Bio:
Jorge Glem is a cuatro player from Venezuela, now living in the United States:
Cuatrista, mandolinista, arreglista, compositor y productor musical, nacido en Cumaná, estado Sucre, Venezuela. Comienza su formación musical a la edad de 6 años; estudia cuatro con los profesores Eberto Zapata y Alexander Mariña y mandolina bajo la guía del profesor Ángel Luis Piñero. En año 2004 logra el primer lugar, “Mejor Cuatrista -Mejor Agrupación Musical”, en el Festival de Música Llanera El Silbón de Oro” y el segundo lugar en el I Concurso Internacional La Siembra del Cuatro; en la edición del año siguiente gana el primer lugar de afinación tradicional.
En 2008, participó en el 2do Cuatro Encuentro en el Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, en San Juan, junto a Edwin Colón Zayas e hizo un concierto de cuatro puertorriqueño y cuatro venezolano con Christian Nieves. Es integrante de C4 Trío; Saúl Vera y su Ensamble; Ensamble de la Radio Nacional de Venezuela; César Orozco y su Kamarata Jazz; Marco Granados; enCayapa; Alexis Cárdenas y Trío Fusiones.
Ha participado como acompañante de varias agrupaciones del país, entre las que destacan: la Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Ensamble Gurrufío, Serenata Guayanesa y El Cuarteto. También ha acompañado a prestigiosos músicos y cantantes, tales como Cheo Hurtado, Aldemaro Romero, Leo Blanco, Huáscar Barradas, Alirio Díaz, Saúl Vera, Ruperto Tico Páez, Toñito Naranjo, Alberto Cheché Requena, Jaime Martínez, María Rodríguez, Hernán Marín, Rafael el Pollo Brito y Lilia Vera, entre muchos más.
En 2005, bajo el título Jorge Glem. Cuatro sentido, ofrece su primera producción musical como cuatrista solista y en 2009 lanza su segundo disco como solista auspiciado por el Concurso Internacional La Siembra del Cuatro. Como invitado, ha participado en más de 40 producciones con agrupaciones y músicos como Guaco, Ensamble Gurrufío, Cuarteto de Clarinetes de Caracas, Ofelia del Rosal, Ed Simon, Gerardo Rosales, Christian Nieves, Alberto Cheché Requena, Alexis Cárdenas y Aquiles Báez.
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).