Joe Gallant Discography of CDs

Joe Gallant CD discography Michael Markus graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Music degree in Percussion Performance. After graduation, he taught Afro-Cuban drumming while continuing his studies in Kung Fu, African dance, and African drumming at the Agape Institute for Movement Studies in Ithaca, New York with Maurice Haltom. He then moved to New ...

Joe Gallant albums THE BLUES FOR ALLAH PROJECT features jazz arrangements of the Grateful Dead's entire BLUES FOR ALLAH album. Recorded live at Knitting Factory Studios, New York, New York. Joe Gallant is a New York-based bassist and composer, known to free jazz fans as a member of drummer Rashied Ali's Prima Materia group; however, Gallant's principal ...

Joe Gallant music CDs Joe Gallant's dense compositions pick up where his freakishly stylized arrangements of the Grateful Dead's Blues for Allah and Terrapin Station albums left off: a vivid cross-section of New York's downtown musical life, cross-cutting with abandon among moods and feels like a hungry listener hopping from club to club. He uses his ...

Joe Gallant discography Arranger: Joe Gallant. Personnel: Rob Wolfson (vocals, guitar); Rolf Sturm (guitar); Rob Thomas , Erika Atchley, Todd Reynolds , Hiroko Taguchi (violin); Catherine Bent, Julia Kent, Rufus Cappadocia, Robin Bonnell, Martha Colby (cello); Barbara Cifelli (soprano saxophone); Jody Espina (alto saxophone); John Isley (tenor saxophone); Rob Henke (trumpet); Bob Hovey (trombone); Evan Gallagher ...

Joe Gallant CD discography Experimentally inclined vocalists like Judith Ren-Lay don't come along that often, and when they do it takes an equally adventurous label like (in this case) Knitting Factory Records to present them to the public at large. OUT OF NOWHERE offers an artist poised somewhere between the free-form avant-gardisms of Patty Waters and ...

Joe Gallant albums On May 1, 1965, at Town Hall, the innovative tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler performed his 21-minute original "Bells" with his quintet (trumpeter Donald Ayler, altoist Charles Tyler, bassist Lewis Worrell, and drummer Sonny Murray); the results were released at the time as a one-sided LP by ESP. Prima Materia played a stretched-out ...

Joe Gallant music CDs John Zorn's COBRA is a monthly event staged at the Knitting Factory. Each time a different musician brings in twelve of his or her peers to play what amounts to a musical game. The game requires a prompter and agile musicians who improvise using cards, hand signals, and headbands ...