They also got a percussionist, so we have a drummer and a percussionist with two guitars.
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Then, joined by the stunning 33-year-old Austrian percussionist Martin Grubinger, Mr. Gilbert led the New York premiere of John Corigliano's "Conjurer": Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra and Brass (2007).
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His expert band this evening includes the saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, the trumpeter and percussionist Etienne Charles, the bassist Dezron Douglas, the drummer Dion Parson, the percussionist Abdou Mboup, and the vocalist Venissa Santi.
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Rudolph is a master convener, as well as a talented percussionist.
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They gathered other musicians, including Anselmo Netto, a percussionist from Brazil.
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On the dusty floor, percussionist Ivan Farias toggles between congas and tambourine.
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Thor Harris is a percussionist, writer, carpenter and full-time Texan weirdo.
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Among his colleagues in Mr. Davis's band was the percussionist James Mtume.
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That's especially the case when she's working with the percussionist Satoshi Takeishi.
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Instrumentalists include the pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and the percussionist Ayano Kataoka.
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She is also a Brazilian percussionist with the band Batalá New York.
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That's especially the case when she's working with the percussionist Satoshi Taeishi.
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Joe Reynolds, a band percussionist, kicked off the performance on a hand drum.
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Mr. Adès said that he was a percussionist when he was a student.
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His ensemble partners were equally diverse: a violist, a trombonist and a percussionist.
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Dawson, 29, is the drummer and percussionist for the rock band All Time Low.
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"Slipknot's whole recording session just stunk," remembers co-founder and percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan.
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The tenor saxophonist Maria Grand and the percussionist Roman Diaz appear as special guests.
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He's among the most-called-upon drummer and percussionist on the avant-garde today.
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Before the percussionist leaves, he fails to produce the sound that matches her gesture.
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Subsequent performances will feature the singer Xiomara Laugart (Monday); the tenor saxophonist and percussionist Yosvany Terry (Thursday); and the percussionist Pedrito Martínez, drawing from his new album, "Habana Dreams," with a featured appearance by the great sonero Issac Delgado (May 8). (symphonyspace.org.)
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"There's been a ton of problems I've faced as a female percussionist," she tells CNN.
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Mr. Torres, a percussionist from Bogotá, Colombia, is deeply experienced in Latin pop and jazz.
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Ruairi Glasheen is an award-winning percussionist, composer, documentary-maker and educator based in London.
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The Dresden-born percussionist helped reshape the sound of rock music in the 1970s and beyond.
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Facebook tapped artists like indie artist Kiri Tse, percussionist Jim Santi Owen, and film composer Lyle Workman.
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Though many country acts eschewed a drummer, Fontana served as an on-call percussionist for the production.
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For one, a percussionist plays a diverse array of instruments and therefore lacks a singular soloist's voice.
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The percussionist Fiona Digney, pummelling a conspicuously coffin-like apparatus, made a sound to wake the dead.
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An earlier version of this review, using information from Feinstein's/54 Below, misidentified the drummer and percussionist.
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One little boy standing next to a percussionist flailing away at drums reacted by smiling and dancing.
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Her marriages to the percussionist Morris (Arnie) Lang and to Mr. Medina, a journalist, ended in divorce.
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Ms. Ibarra, a drummer, percussionist and composer, makes subtly illustrative music as the leader of various ensembles.
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She appears here with Mr. Galaganov, a percussionist who builds structures sparingly, and Mr. Marcelo, a pianist.
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The percussionist, Gregory LaRosa, had an especially fine time, playing drum, bass drum, triangle and wind machine.
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Antonio (El Chupete) Rodriguez (the brother of the percussionist) is a dancer who seems to know everything.
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She's a multitalented musician who left a percussionist post with Lionel Ritchie for a stab at solo stardom.
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His other partners are the drummer Justin Faulkner, the percussionist Mauricio Herrera and the chameleonic vocalist Chris Turner.
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Mr. Sanabria, a New York percussionist, is a masterful practitioner and a respected historian of Afro-Latin drumming.
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The saxophonist Joseph Jarman and the percussionist Famoudou Don Moye limped in, clutching each other, swearing and drinking.
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Bobby Sanabria, a drummer and percussionist from the area, will serve as the music hall's co-artistic director.
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They include the Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez, the American pianist Larry Willis and the Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana.
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They also recorded a 1997 album under the name of Turn On, which also features Stereolab percussionist Andy Ramsay.
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Under "achievements," he says he has been a percussionist since the late 1970s and has been in several bands.
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The company brought not just two guitarists, three singers and a percussionist, but also a cellist and a pianist.
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The piece began as a riotous improvisation by Mr. Mitchell, the pianist Craig Taborn and the percussionist Kikanju Baku.
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That was what drew 29-year-old Melody Loveless, who is classically trained as a percussionist, into the scene.
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On Saturday afternoon, Mr. Madera and Mr. Rodríguez joined their fellow percussionist Annette Aguilar in hosting a master class.
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She was born in Beijing to a mother who was a dancer and a father who was a percussionist.
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He also toured with the percussionist Tito Puente and was music director of his Golden Latin Jazz All-Stars.
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Gorillaz Sound System will also make an appearance, a four-person project including a DJ, drummer, percussionist, and visual director.
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The festival, which takes place in the town of Geilo, is the brainchild of Terje Isungset, a famous Norwegian percussionist.
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The sounds are played by string musicians Adrienne Rönmark and Eric Nowlin and percussionist Joseph Becker who plays the marimba.
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His backing band—the multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, the trombonist Dave Nelson, and the percussionist Marlon Patton—added spontaneous ornamentation.
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In various tracks and sessions it collaborated with the percussionist Carlinhos Brown and Xavante Indian musicians from Mato Grosso state.
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Shayna Dunkelman, a dynamic percussionist, drove episodes of the piece with pummeling drum bursts one moment, tingling effects the next.
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The JACK Quartet, the pianist Stephen Gosling, the percussionist Tyshawn Sorey and the vibraphonist Sae Hashimoto all made multiple appearances.
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A violinist and a percussionist stand in for the different personality components that interact with each other in I.F.S. therapy.
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Mr. Martínez, a percussionist and vocalist, comes from Havana's Cayo Hueso neighborhood, where he, too, was a kind of prodigy.
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I.A., Santigold), and served as a co-producer, co-writer and percussionist (she played timbales on the single "Like Sugar").
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Fernando Nuñez, a percussionist, lives in the same house that his forebears, freed African slaves, moved into way back in 1837.
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His energetic banging of a hand drum during the "Orfeo" prelude suggested that he could find side work as a percussionist.
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Zack Winokur directs the bass-baritone Davóne Tines, the flutist Emi Ferguson, the percussionist Jonny Allen and the guitarist Jordan Dodson.
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Mr. Takeishi, a percussionist, hails from Japan but draws much of his inspiration from the music of South America, particularly Colombia.
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"Jason, in a way, allowed me to become a musician, to become a percussionist," Ms. Jonas said in a phone interview.
