Monthly Archives: August 2009

Dave Smith

By amygail | Published: August 27, 2009
Dave Smith (2005-present) leads the elec­tric trom­bone band The Per­fect Man and records and per­forms as the singer Smoota. He plays trom­bone reg­u­larly with Chin Chin, Red Baraat, Rev. Vince Ander­son & the Love Choir, The Juggs, Onikam, and sev­eral other bands. Recently he has also per­formed and/or recorded with Spoon, Akron/Family, The Bog­men, El-P, Karl [...]
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Jared Michael Nickerson

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
Born in Cleve­land, Ohio, Jared Michael Nick­er­son began play­ing bass in high school in the Day­ton, Ohio tal­ent show circuit. After receiv­ing a B.A in busi­ness at Notre Dame, he stud­ied for two years at the New Eng­land Con­ser­va­tory of Music in Boston. Return­ing to Ohio, he joined the band Human Switch­board. In 1984, together [...]
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Bruce Mack

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
Brook­lyn born, Musi­cian, Com­poser, Band­leader and Music Edu­ca­tor, Bruce Mack lives in West Orange, New Jer­sey. Pri­mary instru­ments are elec­tronic key­boards, i.e.; syn­the­sizer, clavinet, organ, etc, var­i­ous per­cus­sion and voice. A band­leader for nearly 20 years, B. Mack has led bands fea­tur­ing artists such as Guru of GangStarr, Atiba Wil­son, Mark Peter­son, Me’Shell Nde­geO­cello, Mar­que Gilmore, [...]
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Rene Akan

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
Work­ing with loops, delays, har­mo­niz­ers and whammy sounds, Greg Tate has referred to Rene Akan’s sound as,“guitar set on stun”. Since appear­ing on the Black Rock Coali­tion scene with Felice Rosser’s Faith, Akan has played with Ver­non Reid, Ste­vie Ray Vaughn, Nona Hen­drix, HR (of Bad Brains), Joey Ramone, P-Funk and Ultra Nate, among oth­ers. [...]
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Thom Loubet

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
Thom Lou­bet started play­ing at the age of six on a gui­tar made by his father Jeff. He took pri­vate lessons in Albu­querque, New Mex­ico with the ven­er­a­ble Lewis Winn at twelve and still meets with him when­ever he’s in town. He spent his youth play­ing the blues in the clubs of Albu­querque, often in [...]
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“Moist” Paula Henderson

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
Bari­tone sax­o­phon­ist Moist Paula Hen­der­son is a found­ing mem­ber of the New York instru­men­tal rock band Mois­tur­izer and is in the 12th year of a weekly res­i­dency with Rev­erend Vince Ander­son & The Love Choir, Brooklyn’s favorite gospel bar band. She also released a solo “sax­tron­ica” album under the moniker Sec­re­tary and con­tin­ues to work on [...]
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Greg Tate

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
Greg Tate was a Staff Writer at The Vil­lage Voice from 1987–2003. His writ­ings on cul­ture and pol­i­tics have also been pub­lished in The New York Times, The Wash­ing­ton Post, Art­fo­rum, Rolling Stone, VIBE, Pre­miere, Essence, Suede, The Wire, One World, Down­beat, and Jaz­zTimes. He was recently acknowl­edged by The Source mag­a­zine as one of [...]
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Lisala Beatty

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
Lisala Beatty sings the way folks used to — from the soles of their feet, from the down deep of their souls. The way some­where, in a church at the side of a red clay road, some­body is still singing. Her voice is at once pow­er­ful and agile, con­trolled and utterly unfettered. A vocal­ist, song­writer [...]
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Lewis “Flip” Barnes

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
Influ­enced by Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Booker Lit­tle and Thad Jones; trum­peter, Lewis ‘Flip’ Barnes is Vir­ginia born, NYC reared and Howard Uni­ver­sity educated. In addi­tion to his work with Burnt Sugar, Barnes has lent his trum­pet, vocal and elec­tric bass stylings to bassist William Parker’s crit­i­cally acclaimed quar­tet, (which includes Rob Brown on sax­o­phone [...]
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W-Myles Reilly

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
W-Myles Reilly is a New York based, self taught pianist who Greg Tate plucked from the base­ment of the New York Shake­speare Fes­ti­val. He has per­formed with musi­cians Choco­late Genius, Robert Young and worked on dance projects with chore­o­g­ra­phers Alysia Ramos and Gabri Christa.
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André Lassalle

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
André Las­salle has played with a host of artists from the leg­endary Miles Davis, Robert Irv­ing III, Dar­ryl Jones, John Schofield, Buddy Williams, Chauncey Nedd Band, Jerry Jem­mott (Bass player for Greg All­man and Friends), Huey Lewis, Melvin Sparks, Gregg “The Pro­fes­sor” Woods, Tony Humphries, Dee-Lite  (Power Of Love Gui­tar Mix), Michael Hamp­ton from George [...]
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Swiss Chris

By amygail | Published: August 21, 2009
Swiss Chris has just fin­ished a suc­cess­ful four years as the Music Direc­tor and Drum­mer for five time Grammy win­ner, John Leg­end, and is now build­ing his own career with a forth­com­ing album to be released Inter­na­tion­ally as well as fin­ish­ing his book, Stick­ing With Swiss.  Swiss is also actively involved with his S.W.I.S.S. (Sav­ing [...]
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