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Adam Nussbaum was born in New York City on November 29, 1955 and grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut. He first played the drums at the age of four, however, it wasn’t until after five years of piano study that he got his first drum set when he was around twelve. He went on to study music at the City College of New York, during which time he also played in local clubs.
1978 saw Adam joining Dave Liebman’s quintet and did his first European tour with John Scofield. He played with saxophonist Stan Getz for a year in 1982. The following year he became a member of the Gil Evans Orchestra, and toured Europe and Japan two years later.
Joining the Eliane Elias/Randy Brecker Quartet, Gary Burton, and Toots Thielemans, by 1987 he began touring with Michael Brecker’s band. He was a member of Brecker’s Grammy award-winning album. Don’t Try This At Home. In 1991 John Abercrombie hired Nussbaum to complete his organ trio and during 1992 Nussbaum was part of the Carla Bley Big Band.
He has kept active in a wide variety of groups and as a freelancer. His quartet recording debut as leader in 2018 was The Lead Belly Project, released on Sunnyside Records.
Drummer Adam Nussbaum continues to perform and record.
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Rolando Matias was born on November 20, 1957 in Cupey Alto, San Juan, Puerto Rico. A self-taught musician, he applies his formal training as an architect into his musical education. He started playing percussion at a young age at the local Bembes, a neighborhood gathering where rumberos jam and improvise together.
Rolando has performed or recorded with Chuchito Valdez, Benny Maupin, Leon ..Ndugu.. Chadler, Azar Lawrence, Othello Molineaux, Mimi Fox, Bobby Matos, Bobby Sanabria, Bill Summers, Lenny Castro, Eddie “The Chief” Clearwater, Kenny Neal, Duke Robillard, Cleveland Roberto Ocasio, David Sanchez, and the list goes on and on.
His projects vary from Rolando Matias & The Afro-Rican Ensemble, Afro-Latin-BeBop, Latin-Soulsa & Jazz RM:Intrin-x-ico, Afro-Jazz Rolando Matias & Cuba-son Salsa na ma!, and Afro-Latin-Hip/Hop.
Percussionist Rolando Matias, who plays congas, bongos, cowbells, bata drums, hand percussion, claves, guiros, and maracas, etc, continues to perform and explore music from the African Diaspora.
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Chris Flory was born November 13, 1953 in New York City, New York and began playing guitar in his early teens. Around that time he heard his first jazz album, Forest Flower by Charles Lloyd. He was influenced by seeing live performances of Jimi Hendrix, B. B. King, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk during the late 1960s. Through his friend Scott Hamilton he met musicians and while babysitting the children of Gil Evans he listened to albums by Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young. His music has been inspired by Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, T-Bone Walker.
In his early teens Flory played in rock bands but three years later had a couple jazz lessons with guitarist Tiny Grimes. In the early 1970s he studied at Hobart College, and performed with Hamilton intermittently from 1975 through the early 1990s. He began to record his own albums as a leader after Hamilton’s quintet broke up.
From 1977 to 1983 Chris played in the Benny Goodman Sextet, then worked with Ruby Braff, Judy Carmichael, Roy Eldridge, Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate, Bob Wilber, Milt Hinton, Hank Jones, Duke Robillard, and Maxine Sullivan.
Guitarist Chris Flory, who has recorde six albums as a leader and as a sideman twenty-eight, continues to perform and record.
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On The Bookshelf…
The Story Of Jazz | Marshall W. Stearns
Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in America, Marshall Stearns’s history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans, Louisiana and its adoption through the Great Migration by St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York.
The effect of jazz upon American culture and the American character has been all pervasive. This superlative history is the first and the most renowned systematic outline of the evolution of this Black American musical phenomenon. The book follows its course through the era of swing and bop to the beginnings of rock in the 50s, vividly depicting the great innovators, and covering such technical elements as the music’s form and structure.
The Story Of Jazz: 1956 | Marshall W. Stearns Oxford University Press
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Lucy Galliher was born in Washington, D.C. on November 11, 1954. He graduated from Maret High School, received her BA in Music from Oberlin College and received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to study jazz piano with Joanne Brackeen. She went on to study at BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop with Manny Albam, Roger Kellaway, Jim McNeely and also studied piano with Art Lande, Mark Levine, Barry Harris, and Hansi Alt.
She is on the faculty of Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music and the Greenwich House Music School. She has held the position of East Coast Editor of Jazz Now Magazine, has performed on Broadway, cruise ships, recorded albums, and performed live in a variety of settings.
Pianist Lucy Galliher, who currently is an online Jazz Reviewer, continues to perform and record.
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