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Her "Dies Irae," from 1973, calls for eight double basses, a piano and a percussionist who pounds a large wooden box.
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The band's guitarist is from Ghana, its drummer from Trinidad, its percussionist from Brazil and its saxophonist and producer from Australia.
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This percussionist, electronic musician and full-scope sound experimentalist can create an entire world of sonic encounter using just her laptop.
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In a recent video, Meher Malik performed to a viral cover of the intense theme by fellow Indian percussionist Karan Chitra Deshmukh.
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The creation was eventually given to the singer and percussionist Sheila E., who transformed the song into a top dance hit. 7.
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Daphne Guinness said, "One wants one for one's living room," and admired a percussionist who stared impassively at her through the glass.
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Among the performers are the vocalist John Taylor Ward, the pianist Lee Dionne, the guitarist Dan Lippel and the percussionist Doug Perry.
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For eight straight years, from 19853 to 1990, Mr. Vasconcelos was voted the world's best percussionist in the DownBeat magazine critics' poll.
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In one song, a percussionist strikes an underwater gong and moves the microphone closer to the instruments to create a wavelike effect.
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That's the great thing about being a percussionist—I'm always using my hands and keeping myself active no matter where I am.
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She is joined by Burton Greene, the pianist from "Sings," as well as the bassist Mario Pavone and the percussionist Barry Altschul.
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Mr. Padrón will also welcome a couple of special guests: the inimitable percussionist and folklorist Roman Diaz and the drummer Kenny Grohowski.
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Last December, multi-instrumentalist and acclaimed percussionist Deantoni Parks (Flying Lotus, The Mars Volta) dropped his sophomore solo LP Technoself on Leaving Records.
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People could tell which woodwind player was actually creating that eerie effect, or which newfangled contraption the percussionist was busily banging away on.
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Bobby Sanabria is a leading Cuban percussionist and historian of the Afro-Cuban folkloric tradition, as well as others from across Latin America.
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But he was, and remains, a performing percussionist, and developed close relationships with composers like Pierre Boulez and Oliver Knussen; musicians trusted him.
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Here Rob Knopper, a percussionist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, performs Bach, as part of his web series helping musicians prepare for auditions.
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There is something awesomely confounding about the music of Tyshawn Sorey, the thirty-eight-year-old Newark-born composer, percussionist, pianist, and trombonist.
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The quartet features the keyboardist Scott Kinsey, the percussionist and vocalist Arto Tuncboyaciyan, the electric bassist Matthew Garrison and the drummer Gary Novak.
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In John Corigliano's "Conjurer," a percussion concerto, players kept pace with the sonic frenzy unleashed by Martin Grubinger, the hyperkinetic young Austrian percussionist.
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In Luna Pearl Woolf's "Mélange à trois," a violinist, a cellist and a percussionist enact a terse psychodrama built out of musical gestures.
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Alan Pierson conducted a 15-member orchestra, with Chris Thompson, the percussionist, accorded a solo, actually playing on that metal ring framing the orchestra.
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As his brother tried to diffuse the situation, a percussionist hit him in the head with a trophy while shouting more anti-gay slurs.
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Sam Wilson, a percussionist and vocalist joined the group; as did a guitarist, Jack Ross; a tuba player, Tom Kelly; and, later, Ms. Cutter.
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Also noting that few female composers have written for his instrument, Mr. Grubinger, a percussionist, finds Ms. Neuwirth's music to reflect an uncompromising personality.
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Flanked by two backing vocalists, a percussionist, a drummer and a bassist, Josh and Tom played, sang in falsetto and danced around on stage.
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Meanwhile, a Geico ad makes its point with an assist from Bach's "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 3 — and a clueless percussionist shredding a triangle solo.
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Ms. Chase brought a substantial warehouse of tools to this meeting, venturing some whispery timbres while the percussionist was gently manipulating a small gong.
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Things come to a head on Saturday: A family concert featuring the drummer, percussionist and educator Bobby Sanabria kicks things off at 230 a.m.
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Mr. Finlayson is joined here by the baritone Andre Solomon Glover, the pianist David Bryant, the bassist Chris Tordini and the percussionist Craig Weinrib.
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The guitarist Robert Belinic and the percussionist Marcelina Suchocka were quietly joined for the last section by Mr. Morris himself, unannounced but playing castanets.
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He draws here from his new album, "Landscapes," with the pianist Rick Germanson, the bassist Ugonna Okegwo and the drummer and percussionist Emilio Valdés.
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With the percussionist David Hawkins adding thick mallet strokes on a second drum kit, Mr. Murray kept up a thunderous and slant-fit groove.
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I placed myself near a percussionist at one side, while the two woodwind players serenaded the majority of the audience at the opposite end.
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Miles Davis was famously known for his use of the word and upon meeting him for the first time, Miles called percussionist Cinelu a motherfucker.
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But instead of mastering the walk-to-crawl transition like most one-year-olds, he's well on his way to becoming a bonafide jazz percussionist.
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In the Zen Buddhist ceremony, the percussionist uses a woodblock called a mokugyo, and each time they hit it, they chant one syllable of sutra.
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I love them partly because I shared the excitement willy-nilly, living next door to the percussionist Gary Schall, who figures on all three discs.
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In "Himmels-Tür" ("Heaven's Door"), the fourth hour, a percussionist (Stuart Gerber) beats with uneven rhythms on a grand set of doors, which finally open.
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The troupe's founders — the dancer and choreographer Myriam Allard and the singer and director Hedi Graja; the percussionist Miguel Medina; and a guitarist, Caroline Planté.
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The band doesn't have the same roots in disco as me—our percussionist Martin Windstad knows most of the tracks, but he isn't a scholar.
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But for the renowned percussionist, drumming has never been about sex or gender — even if it was for the people who tried to stop her.
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In January, the orchestra conductor and percussionist Steven Schick led a concerto at the seaward end of the wall out west, still on Kumeyaay land.
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But Mr. Akiho, an imaginative composer and percussionist known for playing the steel pan and found instruments, said his concerto shouldn't be taken too seriously.
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At Roulette, they will perform with the Venezuelan percussionist Gustavo Ovalles, a longtime collaborator of Mr. Sosa's who appears as a guest on the album.
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The brilliant performers — Carter Brey, cellist; Steven Beck, pianist; and Daniel Druckman, percussionist — produced all manner of haunting effects: dry scrapes, ominous rumbles, jarring crashes.
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He started playing Latin jazz with the percussionist Willie Bobo while still in high school, and soon after graduation he joined Gerald Wilson's big band.
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The name Ndugu, given to him by the percussionist James Mtume in the early 1970s, is Swahili for "earth brother," a family member or comrade.
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Another hint of this performance style's serene power can be heard on an excerpt, posted on Soundcloud, from her collaboration with the percussionist Jop Schellekens.
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The bride's father is the director of percussion studies at N.Y.U. Steinhardt and the principal percussionist of the American Symphony Orchestra, both in New York.
