Tag Archives: M-Base

A prolific, constantly in-demand drummer whose private, yet authoritative using continues to be heard on a large number of periods, Marvin “Smitty” Smith appears to reside in the studio room. A onetime Berklee pupil, he used Jon Hendricks’ music group in NY through the early ’80s, after that caused John …

Pianist Sam Stryke (who also functions under his provided name, Sam Struyk) was just 19 and students at Northwestern College or university, where he was learning structure, when Atlantic issued his debut, 1991’s Within the Wind, a fresh age instrumental recording which was eventually shelved. That didn’t end Stryke from …

Josh Roseman is certainly a fresh York based jazz trombonist whose existence continues to be felt within the downtown picture of improvisers in the 1990s onward. Delivered June 5, 1972 in Boston, MA, he found the trombone since it was probably the most widespread device in his home. His dad, …

Guitarist Liberty Ellman mixes highly advanced post-bop jazz with components of funk and hip-hop. His music falls approximately inside the M-Base subculture birthed by alto saxophonist Steve Coleman. Blessed in London in 1971, but elevated in the us, Ellman became a dynamic person in the Bay Area’s creative community, using …

A wild improviser, bassist Jonas Hellborg leans more toward rock and roll than jazz. Sketching motivation from Jimi Hendrix, Arabic music, and Life time, Hellborg started playing professionally within the middle-’80s. After some program function (including Pil’s Record, Ginger Baker’s Middle Passing, and periods with John McLaughlin’s brand-new Mahavishnu Orchestra), …

The older brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks, Robin Eubanks has produced his tag playing in his brother’s groups, by himself JMT releases, and getting together with lots of the top M-Base players, such as for example Steve Coleman and Greg Osby. With the capacity of playing anything from bop to …

Blues-rock/fusion guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly was created on November 23, 1960, in Chicago, IL, to parents who have been first-generation Haitians. In early stages, Bourelly learned all about Yoruba music from his grandmother, sang Rossini on the Lyric Opera Home at a decade old, and had taken both piano and drum …

b. 5 Feb 1964, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Gilmore was created right into a musical family members, his father being truly a traditional percussionist. Initially, he adopted his father however in his early teenagers the guitar started to supersede drums, the second option instrument being adopted by his sibling, Marque Gilmore. …

Delivered in 1971 to parents who have emigrated from India towards the U.S. within the ’60s, Bay Area-based composer and pianist Vijay Iyer provides led several specific combos, including Nature Organic, the Poisonous Prophets, as well as the Vijay Iyer Trio. All three groupings appeared in the musician’s 1995 debut …

Although her documenting career continues to be somewhat erratic, Cassandra Wilson became among the top jazz singers from the ’90s, a vocalist blessed with a unique and flexible voice who’s not afraid to take risks. She started playing piano and electric guitar when she was nine and was functioning being …