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- What is your profession?
- Musician, producer, promoter, other
- What Instrument Do you Play?
- drums.bass.
- Where Are you located?
- philadelphia.pa.19121
- How did you find out about TGJN?
- word of poogie bell..one of the true musician in in the earth and real to the music,,,,kool...
- About Me:
- G.CALVIN WESTON WAS BORN JUNE 6 1959 IN PHILADELPHIA,HE BECAME INTERSTED IN MUSIC AT THE AGE OF 6 WHEN HE (AND HE'S NEIGHBOR'S)DISCOVERED HIS TALENT FOR RHYTHM AS HE BEAT ON EVERY CAR ON THE BLOCK.HE LIVED IN NORTH PHILLY WHERE HE SAW MUSICIANS LIKE,STEVIE WONDER,THE JACKSON FIVE AND JAMES BROWN AT THE UPTOWN THEATRE. SEEING HIS ATTENTION FOCUSED ON THE DRUMMERS,HIS FRTHER BOUGHT HIM A SMALL DRUM SET.IN HIGH SHCOOL CALVIN LEARNED TO PLAY AND READ MUSIC AND PLAY SECOND SNARE IN THE DRUM ENSEMBLE.HE CO-FOUNDED THE GROUP CALLED (BAD INFLUENCE)WHICH PLAYED IN CABARETS AND CLUB AROUND PHILADELPHIA.AT THE AGE OF 17 HE JOINED ORNETTE COLEMAN'S PRIME TIME BAND,WHICH TOURED EXTENSIVELY IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE.AFTER RECORDING FOUR ALBUMS WITH PRIME TIME HE WENT ON TO PLAY AND RECORD WITH GUITARIST(JAMES BLOOD ULMER,UNTIL HE JOINED JOHN LURIE'S LOUNGE LIZARDS IN THE 90'S. DURING THE 90'S CALVIN RECORDED AND TOURED WITH BILLY MARTIN OF MEDESKI&WOOD,,TRICKY,EYVIND KANG,DEREK BAILY,MARC RIBOT AND JAMES CARTER ,DOUG WIMBISH.,JEAN PAUL BOURELLY,JONAS HELLBORG,AYDIN ESENMELVIN GIBBS,HE ALSO PLAYED ON SEVEREL MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS,INCLUDING"GET SHORTY"FOR HIS LATEST PROJECT G.CALVIN WESTON ASSEMBLED A POWER TRIO WITH GUITARIST VERNON REID OF THE GROUP LIVING COLOR AND HIS LONG TIME FRIEND JAMAALADEAN TACUMA ON BASS,FREE,FORM,FUNKY,FREQS , NEW CD IS OUT CALLED(URBAN MYTHOLOGY:VOLUME 1)THIRSTY EAR RECORDS 2008 .CALVIN EXPLORES THE MANY MUSICAL INFLUENCES OF HIS CAREER AS A BAND LEADER AND COMPOSER AND THE ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT INFLUENCE THE MOST IS(BILLY COBHAM AND THE MAHAVISHUN ORCHESTRA.)MUSIC IS HIS SOUL AND HEART.HAS PLAYED WITH MANY MUSICIANS,LIKE ORNETTE COLEMAN,JAMES(BLOOD)ULMER,JOHN LURIE,JOHN ZORN,MARC RIBOT,JAMES CARTER,AND MANY,MANY,OTHERS.G.CALVIN WESTON PLAYS PEARL MASTER STUDIO DRUMS&ZK'S CYMBAL'S.