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The group later added the bassist Berry Oakley, the percussionist Jai Johanny Johanson (known as Jaimoe) and Mr. Betts and became the Allman Brothers Band.
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The pianist Phillip Bush and the percussionist Greg Stuart have recorded it for New World; last fall, they played it at Redcat, in Los Angeles.
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After an intermission, O'Connell will retake the stage with a new 10-piece group, Bill O'Connell's Afro-Caribbean Ensemble, featuring the master percussionist Roman Díaz.
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Ying-Hsueh Chen, a Taiwanese-born percussionist based in Copenhagen captures that quality well here, and she doesn't let go until Ligeti's almost comically static coda.
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The percussionist and conductor Steven Schick said in a phone interview that Mr. Chou had blended disparate influences into a musical language that was fully his.
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Some of the debut tracks include those from artists like singer-songwriter Kiri Tse, Indian percussionist Jim Santi Owen and guitarist and film composer Lyle Workman.
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An Oakland native who studied nutrition, Donna Kellog worked at Highwire Coffee Roasters in Berkeley and was a percussionist and graduate of San Francisco State University.
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One of the highlights thus far was a recent improvised performance by cellist Tomeka Reid in collaboration with percussionist Adam Vida and visual artist Selina Trepp.
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The acoustic sounds derived from recordings Longstreth made of the virtuoso percussionist Mauro Refosco, who backs Thom Yorke and Flea in the band Atoms for Peace.
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Whether it's a drum kit or a vibraphone or a set of bells, the percussionist Ches Smith attacks his instruments with a stark, space-clearing power.
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The standout performance went to Robert Piotrowicz and the Ensemble Phoenix Basel, a group founded by pianist Jürg Henneberger, flutist Christoph Bösch, and percussionist Daniel Buess.
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When the superstar percussionist asked Silva how he felt, the Brazilian told him that he felt like had "nothing to prove" going into the London showdown.
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In addition to Emerson, the band included bassist Greg Lake, formerly of King Crimson, and drummer and percussionist Carl Palmer, a veteran of several famous English bands.
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The master percussionist is accompanied by two sons and five of his grandchildren playing rhythmic, fast-tempo folk music on an accordion, violins and a darbuka drum.
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The aim of his band, which features singer Jose Salinas, percussionist Miguel Hiroshi and dancer Joaquin Ruiz, is to fuse old and new to create something unique.
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Maotik has worked with scientists, sound artists, and even the experimental percussionist Diego Espinosa, who used a balloon as a musical instrument in their project, Six Drawings.
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The album, suffused with South American and Afro-Cuban rhythms, reunites Mr. Greene with the Brazilian percussionist Rogério Boccato, who taught at the Hartt School in Hartford.
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And while Mr. Grimes may seem like the percussionist of the two, their juxtaposition brought out a rhythmic exactness in Lil Buck that we don't always see.
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I shared a flat with another bass player who had something going with former Blodwyn Pig saxophonist, Jack Lancaster and former Tyrannosaurus Rex percussionist, Steve Peregrin Took.
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Mr. Weston met musicians from across the African diaspora, including the Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji, the Cuban percussionist Cándido Camero and the Sierra Leonean drummer Asadata Dafora.
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The frequently hard-riffing interplay between the flutist and typist — at the Kitchen, it was percussionist Nathan Davis — proved lively across each of the work's three sections.
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Mr. Langhorne recorded with a wide variety of musicians, including the South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, the Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji and the American folk singer Odetta.
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Will Chase (actor who played Chris, the G.I., in multiple productions) I used to make fun of it when I was a longhaired percussionist at Oberlin College.
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It finds this Havana-born virtuoso percussionist and vocalist collaborating with Wynton Marsalis, the jazz trumpeter; Rubén Blades, the salsa vocalist; and Telmary Díaz, the Cuban rapper.
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His new album, "The African Nubian Suite," features contributions from the poet Jayne Cortez, the writer and healer Wayne Chandler, the Cuban percussionist Cándido Camero and others.
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So too for Pasqually E. Pieplate, pizza chef and acclaimed percussionist, who always managed to keep a beat even if his arms couldn't reach the high hat.
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The percussionist and singer Román Díaz opens his spirited recent album, "L'ó dá fún Bàtá" (Motéma), with a vocal invocation to Eleguá, the Yoruban lord of the crossroads.
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This will be its New York premiere, with Mr. Payton alongside the keyboardist Anthony Wonsey, the bassist Vicente Archer, the drummer Joe Dyson and the percussionist Daniel Sadownick.
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This will be its New York debut, with Mr. Payton alongside the keyboardist Anthony Wonsey, the bassist Vicente Archer, the drummer Joe Dyson and the percussionist Daniel Sadownick.
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After the soprano's ethereal voice has faded and as the rich orchestration dissipates, a percussionist slowly rubs it in circular motions on the surface of a bass drum.
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Since he was playing with a group including art-metal bassist Toby Driver and the avant-jazz percussionist Ches Smith, I expected — and heard — some complexly pummeling pieces.
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Mr. Clayton, a pianist with a lissome and prayerful touch, leads a quartet here featuring the bassist Yunior Terry, the drummer Obed Calvaire and the percussionist Gabo Lungo.
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Philip Bailey — the vocalist, percussionist and central member of Earth, Wind & Fire — became aware of this when he first heard the keyboardist Robert Glasper a few years ago.
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The coming season at the Schimmel, a performing arts center operated by Pace University, will feature a range of performers, including Caroline Rhea and Wilco's percussionist Glenn Kotche.
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The sound and the colors are warm, enveloping; the vocalist Aditya Prakas and percussionist BC Manjunath sit on the floor of what looks like a lavish living room.
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On Sunday it arrives at the summer music festival Caramoor in Katonah, N.Y., where it will be played by more than 13 musicians, led by percussionist Doug Perkins.
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On Saturday, Neena Prasad presents a program of original pieces accompanied by the composer and vocalist Madhavan Nampoothiri, the percussionist K. P. Ramesh Babu and the violinist Padmanabha.
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A New Orleans pianist and a Havana-born percussionist, Mr. Crawford and Mr. Martinez are two former prodigies who hail from opposite sides of the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Scottish percussionist, already a Dame, has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12; she hears her music with other parts of her body, literally feeling the rhythm.
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This cover of the original theme by Ramin Djawadi has been performed by Indian percussionist Karan Chitra Deshmukh with the tabla, a percussion traditional instrument played across south Asia.
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But this tribute to the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, the singer Ella Fitzgerald, the percussionist Mongo Santamaría and the pianist Thelonious Monk is also notable for the present-day personnel.
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As staged in New York, the concerto will showcase two soloists — a violinist, Elizabeth Zeltser of the Philharmonic, and a percussionist, David Cossin — at the front of the stage.
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Mr. Loibner often partners with D.J.s and folk ensembles from different traditions, and with a trumpeter and percussionist in Brot und Sterne, a trio known for trancelike jazz improvisations.
