diverse projects over the years, including time spent as session musician, drummer and singer at hip-hop label Koch Records, where he recorded for popular MCs such as MOP, Sizzla and Jim Jones. Furthermore, he has worked as a drummer in the Blue Man Group, Las Vegas production, as well as recorded and performed with a dynamic range of artists, including Jon Spencer (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion), Banda União Black, Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains), Patti Smith, Victor “Ticklah” Axlerod, and Vampire Weekend.

Juan Pastor

Drummer/percussionist and composer Juan Pastor finds himself caught between two homes: his native Lima, Peru, and the city where he has lived for the past 13 years, Chicago. As a result, both his original compositions and the sound of his ensemble, Chinchano, draw life from deep sources - Peru’s enchantingly diverse culture, history, landscapes, and folk music, and the language of North American Jazz. Pastor evokes his multifaceted story poignantly on his new recording, El Regreso (Quinto Pulso, 2019). Pastor begins his story with a lively arrangement of Wilfredo Franco Laguna's Mayoral, the album’s sole cover and a beloved Peruvian song, whose lyrics call out the oppressive racism of Spanish colonialism. Juan’s drums animate the arrangement with a powerful Afro-Peruvian “Festejo” dance rhythm, and special guest percussionists Makarito Nicasio and Edu Campos (both members of the acclaimed ensemble Peru Negro) join the rhythm section.

Carlitos Medrano

Born: February 27, 1883

Carlitos Medrano born in Havana, Cuba, began his musical studies by teaching himself to play Bongos and Congas using traditional Cuban music and Rumba as his guide. After a few years of studying, experience, and having participated in folkloric musical projects and timba, also known as Cuban Salsa, he decided to broaden his musical knowledge by beginning a course of musical studies in the Escuela de Superacion Profesional de Arte “Felix Varela y Morales” where he began to create his foundation for Latin Jazz fusion within other musical projects in Cuba. He remembers with great satisfaction and happiness having been a student of famous international Cuban percussionists such as Jose Antonio Oviedo, Ignacio Jarabe Martinez, Eliel Lazo Linares, Yaroldy Abreu, José Luis Quintana, also known as Changuito

Israel Suarez "El Piraña"

Karen "Magic Fingaz" Smith

Born: June 26, 1960

Karen "Magic Fingaz" Smith, Brooklyn Native, Philly Resident, is a Professional Percussionist, Playwright, Poet, Director, Teaching Artist, Curator and now a member of the Philadelphia Musician’s Union  Local 77 !!! Karen is a recipient of several grants including  Leeway Foundation's  Art and Change and Illuminate the Arts Grants .  Ms. Smith is the Founder, Artistic Director and Lead Percussionist of The Karen Smith Experience (formerly called Weez the Peeples) and Sistahs Laying Down Hands Collectives.  Called "Sounds of Freedom" by Philadelphia Inquirer, Ms