CHECK OUT MYSPACE.COM/CALVINWESTON.Calvin Weston Discography
Ornette Coleman - "Of Human Feelings" - Columbia Records 1979
James Blood Ulmer - "Are You Glad To Be In America?" -
Artist House 1980
James Blood Ulmer - "Black Rock" - CBS 1982
James Blood Ulmer - "Free Lancing" - CBS 1981
George Adams / James Blood Ulmer Quarter -
"Jazzbuhne Berlin '85" - Repertoire 1990
James Blook Ulmer / George Adams / Phalanx -
"Got Something Good For You" - Moers Music 1986
Grant Calvin Weston - "Dance Romance" - In+Out 1995
Ornette Coleman - "In All Languages" - Acoustilog Studios 1987
Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - "Virgin Beauty" - 1988
James Blood Ulmer - "Black & Blues" - 1990
The James Blood Ulmer Blues Experience - "Blues Allnight" - In+Out 1990
John Lurie National Orchestra - "Men With Sticks" - 1993
Tricky - "Angels With Dirty Faces" - Island 1998
The Lounge Lizards - "Queen of All Ears"
Eyvind Kang on Dying Ground Live at the Knitting Factory - 1997
Derek Baily / Jamaaladeen Tacuma / Calvin Weston -
"Mirakle" - Orange Music 1999
John Lurie - "African Swim and Manny Lo" - 1999
James Carter - "Layin' In The Cut" - Atlantic 2000
Marc Ribot,Trevor dunn,G.Calvin Weston,Asmodeus Book of ANGELS VOLUME 7,Music of JOHN ZORN-2006-TZADIK MUSIC, Vernon Reid,JamalaadeanTacuma-G .CALVIN WESTON.FREEFORMFUNKYFREQS-URBAN-MYTHOLOGY VOLUME 1-THIRSTY EAR RECORDS-2007
JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY-=MELVIN GIBBS-G .CALVIN WESTON-GYPSYS RELOADED-LIVE AT THE BIMHUIS-AMSTERDAM-2008.
Soundtracks
Get Shorty - 1995
Excess Baggage - 1997
Blue In The Face - 1995
Clay Pigeons - 1998
Box of Moonlight - 1997
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Dear Tamm E:
Just a note to tell you that it is nice to read about you!!!
You share so much great info about others and about the music, but nice to know that you are WAILIN' yourself and getting appreciation!!
Global Jazz Network is a really important way for all of us to keep hooked up and informed and to SLOWLY BUT SURELY SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND THE PHILOSOPHY of what Jazz is in its many different forms and what the styles are/is all about.
Just played for Paquito's honoring and received gold medal
John Faddis, save Brubeck, James moody and a bunch of KILLER YOUNG players and we all played and spoke about Paquito and jazz and all fine music
and Roberta Gamborini, who was excellent.
wish you had been there!
Through you, Donald Harrison hooked me up with Pittsburgh Jazz info and I feel like i am living there just reading about all the great happenings.
As Fall is here, I am back to my normal insane schedule, but wanted to write you back BEFORE The STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS goes into effect. I am my own secretary, so I am dedicated but SLOW!
And I can't fire myself as my own secretary or I might get hit with an Age Discrimination Lawsuit (in case I decided to sue myself for clerical incompetence).
As of this moment, a new documentary film is being made about me, to be released a few months after my 80th birthday, which is coming up next year Nov. 17, 2010. (12 months from now).
The film will end with the videoing of the big 80th birthday bash at Symphony Space in NYC and then have snippets of films from the past, with all kinds of fun stuff from the 50's thru today.
It will be called "David Amram: The First 80 Years"
Fortunately, I don't have to edit the hundreds of hours of footage or do new music the score, since the film maker, Larry Kraman is also the founder of Newport Classics recordings and knows all my symphonic as well as operatic, theater, film and jazz and world music work, so I am in good hands!!
The same people at Newport Classics Recordings are also making a Spoken Word series for I-Tunes, with me reading from my three books Vibrations, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat.
And they are also recording some of my chamber music compositions and a new jazz record,
Next Spring my opera "12th Night", with libretto by Joe Papp (all words of Shakespeare), is having its eighth production and being FILMED!! Even most dead composers aren't that lucky!!!
This last five weeks I have appeared all over the country at concerts of my music, conducting and playing, doing spoken word with music, jazz, folk and world music festivals, film festivals and readings from my books.
Just the first week of October, I played Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival in Lowell Mass, then the at midnight , following my last concert there , drove all night to Lagaurda Airport to catch the early Sunday mornng flight for the annual Farm Aid Concert in St Louis, where i played with Willie Nelson's band. The next morning (Monday the 5th , I flew bck to NYC in tme for my monthly concert at Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
The next night (Tuesday the 6th) the memorial at Symphony Space for Frank Mccourt, and the next day Wednesday the 7th) the celebration of the new authorized biography of Thelonious Monk with members of his family and musicians I have known since I first arrived in NYC in 1955!!