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"Our meetings with Pauline gave us a process she approved shortly before she passed away," said Ross Karre, a percussionist and an artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble.
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Shabazz Palaces pairs Ishmael Butler, the rapper who was known as Butterfly in the group Digable Planets and now also goes by Palaceer Lazaro, with the percussionist Tendai Maraire.
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A few Thursdays ago, one of the restaurant's staff approached "Wicked" Gary Fritz, a percussionist who plays with the Hip, and asked when things were going to wind down.
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One of the most astonishing numbers in the show is a castanet solo by the percussionist David (Chupete) Rodriguez, who sits alone, center stage, in a pool of light.
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The one-year-old percussionist is delighting the Internet with his winsome smile and stellar drumming videos, which his parents, Shelana and Justin Wilson, post for a delighted Facebook audience.
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Singer, songwriter, and live percussionist Yoni sings songs of sorrow and self-pity, lacing his rhymes and melodies with witty gut punches that mostly land squarely on his own stomach.
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Cyro Baptista (Friday through Sunday) Mr. Baptista, an irrepressibly kinetic percussionist originally from São Paulo, Brazil, leads two distinct projects this weekend, presenting them one after the other each night.
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Several of the players, who had befriended Mr. Salerni during his time on the crew, had been hoping he would make it, said Kyle Brightwell, a percussionist with the orchestra.
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The show featured the guitarist Eduardo Trassierra, the singer José Ángel Carmona and the percussionist José Manuel Ramos, who faced off with Ms. Molina in a sleek, knuckle-rapping duet.
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Along with dance groups, including his own, it will feature musicians like the Chennai percussionist V. Selvaganesh, whom Mr. Morris recalled watching on an outdoor stage during his second trip.
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But Harrison Honor, a principal percussionist in the orchestra, went beyond that, evidently having mastered a particular rolling-thunder style also heard in performances by the Japanese drumming troupe Kodo.
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These shows will be the first for this 2258-piece band, which includes the remarkable saxophonists Roman Filiu and Chris Cheek, the pianist Manuel Valera, and the percussionist Roberto Quintero.
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The theater director Richard Eyre and the percussionist Evelyne Glennie, who are already a knight and dame, were made Companions of Honor, a special award for service of national importance.
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A master percussionist and eminence of Chicago's creative music scene, Kahil El'Zabar channels a deep sense of history into his music, coming away with something timeless and universal and enchanted.
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The sirens were the opening shot in a set of "Drumkit Quartets" by the percussionist-composer Glenn Kotche, who is best known for his work with the alt-rock band Wilco.
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His son Dhani Harrison took acoustic guitar duties, Sam Brown (daughter of his close friend and fellow musician, Joe Brown) shared lead vocals, and famed percussionist Ray Cooper manned the tambourine.
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Known for her hit record "The Glamorous Life", the singer and percussionist, 58, spoke to PEOPLE shortly after news broke April 21 that her former love and longtime collaborator had died.
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Mr. Oliver is a percussionist with the Octave Doktors, and he needed to get to band practice, so he headed toward Attorney Street, where he lives with his cat, Alma Louisa.
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Perhaps that's because the emancipation of the percussionist in Western music, from back-row timekeeper and special-effects dispenser to star attraction, encouraged a rebellious bent that continues to question conventions.
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Malik Stewart, percussionist, 25, Washington, DC I started taking drumming more seriously as a career around 2013, when I was in the Howard University marching band, which led to street performances.
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Ms. Wang, hammering ostinato chords with immense force that belied her small frame, didn't have the look of a soloist with accompaniment, but of a percussionist among others in an ensemble.
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For "Calling Glenn," she has collaborated with the percussionist Glenn Kotche of the alt-rock band Wilco to create a feverous sonic world that matches her company's captivating precision and intensity.
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He offers a taste of that material with his long-running band, which includes the saxophonists T. K. Blue and Billy Harper, the bassist Alex Blake and the percussionist Neil Clarke.
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After all, they have a percussionist for their new album, We Are Not Your Kind, that Taylor has called "tortilla face," because he wears a mask that looks like a tortilla.
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More recently, musicians seeking direct mentorship have been wise to seek out the Cuban folkloric percussionist, singer and poet Román Díaz, who runs the Midnight Rumba at Zinc Bar every Thursday.
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Mr. Cresswell had been the band's percussionist; since he could only carry a few small drums, he began improvising on the street, which meant he would use surrounding objects as well.
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The percussionist Amy Garapic leads this performance, which includes Greg Saunier (from the indie band Deerhoof), Brian Chase (from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and a slew of percussion groups from the city.
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Farruquito's colleagues — four vocalists (Encarna Anillo, Pepe de Pura, Mari Vizarraga, Antonio Zuniga), José Gálvez and Román Vicenti (toque and guitar), and the percussionist El Polito — all enlarged the world of flamenco.
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"It's not about genders anymore, it's about delivery," she says, adding that while some view her as a trailblazer or simply a percussionist, others still don't know what to make of her.
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In addition to its core quartet of Berne, the clarinetist Oscar Noriega, the pianist Matt Mitchell and the percussionist Ches Smith, it is augmented on that album by the guitarist Marc Ducret.
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The couple met in 2001 when the groom was hired to be the percussionist at special musical services at North Shore Synagogue in Syosset, N.Y., where the bride was then a congregant.
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A MINUS Mariem Hassan & Vadiya Mint El Hanevi: Baila Sahara Baila (Nubenegra) Right, Spanish speakers, it's a Saharan dance album where Hassan's indomitable voice is augmented by percussionist-dancer Hanevi's chirpier one.
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But with her new trio, Flyways, featuring the vocalist and percussionist Anaïs Maviel and the bassist Rashaan Carter, Rosenbloom leaves loads of empty space; she's inviting you to relax inside her restlessness.
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Along with Mr. Blake, the lineup will feature the pianist Fred Hersch, the singer-songwriters Becca Stevens and Jean Rohe, the percussionist Rogério Boccato and the Colombian folk group La Cumbiamba eNeYé.
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This seems like an unpromising beginning for an evening's entertainment, but Soper and a trio of fellow-musicians—a flutist, a violinist, and a percussionist—succeed at once in animating the material.
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What was once a thundering ensemble of at least six musicians is now just three old stalwarts: Bob Weir on guitar and vocals, backed by drummer Billy Kreutzmann and percussionist Mickey Hart.
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J.P. This crystalline, shimmering instrumental, at once animated and serene, comes from an international coalition: the Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, the Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita and the Venezuelan percussionist Gustavo Ovalles.
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Z'ev, a percussionist, performer, composer, instrument builder, visual artist, poet and theorist who explored visceral and mystical dimensions of sound — becoming a pioneer of industrial music along the way — died on Dec.
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Highlights include the quartet from his superb recent album, "Vista Accumulation" (Tuesday); an intriguing pair of ensembles anchored by the drummer Kate Gentile (Wednesday); and a duo with the percussionist Ches Smith (Thursday).
