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"That's the melting pot of what New York is, " says percussionist Mauro Refosco.
Percussionist Davi Viera is the only member who actually grew up around Forro.
For a while during college he thought he would make a career as a saxophonist and percussionist.
Through their postcompetition work, some former Monk winners trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and percussionist Pedrito Martinez, for instance make a case in the affirmative.
The trio gets additional support from percussionist Nathan Geer, Laraine Kaizer on violin, Will Hendricks on guitars, and Gerald Dowd on drums.
Haile is a percussionist that can listen to live players, analyze their music in real-time and improvise with music of its own.
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The John Jorgenson Quintet features Stephan Dudash on five-string viola, Gonzalo Bergara on rhythm guitar, Charlie Chadwick on bass and percussionist Rick Reed.
Boyar calls it a groundbreaking new work, "Double Concerto for Violin and Percussion" by Harold Farberman, a former percussionist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Growing up, McBride remembers his mother showing him dance steps by the Temptations and seeing his father, bassist Lee Smith, performing with Cuban-born percussionist Mongo Santamaria.
Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie last week also backed the bid.
Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and percussionist Bill Summers did.
Mostly, however, these are new compositions played by a group of innovative musicians who are decades Mr. DeJohnette's junior bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, saxophonist Tim Ries, guitarist Lionel Loueke and percussionist Luisito Quintero.
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Mr. Jain says he was moved by both the music of Indian-born percussionist Trilok Gurtu and the Indian fusion projects of British guitarist John McLaughlin, but the London-based electronic dance music of artists like Talvin Singh and the Asian Dub Foundation exerted the greatest influence on him.
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Bizarrely, it featured two titles from a Horace Silver session, 'Message From Kenya' and 'Nothing But The Soul', which were features for Art Blakey's drumming: on the first title he duetted with percussionist Sabu Martinez, but the other was all Blakey (a nice tribute, though, to the drummer's importance in the Blue Note hierarchy).
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