The 11th i flew off to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates,( i got at least get a few hours sleep) and tried to catch up on over 200 e-mails during the 13 hour flight, before arriving there and performing a concert of global music in conjunction with the score I composed for Teri McLuhan's new documentary feature film The Frontier Ghandi.
Then back in the USA in time to do programs centered around a performance of my Saxophone concerto Ode to Lord Buckley, in Loudoun Virginia ..
Then I went off to Toronto Nov 1st for a concert and appearance at the Diaspora Film Festival .
Now i am back at home hiding out composing and writing!
I am starting my fourth book "David Amram: The First 80 Years", (the same name as the new doc film being made about me), which will be finished at the end of next year and will end, like the film, with the monstro birthday bash concert for my Big 80... 12 months from now....(Nov 17 2010) in New York.
And every day, still finding time to continue composing a new orchestral work, having been doing it while on the run, and now every minute when I can hide out at the Farm in between travels.
And performing whenever possible with my three kids, each of whom have their own bands.
So as the BIG 80 approaches twelve months from now, (2010) while I may be still shy, I am not yet the retiring type.
Most of my ever-changing my schedule info. when i can get my elderly secretary (unfortunately myself) to type it up, is posted on my web page www.davidamram.com under Upcoming Events.
And my e-mail amramdavid@aol.com is always the best way to reach me as I carry my laptop with me everywhere, and Facebook, MySpace, etc., is hard to deal with and not always reliable!
You might find it fun to access an old performance of my 1971 Rondo a la Turca on the Internet for FREE!!!
The person who is conducting the Chicago Symphony and playing the middle eastern flute (who looks like my grandson) is actually a much younger looking me in 1977, recording for a PBS network TV show about my music. Pepper Adams and Jerry Dodgion are also playing.
In 1977, most of members of the Chicago Symphony who appear on the recording of this performance had never heard, much less ever played, very much music from the Middle East, and since I write everything out on paper accurately to indicate the way it should be played, that's what they were playing, and they actually began to sound like the Radio Beirut Orchestra, and suddenly as the piece went on, they started feeling something different than they had ever felt before, as they played.
It is really fun to watch their faces as they started getting ingo the old time magical groove that Middle eastern music creates and takes you into.
During the first few minutes of the piece, you can see the musicians all playing up a storm but looking as if they were thinking that I was an alien from another planet in outer space, and had brought some extra terrestrial music with me for them to play.
And then as the piece progresses, you can see, as well as hear, that by the end of the piece, the idiom of this music got them excited enough to be actually enjoying playing it!!
And playing it really well!
That's what music, like film, novels, poetry, painting, dance, language and good HOME COOKING does for all of us.
It takes you to that place from where it comes, and makes you feel that you now have a new home in a new part of the world.
I send cheers from that endless road and wish you joy and energy for all you do
David
I was just saying that you knocked this out of the park with TGJN. We have needed something like this for so long and I am telling my friends about this. I said that it is sort of like a myspace for jazz but it is actually so much more. This is real. The people here truly love jazz and we know people like that are not your average people.
I have felt for a long time that straight-ahead jazz has been slipping away from us. I have hope now that there will be a resurgence (or shall I say an insurgency:-) to bring this baby back full force!
You just knocked it out of the park. Thanks again.
xoxo,
Janie
Events
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Mel Brown Quartet
March 25, 2009 at 8pm to March 27, 2013 at 11pm – Jimmy Mak's
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Steve Cromity
November 27, 2009 from 8pm to 11:30pm – 966 Fulton St. Brooklyn, NY @ Grand Ave., 10 min. from Bklyn Br.
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Workout
December 3, 2009 from 9pm to 11pm – Casale Monferrato
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Luigi Ruberti Quintet
December 4, 2009 at 9pm to December 6, 2009 at 12pm – Naples
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“Grazie”
December 17, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – Ivrea
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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 10, 2010 from 7pm to 8:15pm – The Triad
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Jazz On Edge Volume 2
February 6, 2010 from 6pm to 10pm – Garden Theatre
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Thank you for sharing your greetings and music that is nothing less than masterful. I just returned from Dubai and did not have an opportunity to respond to your message before now. When are scheduled to perform in the DC/MD/VA area? I would love to be present. Continue to be and live and your great adventures!
Keeping Jazz Live!
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