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No stranger to show business, the 26-year-old musician from Oakland, California, is the oldest child of Juanita Escovedo and her husband, Pete, a percussionist best known for his work with Santana.
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With his portion of the proceeds, Mr. Fritz, a percussionist and D.J., hoped to rent a new home with enough space for his music gear and decades of family furniture, heirlooms and antiques.
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Mixed by the band's percussionist Erik Bodin, the set features everything from 90s hip-hop to sunny reggae, Jay Dilla, Eve, an Eritrean organ-song, and a few dashes of blissful house music.
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Once a percussionist and co-founding member of go-go band TOB, Yung Gleesh traded his sticks for a mic in what was, perhaps, one of the most successful moves from the genre.
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One of those was Tom Belhom, the French solo percussionist, and another was Christine Ott, who plays the ondes Martenot (an early electronic instrument that was around the time Smith's films were made).
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He collaborated not just with fellow dancers but also with musicians and artists, like Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris and the percussionist David Moss, all the while teaching, choreographing and performing around the world.
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I used to look in hope at the red, yellow and blue jacket that I took home after a percussionist, probably little older than I was, threw it to me in the crowd.
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In Sun of Goldfinger, his trio with the saxophonist Tim Berne and the percussionist Ches Smith, he moves between turbid cloudscapes and high, searing tones, toying with a vast range of sonic frequencies.
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At this afternoon show at National Sawdust, the Williamsburg nonprofit space where she's an artist in residence, Ms. Honda will play electronic music along with a percussionist and a pair of tap dancers.
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The band features three South African musicians — the trumpeter Lesedi Ntsane, the saxophonist Abraham Mennen and the drummer Kesivan Naidoo — and two New Yorkers, the bassist William Parker and the percussionist Dan Kurfirst.
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The first release on the Empty Editions label is a vinyl LP by New York-based percussionist Eli Keszler, which has already sold out its first pressing; other music and print books will follow.
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Her mother a dancer, her father a percussionist, Ms Wang inherited a love of "hot-blooded" composers, particularly the "Russian Romantics" such as Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and an appreciation of the performative arts.
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He has a new album, "Landscapes," which seems likely to provide some of the material for this band with the pianist Rick Germanson, the bassist Ira Coleman and the drummer and percussionist Bobby Sanabria.
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The catalyst, he said, was when his father, who is a percussionist in the San Antonio Symphony, inherited his parents' home and wanted to discuss how to invest the money when he sold it.
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Over the past few years, the post has gone from a choreographer (Mark Morris) to a pianist (Jeremy Denk) to a percussionist (Steven Schick); this year, the leader is the stage director Peter Sellars.
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After recording his second album, "Amazonas," in Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Vasconcelos entered into a long-running collaboration with Mr. Gismonti before joining the Pat Metheny Group as a singer and percussionist in 1981.
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Henze, who met Montejo in Cuba, described "El Cimarrón" as a "recital for four musicians," here the bass-baritone Davóne Tines, the flutist Emi Ferguson, the percussionist Jonny Allen and the guitarist Jordan Dodson.
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Here you can see three of the Dal Niente players handing off the figure: a percussionist at the back of the ensemble; a harpist scraping strings vertically; a pianist reaching inside the instrument's body.
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On his new album, "At the Edge of the World," Goldberg is joined by the bassist Matt Penman and the (all-too-rarely heard) drummer and percussionist Leon Parker, whose strategy is more effervescent.
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Together with the bassist Gabe Noel and the electronic percussionist Philippe Melanson, Gendel builds a rubbery sound-space out of the influences of U.K. jungle, ambient music, underground hip-hop and American Minimalism. RUSSONELLO
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Sipping cocktails and nibbling canapés on a terrace overlooking the MoMA sculpture garden, the 150 or so guests were entertained by the musician Butterscotch, a "retro-futuristic, voice percussionist virtuosa," as her website says.
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For his debut at Dizzy's he presents a program, "A Night in Havana," featuring the bassist Alex Smith, the drummer Mark Whitfield Jr., the vibraphonist and percussionist Felipe Fournier, and the vocalist Xiomara Laugart.
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Here they present "Blind Spot," pairing excerpts from Mr. Cole's new book on photography with music composed by Mr. Iyer, who will perform with the bassist Linda Oh and the mallet percussionist Patricia Brennan.
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The art music composer Ryan Lott, the experimental drummer and percussionist Ian Chang and the jazz-schooled guitarist Rafiq Bhatia have forged their talents to create airy, unconventional pop under the name Son Lux.
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Percussionist Tim Cooper and bassist Brian Vasallo churn out a consistently hypnotic groove that allowed guitarists Rishi Arora and Dave Masters to perform breathtaking and expressive harmonies that float beneath you and lift you up.
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Throughout the record, we hear Cummings' vocals alongside a small choir; the delicate pedal steel work of the revered British guitarist B.J. Cole; Brazilian percussionist Domenico Lancellotti on the triangle; and a small horn section.
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Drawing from his recent debut album, "The Bronx Pyramid," he leads a band with the trumpeter Mike Rodriguez, the saxophonist Felipe Lamoglia, the pianist Rob Rodriguez, the drummer Ali Jackson and the percussionist Bobby Allende.
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When trumpet-player Yelfris Valdes, electronic producer Pouya Ehsaei, and percussionist Mililian Galis took the stage at a tribute concert in Santiago this past Saturday night, no one was sure how the crowd would react.
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A classically trained percussionist, he had recently departed Palais Schaumburg, the Hamburg-based avant-garde band that helped start the career of, among others, FM Einheit (later the founder of seminal noise band Einstürzende Neubauten).
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Mr. Abrahamsen used his Bach arrangements as a model for two large-scale canons, written for a deliberately symmetrical instrumentation: a nonet comprising two trios of winds and strings, two pianos and a single percussionist.
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI On Monday at Roulette in Brooklyn, the trumpeter Peter Evans and the percussionist (and electronics specialist) Levy Lorenzo played a continuous hourlong duo set that was packed with technical virtuosity and textural variation.
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In Moving Pictures, an octet led by the percussionist Mr. Rudolph, the rhythms of Brazil, West Africa and the Caribbean combine in an aesthetic that recalls the various fusion sounds of the 4943s and '80s.
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Ms. Halo opened up the project to include other musicians and vocalists, like the percussionist Eli Keszler, the indie singer-composer Julia Holter, the British producer Klein, the Texas noise rocker Craig Clouse and others.
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There have been 673 homicides so far this year, including the fatal shootings of the cousin of Chicago Bulls basketball star Dwyane Wade, a Chicago police officer's son and the son of a famed percussionist.
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But climate change may turn up the volume on this liquid symphony as warmer sea temperatures boost the volume of noise produced by the small but incredibly loud percussionist in this orchestra: the snapping shrimp.
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One of the visiting Lobos was the percussionist, guitarist, and songwriter Louie Pérez, who had formed the group, in the mid-seventies, in East Los Angeles, with a few high-school classmates, including David Hidalgo.
