Daily Dose Of Jazz…
David Silliman was born on July 28, 1960 and raised in the San Francisco, California bay area where he was exposed to a wide variety of music. His first studies were in the classical field, studying snare drum, xylophone and timpani. He was later exposed to Jazz, Latin Jazz, Brazilian and Funk music. His current setup varies from the standard American drum set augmented with a South American cajon, drums from the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean along with various other percussion instruments.
He hass performed on the stages of European and American jazz festivals, and spent years playing with Blossom Dearie as a member of her trio. He has toured with Al DiMeola, Cassandra Wilson, Leslie Uggams, Mariah Carey, Edmar Castaneda, and performed with Aretha Franklin. He is no stranger to the Broadway pit or the New Jersey Symphony, having sat in the chairs of both.
Drummer and percussionist David Silliman, who has yet to record as a leader, continues to perform.
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Omar Ruben Rada Silva was born July 16, 1943 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Little is known about his early life but his sound comes from his exposure to the music of his country, a chorus of tamboriles and Uruguayan barrel drums.
In 1965, he and Eduardo Mateo formed the band El Kinto Conjunto. This was the first group in Uruguay to create the beat genre in Spanish and to fuse rock with Latin American musical styles. In 1969 the success of his Candombe song Las Manzanas (The Apples) led to his first solo album and participation in the Festival of Popular Music in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A year later he formed the band Tótem.
In 1977, he traveled to the United States after an invitation by the Fattoruso Brothers to play with the group OPA. Over the next year, he performed with Tom Scott, Ray Barretto, Hermeto Pascoal, and Flora Purim.
Settling in Mexico for three years beginning in 1991, Rubén worked as a composer and arranger for local musicians such as Mijares, Eugenia León, Stephanie Salas, and Tania Libertad. In 1994 he shared the spotlight with Sting and UB40 at the Palacio de Deportes in Mexico City.
Rada’s renown led him to record on international labels and his songs have been played worldwide and have been recorded by Milton Nascimento, Herb Alpert, and Lani Hall. He was invited by Jon Anderson and Joan Manuel Serrat to appear on their albums Deseo and Utopía, respectively.
He has voiced the part of Lucius Best/Frozone in the 2004 Argentinian dubbing of The Incredibles. Ruben has directed radio and TV shows, and has starred in the television sitcom La Oveja Negra (The Black Sheep).In 2010, the third round of the series LifeLines in Berlin paid tribute to Rubén Rada. That same year he recorded a show in the Argentine program Encuentro en El Estudio, which is run by that country’s Ministry of Education.
Percussionist, composer, singer and television personality Ruben Rada, who has recorded more than thirty albums, continues to perform, compose and record.
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Alain Samba was born on July 10th in Pointe Noire, Congo Brazzaville. His early music experiences began with him playing different kinds of percussion native to the region such as sanza (kalimba), kikongui, marimba and drums. He was influenced by listening to both African and European music. At the age of 8 he moved to France where he studied saxophone and harmony at the American School of Modern Music in Paris.
His music is inspired mostly by the jazz of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Charles Parker, Wes Montgomery, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Wayne Shorter, and the music of his native region of Congo such as bantous’ music, lari , téké , mbochi and of course the pygmies polyrhythms and polyphonies.
Since the 90’s he has performed in Paris, France clubs, and all around Europe. He created the Art Ensemble of Africa to illuminate the struggle of world citizenship with the same love of music and sharing. In Stockholm, Sweden he teaches saxophone, harmony and polyrhythms and has played with musicians from around the world based in Sweden. such as Rene Martinez, Celso Paco, Pepe Espinosa, Tropicana se, Marianne Fuglevaag, Derrick Walker, Emilio Estrada, and Jorge Arruda to name a few.
Saxophonist, composer, pianist and percussionist Alain Samba, whose main instruments are tenor and soprano saxophones, continues to mix modern jazz with traditional African music.
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Paul Lovens was born on June 6, 1949 in Aachen, Germany. In the early 1970s, he was part of a trio with pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach. He went on to work with Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström, Günther Christmann, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Brötzmann, Teppo Hauta-Aho, Mats Gustafsson, Thomas Lehn, Phil Wachsmann, Rajesh Mehta and Joëlle Léandre.
He also played with Florian Schneider and Ebehard Kranemann in an early incarnation of Kraftwerk. Since 1967, Lovens has run the record label Po Torch with Paul Lytton
Drummer Paul Lovens, who also plays percussion, singing saw, and cymbals, has performed with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra and Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, and continues his musical endeavors.
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Michael DiPasqua was born May 4, 1953 born in Orlando, Florida into a highly musical family. He began his professional career very early, gigging as a drummer with a band co-led by Zoot Sims and Al Cohn while still in his mid-teens.
During the next few years DiPasqua played with Don Elliott and Gerry Mulligan, and also accompanied singers Jackie Cain and Roy Kral. Towards the end of the 70s, the drummer was for a number of years co-leader of Double Image, a vibraharp, marimba and bass quartet that toured internationally.
Michael then co-led Gallery and followed that with a spell in Later That Evening, a band led by Eberhard Weber, before joining Jan Garbarek. He was a consistently inventive percussionist with the ability to comfortably co-exist in a range of musical styles, from the modern end of the mainstream through jazz rock to the cutting edge of improvisational music.
He recorded three albums as a leader with his debut on the Inner City label in 1977. He went on to record as a sideman with Jan Garbarek for two albums, three with Eberhard Weber, and one each with Adelhard Roidinger and Robert Towner all for ECM. On a variety of other labels he recorded with Siegfried Fietz, Volker Kriegel, Marian McPartland, and Gerry Mulligan.
Beyond jazz, Michael was locally known for his role in helping to develop over 300 Subway Sandwich Shops in Central Florida, as well as co-founding PCMD Management Company, which owns and operates over 40 Subway franchises.
Cool jazz drummer and percussionist Michael DiPasqua lost his battle with cancer on August 29, 2016. He was 63.
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