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They were part of a sound sculpture created by Jackson Krall, who's a percussionist himself, and whose works were hung all about this one-room gallery at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center.
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The only instrumental albums I'd heard up until that point were jazz, and as a percussionist, I'd never heard a band that relied so heavily on the rhythm section to drive the narrative of a song.
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"Drumming has been a subject of taboo to women in Africa and me rising as a percussionist and going publicly with it and making a living out of it is problematic to some people," she says.
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Classically trained as a percussionist, Ms. Takada originally performed in the Berlin RIAS Symphonie-Orchester at the start of her career in the mid-1970s, but soon found herself dissatisfied with the Western classical musical tradition.
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She appears here with an eight-piece ensemble featuring Mr. Carter, Mr. Bryant and Mr. Filiu, as well as the percussionist Mauricio Herrera, the drummer Jeremy Dutton, the dancer Lucía Rodríguez and the rapper Amani Fela.
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At one point, with one percussionist bowing an autoharp and the other gently massaging a timpani, a sound projectionist was meant to refract the various spectra from one loudspeaker to the next, creating a quadraphonic effect.
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In 1949 Mr. Schaeffer hired Mr. Henry as a percussionist for the studios of French Radio and Television and invited him to join the Club d'Essai (Experimental Club), which Mr. Schaeffer had founded six years earlier.
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Instruments, or pieces of them, are then handed around: the violinist blows into part of the flute; the soprano strums the violin; the violinist bows a crotale; the percussionist thumps the violin with a soft mallet.
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The percussionist Kahil El'Zabar studied with Mr. Cohran as a teenager and eventually became a leader of the A.A.C.M. "He had learned from many examples and developed his own pedagogy," Mr. El'Zabar said in an interview.
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Only at the Redcat performance did I register the magic of the ending, in which the percussionist stands over a set of cymbals placed on the floor and pours grains of rice and millet on them.
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While the Yarn/Wire percussionist Russell Greenberg described it as a piece about loss, the question of what it means to lose something varies considerably from performer to performer, so the resulting sound is far from predictable.
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The band — with players including the trumpeter Dennis Hernandez, the pianist Osmany Paredes and the percussionist Luisito Quintero — is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Club Bonafide, a jazz room and restaurant that Mr. Bona partly owns.
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Over the last few years, the Chicago-based musician has made creeping, longform guitar drones under his own name, grayscale ambience with the percussionist Stephen Hess as Cleared, and minimal electronic compositions in another duo called Maar.
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On my final night, I attended a bracing concert in the main festival hall featuring the pianist Yuja Wang and the Percussive Planet Ensemble, a popular group directed by the virtuoso percussionist Martin Grubinger, a Salzburg native.
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In the middle of the 27th century, Manhattan's Palladium Ballroom was the cradle of Latin-music innovation in the United States, and its most esteemed statesman was Francisco Grillo, the singer, percussionist and bandleader known as Machito.
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Gregory Zuber, the Met's principal percussionist, said, "It's a tradition that's been handed down from player to player" and that can be heard in the tremendous, exposed crashes that heighten the drama of the 19813th-century operas.
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Whether traipsing over a steady, rolling rhythm or swimming through a collage of abstract sound, Nagai, a pianist, and Takeishi, a drummer and percussionist — who perform as Vortex — treat every moment as an opportunity for deep synchronicity.
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Eventually we find ourselves in a low-lit passage of collective improvising, the group's all-star musicians (the percussionist Ches Smith, the saxophonist Tony Malaby and the bassist Stomu Takeishi, among others) coalescing in a humid ecosystem.
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And it ended with "The Arch Mage," a limber piece by Mr. Eubanks that he introduced on the 1995 album "World Trio," with Mr. Holland and the percussionist Mino Cinelu — a fond throwback framed as a brisk renewal.
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Decades together have fostered musical telepathy of the highest order — guitarist and bandleader Davey Johnstone has been with John since 1972, virtuoso percussionist Ray Cooper since '72, and Nigel Olsson since the first US tour dates in 1970.
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The festival also presents the exciting young soprano Julia Bullock in a late-night concert titled "Josephine Baker: A Personal Portrait," about the legendary African-American singer, with members of ICE and the composer-pianist-percussionist Tyshawn Sorey.
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They were Chris Abrahams, pianist of the minimalist and vaguely jazz-related trio the Necks; Danny Ray Thompson, percussionist and saxophonist from the Sun Ra Arkestra; the harpist Mary Lattimore; and the guitarist Bryce Dessner from the National.
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Naná Vasconcelos, a Brazilian percussionist whose stylistic daring and freewheeling experimentalism made him a sought-after collaborator with artists as varied as the Argentine jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri and the Talking Heads, died on Wednesday in Recife, Brazil.
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He provided percussion for the track "Perfect World" on the Talking Heads album "Little Creatures" in 1985 and was a vocalist and percussionist on several tracks of the Paul Simon album "The Rhythm of the Saints" in 1990.
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Possible Musics, a collaborative project with Eno, featured a worldly cast: Welsh guitarist Percy Jones (Soft Machine), Senegalese drummer, Aïyb Dieng (Yoko Ono, Bob Marley, Mick Jagger), and the great Brazilian percussionist, Naná Vasconcelos (Brian Eno, Pat Metheny).
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A percussionist and composer whose main instruments are the vibraphone and marimba, Brennan has recently started to make her presence known on the New York avant-garde, working with such prominent bandleaders as Matt Mitchell and Michael Formanek.
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The evening ended with a dynamic performance of "Le monde des ronds et des carrés" by Yarn/Wire, an ensemble comprising Mr. Greenberg and Ms. Yu, as well as the pianist Laura Barger and the percussionist Ian Antonio.
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Russell Greenberg, a percussionist in a four-member avant-garde musical group based in Queens called Yarn/Wire, said it received a $10,000 N.E.A. grant this year to help pay for travel as it tours around the country.
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The D.J. Ayes Cold connects bhangra music with hip-hop and R&B, while the Lebanese-American percussionist Adam Maalouf performs mostly on the pantam, an instrument created from the Trinidadian steel pan and southern India's ghatam drum.
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The festivities kick off this weekend with a program featuring the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and the percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum, who will perform a contemporary lineup of works by Andy Akiho, Bryce Dessner, Paola Prestini and David T. Little.
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One well-known Prince associate who was reported to be missing Thursday's tribute was his former percussionist Sheila E., who the Minneapolis StarTribune has said was booked for a show in New York as part of her own tour.
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Jerry González, a trumpeter and percussionist who was a central figure in Latin jazz, especially through the Fort Apache Band, which he formed almost 40 years ago with his bass-playing brother, Andy González, died on Monday in Madrid.
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Movement, for children 8 and older, the teaching artist Jashua Sa-Ra and the vocalist and percussionist Okai, a member of the band Brown Rice Family, will lead an investigation of how African drumming and dance infuse contemporary expression.
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The performers communicated a clear reverence for the material, with the soprano Tony Arnold and the percussionist Al Cerulo being standouts in a small ensemble that also included Ms. Beglarian, who sang and played a bit of toy piano.
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Along with the bassist Vicente Archer, the drummer Joe Dyson and the percussionist Daniel Sadownick, it features Lady Fingaz, a hip-hop D.J. who has logged some serious time in New Orleans, though she now lives in San Francisco.
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The performers — the bassoonist Rebekah Heller, the saxophonist Ryan Muncy and the percussionists Ross Karre and Levy Lorenzo, all from the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the percussionist Dustin Donahue — occasionally placed metallic, wooden and other objects atop the subwoofers.
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Curated by Peter Evans, this year's lineup features big names from electroacoustic artist Lea Bertucci to jazz cellist Tomeka Reid; more emerging artists include multi-percussionist Diego Espinosa and pianist Ohal Grietzer, who released her debut solo album last year.
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As The Lumineers prepare to wrap up their run as the opening act for U2 on the 30th anniversary tour of their most beloved album, The Joshua Tree, percussionist and co-founder Jeremiah Fraites opens up about the life-changing experience.
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He was flanked by musical partners Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin in The Revolution, by bass player Rhonda Smith who toured with him for a decade, drummer and percussionist Sheila E, keyboard player Gayle Chapman, saxophonist Candy Dulfer, and more.
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On "Will," her third full-length solo studio album, Ms. Barwick is working with only a few others: the singer Thomas Arsenault, who performs as Mas Ysa; the cellist Maarten Vos; and the percussionist Jamie Ingalls, from Chairlift, among other bands.
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On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted the New York premiere of "The Colorado" in its Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, with live musical accompaniment by the percussionist Glenn Kotche, the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth.
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The rock band Alvvays (Canada) plays on June 23; Angélique Kidjo (Benin) pays tribute to Celia Cruz with the percussionist Pedrito Martinez (Cuba) on July 29; and Bombino (Niger) and Femi Kuti (Nigeria) perform a double bill on July 22.
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It also included the Latin Walk of Fame, which honors those who've influenced the Latin community, including the Cuban-American salsa singer Willy Chirino, the bandleader and percussionist of Puerto Rican heritage Tito Puente, and the Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán.
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Mr. Abrahamsen, his mode sometimes furious blizzards of notes and sometimes unsteady repetitions, handles his unusual complement — two pianos; a percussionist, whose sounds are largely rustles and quiet bells; a trio of strings; and a trio of winds — with skill.
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Ever in pursuit of unusual sound constellations, Mr. Salonen shapes the final movement as a riveting contest of will between the solo cello and a percussionist stationed at a set of bongos and congas at the front of the orchestra.
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She does so in part thanks to bringing the original articles and pioneers into her backing band, enlisting Steel Pulse's Ronnie McQueen, Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira, and several sidemen of acts like Ziggy Marley, Sergio Mendes, Gal Gosta, and more.
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The second of its three items, "Duende Gitana (Gypsy Soul)" — a flamenco trio for the dancer Irma Suarez Ruiz, the percussionist Javier Saume-Mazzei and the singer Paco Fonta — exemplified the merits of live music, so had a freshness lacking elsewhere.
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The two-guitar, two-drummer quartet can handle the quick changes in composer-percussionist Will Mason's writing — so there isn't any need for guest stars on a track like "ihm" (captured in a recent live performance for the website ThrdCoast).
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On one track, "The Bridge," Hassan and Oyewole, backed by reggae musicians, dub effects, a swinging horn section and a percussionist, spit thick, spiraling verses calling on us to rehabilitate ourselves and the natural world by disconnecting from controlling technologies.
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He will appear at Carnegie Hall with a global coalition of a group, featuring the Italian-Swedish bassist Massimo Biolcati and the Hungarian drummer Ferenc Nemeth, as well as the Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista, who appears as a special guest.
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" The percussionist and bandleader Bobby Sanabria said in an interview that Mr. Valentin was "a true son of the South Bronx wherever he went," and that he "represented excellence as a musician through the flute in the world of jazz.
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One of the more prominent artists to have a spotlight at the Stone, John Zorn's underground spot, in a while, this percussionist (and much more) is involved in five concerts during his residency, but these two are the most notable.
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One band member, Jakob Haas, plays the cello for the Munich Symphony Orchestra and an electronic cello for Einshoch6; percussionist and manager Carl Amadeus Hiller was named after two composers (Mozart and Karl Amadeus Hartmann) by a family that breathed chamber music.
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" J. William Hudgins, a percussionist in the orchestra who taught Mr. Salerni at the New England Conservatory and who has overseen the auditions in recent years, said, "I was happy that the first year we ever did the auditions blindly, Miles was selected.
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The analogous cohort on Saturday consisted of Los Hacheros, a Brooklyn band crisply adept with throwback salsa, charango and Cuban son; and Yosvany Terry, a Cuban saxophonist and percussionist whose ace quintet also dealt seriously with a progressive strain of hard-bop.
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Given the chance to focus, the ear quickly picks out the tiny tunes that weave together into Steve Reich's hypnotic "Music for Pieces of Wood," a seminal work from 1973, for which the So players were joined by the percussionist Yumi Tamashiro.
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As the instruments swirl in polyphonic motion, they create vivid images of frost: In what is now an Abrahamsen signature, the percussionist rubs sheets of paper on a table, and the two pianists run their fingernails across the keys in eerie glissandos.
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A 75-minute "recital for four musicians" — baritone, guitarist, flutist and percussionist (who presides over dozens of instruments) — it tells Montejo's story through music that's vivid, seductive and otherworldly, sometimes forceful, sometimes delicate, the vocal line floating between musical pitches and speech.
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His all-star trio, featuring the bassist Larry Grenadier and the drummer Kendrick Scott, is augmented here by the Venezuelan percussionist Luisito Quintero, who puts his own stamp on an Alexander original built from a mix of Southeast Asian and African rhythms.
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She will perform that material here with a familiar group of compatriots from the capital: the pianist Mark Meadows, the alto saxophonist Brent Birckhead, the guitarist Mongezi Ntaka, the bassist Kris Funn, the drummer Corey Fonville and the percussionist Agyei Osei Hargrove.
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It's a fiery introduction to a show that mixes jazz, blues and country and works best when it lives in the unpredictable spaces between genres, as in the song "Blue Was Angry," which ends with a rousing performance by the percussionist Shirazette Tinnin.
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The sessions quickly became a way station for New Orleans's modern-day all-stars: the vocalist and percussionist Cyril Neville, the trumpeter Nicholas Payton, the saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr. and the trombonist Troy Andrews, known as Trombone Shorty, all stopped by for cameos.
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At a performance of Dvorak by the Budapest Festival Orchestra at David Geffen Hall, a percussionist ambled to the front of the podium and from his tuxedo coat magically produced a tiny brass bell, which soon became the focal point of the music.
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At the half-century mark, a number of the musicians behind Little Feat's best-known songs are still with the group, including the co-founder and pianist Bill Payne, the guitarist Paul Barrere, the percussionist Sam Clayton and the bassist Kenny Gradney.
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"Good rap is both rhythm and poetry," says the son of an African and Latin percussionist who grew up in suburban Evanston just north of Chicago and was influenced by the outré hip-hop of boundary-blurring artists like Outkast and Kid Cudi.
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But the performance, which will be staged for the last time at Performa tonight, was also appropriately riotous, culminating in cacophonous song as Kentridge was joined by a soprano singer (Ariadne Greif), French horn player (Michael Atkinson), and percussionist (Shane Shanahan) on stage.
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On Friday night, at a concert featuring psychedelic cumbia and feminist reggaeton at a colonial house in Asunción, Pedro Lezcano, a percussionist, grabbed the microphone and said, "If your folks are Colorados, hide their cédulas," a reference to the national identity cards required for voting.
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The London-based trio The Comet Is Coming—made up of the saxophonist King Shabaka, the percussionist Betamax, and the keyboardist Danalogue—thrusts empyrean jazz into an apocalyptic future, where raucous psych rock and danceable electro-grooves ride lush tenor lines to outer space.
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He was a student at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in the mid-'80s when he formed the Hip with the guitarist Rob Baker, the bassist Gord Sinclair, the percussionist Johnny Fay and the saxophonist Davis Manning (who was replaced in 1986 by Paul Langlois).
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The season is rounded out by two repertory pieces: "Echoes," a 224 dance for five men set to music by the Persian percussionist and composer Shamou; and "Reflections," a 22017 piece inspired by the play of light on water, reflecting humanity's restlessness and beauty.
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Joseph Jarman, a saxophonist, flutist, woodwind player and percussionist who helped expand the parameters of performance in avant-garde jazz, especially as a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, died on Wednesday at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J. He was 21999.
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Sosa, a Cuban pianist of great percussive power and fluid grace, released a collaborative album in 2255 with Keita, a Senegalese master of the kora (a West African stringed instrument typically used to create spiraling layers of rhythm), and the Venezuelan percussionist Gustavo Ovalles.
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Los Angeles-based artist and bandleader of electronic rock veterans Mindless Self Indulgence, Jimmy Urine, has remixed Australian/Iranian duo VOWWS' single "Holy Youth" off their 2015 debut LP. The Great Sun featured appearances from synth pop pioneer Gary Numan as well as Swans' percussionist Thor Harris.
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"Our grandfather, Joe Porcaro, is a session percussionist and drummer, and he's a jazz drummer, as well," Chase says about his grandfather, who happened to reside in the home next door to where Paige and Chase were growing up and had a studio in his home.
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As a percussionist for both inveterate experimenters and more pop-minded songwriters—he's played with everyone from Weyes Blood to Lee Ranaldo, and is a longtime member of the New York polymaths Cloud Becomes Your Hand—he's tasked with controlling the momentum, with pushing forward the narrative.
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There will also be a concert by the percussionist V. Selvaganesh, and the Mark Morris Dance Group will perform two works inspired by India, "O Rangasayee" from 1984 and "Serenade" from 2003, as well as the premiere of a new work set to music by Terry Riley.
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But much of their work, at least what was presented here, was genially suave Latin pop standards — a bit lulling in this large dose, though lifted by the passionate singers and warmly subtle accompaniment from the guitarists Pancho Navarro and Brendan Cowan and the percussionist Leonardo Granados.
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He told Jamey Haddad, a percussionist, to lay off the tambourines during a noirish piano section of "One Man's Ceiling," a rarely performed song about city life that Mr. Simon's 23-year-old son, Adrian, had asked his father to have ready for the New York shows.
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For the song "Recuerdos," Mr. Martinez invited his three brothers, still in Havana, to the studio to play with his group, which includes the percussionist Jhair Sala, of Paterson, the bassist Álvaro Benavides, of Queens, and the keyboardist and arranger Edgar Pantoja-Alemán, of North Bergen.
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This stunning documentary, directed by Jake Meginsky with the assistance of Neil Young (a musician, but no relation to the rock star) does not offer anything like a conventional biography or career trajectory of the percussionist, who was and continues to be a unique force in jazz.
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He's joined by Cedric Watson, a fiddler from South Louisiana, along with the blues guitarist Corey Harris (who also recorded with the Malian patriarch Ali Farka Toure), the cellist Leyla McCalla, the Malian percussionist Alassane Samake and a frequent collaborator, the French harmonica player Vincent Bucher.
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In addition to her and his grandson Fa Mtume, Mr. Heath is survived by their daughter, Roslyn Heath-Cammorto; a son from his first marriage, James Mtume, a percussionist, vocalist and songwriter with whom he occasionally collaborated; his brother Tootie; six other grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
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At this concert, part of the continuing A World in Trance festival, the Attar brothers will perform alongside three improvising musicians based in the United States: the saxophonist and clarinetist Ned Rothenberg; the saxophonist, vocalist and visual artist Arrington de Dionyso; and the percussionist Ben Bennett.
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Last month she released "Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis," and she will draw upon that disc's material in this concert, where she'll be joined by the multi-instrumentalist Hannah Marcus, the percussionist Ryan Sawyer, the trumpeter and reeds player Matt Lavelle and the guitarist and vocalist Kyp Malone.
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What intrigued me about Mr. Simon — apart from having relished his music most of my life, and his status as a lonsman of New York — came from something I'd heard back in 753 from Jamey Haddad, a former neighbor of mine and a master percussionist in Mr. Simon's band.
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"When we hit that last note and they screamed it seriously felt like eight months of tension was doused with the emotion from all these actors," said DeVotchKa's percussionist, Shawn King, who along with bandmates Tom Hagerman and Jeanie Schroder, arranged the score and will play in the pit.
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Scouted and founded by Hundred Waters percussionist Zach Tetreault and former bandmate Paul Giese, and curated by the band, the festival has grown from 350 attendees into a 1,200-person happening in its third year, boasting a lineup that includes Skrillex, Thundercat, Four Tet, Saul Williams, and many more.
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From 2010-16, Ms. Soper wrote "Ipsa Dixit" — just released on a lucid recording from New World Records — for herself and a trio of instrumentalists (the flutist Erin Lesser, the percussionist Ian Antonio and the violinist Josh Modney) from Wet Ink Ensemble, of which she was a founder.
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Doug Perkins, a percussionist who directed the performance, decided more or less where the players would be placed: standing on patches of lawn in the sun or under trees in the shade, kneeling on mulch-filled paths in the woods or hovering over drum sets within the Sunken Garden.
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Her mother was a kindergarten and first-grade teacher for the Brentwood School District in Brentwood, N.Y. Mr. Wharton, who is 72 and is known as Akiva, is a physician assistant at a private medical practice in Smithtown, N.Y. He is also a professional percussionist, drumming teacher and composer.
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After watching the documentary "Touch the Sound" about the deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie, she decided to train as a board-certified music therapist and ended up working in one of the cancer centers at which she had received care: Indiana University's Simon Cancer Center, where I receive treatment.
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