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Michael Cain
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Name:
Michael Cain
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City/Place:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Country:
United States
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Hometown:
Los Angeles, California
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“Michael Cain is an almost maniacally versatile pianist (and bassist and programmer) whose music often conveys a questing sensibility.”
—New York Times
Life & Work
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Bio:
Pianist and composer Michael Cain began gaining international recognition in the mid 1980’s while still a student at the California Insitute of the Arts, performing, touring, and recording with jazz greats James Newton, jazz vocalist Marlena Shaw, the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, and drummer Billy Higgins among others. After moving to New York in 1990, Cain became a first call pianist, working with drum legend Jack DeJohnette for nine years, as well as Dave Holland, Steps Ahead, Ravi Coltrane, Bobby McFerrin, Terence Blanchard, Stanley Turrentine, Lauren Hill, Pat Metheny, Charles Neville, Christian McBride, Vernon Reid, Robin Eubanks, and Meshell N'degeocello among others. He has received numerous awards, including a 2006 Grammy nomination for Dance of the Infidel, Meshell N'degeocello's release on which Michael is pianist and co-arranger. He has recorded several records as a leader including Circa, a 1996 ECM release which featured Ralph Alessi and Peter Epstein, and served as producer for several recordings including Ron Blake’s Shariya, and Brian Landrus’ Traverse and Capsule.
Other Notable projects have included serving as musical director for the Jose Limon Dance Company, scoring the films Maybe and Real With Me, by director Carl Ford for Black Nexxus Films, and composing the music for the Broadway play View from 151st Street, which ran at the George Papp Public Theater in New York in the fall of 2007. More recently, Michael was producer for the Western Canadian recording “Rebirth of the Cool” for Cellar Live Records, and the summer of 2018 Michael toured with legendary trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard.
As an educator Michael has been an Assistant Professor at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and a Full Professor at Brandon University in Brandon, MB, Canada.
Michael currently is the Director of the Electronic Music & Recording Arts program (EMRA) at the MacPhail Center for Music, in Minneapolis MN, and is Cofounder and CEO of Ekwe™, a unique, app-based, digital tool for music making which brings a new level of ease and access to digital music creation.
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O pianista e compositor Michael Cain começou a ganhar reconhecimento internacional em meados da década de 1980, ainda como estudante no Instituto de Artes da Califórnia, apresentando-se, excursionando e gravando com grandes nomes do jazz como James Newton, a vocalista de jazz Marlena Shaw, a Orquestra Gerald Wilson e o baterista Billy Higgins, entre outros. Após se mudar para Nova York em 1990, Cain se tornou um pianista requisitado, trabalhando por nove anos com a lenda da bateria Jack DeJohnette, além de colaborar com Dave Holland, Steps Ahead, Ravi Coltrane, Bobby McFerrin, Terence Blanchard, Stanley Turrentine, Lauren Hill, Pat Metheny, Charles Neville, Christian McBride, Vernon Reid, Robin Eubanks e Meshell N'degeocello, entre outros. Ele recebeu diversos prêmios, incluindo uma indicação ao Grammy em 2006 pelo álbum *Dance of the Infidel*, lançamento de Meshell N'degeocello no qual Michael atuou como pianista e co-arranjador. Ele gravou vários álbuns como líder, incluindo *Circa*, um lançamento da ECM em 1996 que contou com Ralph Alessi e Peter Epstein, e atuou como produtor de várias gravações, como *Shariya*, de Ron Blake, e *Traverse* e *Capsule*, de Brian Landrus.
Outros projetos notáveis incluem seu trabalho como diretor musical da José Limón Dance Company, a trilha sonora dos filmes *Maybe* e *Real With Me*, do diretor Carl Ford para a Black Nexxus Films, e a composição da música para a peça da Broadway *View from 151st Street*, que foi apresentada no George Papp Public Theater em Nova York no outono de 2007. Mais recentemente, Michael foi produtor da gravação canadense ocidental *Rebirth of the Cool* para a Cellar Live Records e, no verão de 2018, Michael excursionou com o lendário trompetista e compositor Terence Blanchard.
Como educador, Michael foi Professor Assistente na Eastman School of Music em Rochester, NY, fez parte do corpo docente do New England Conservatory of Music em Boston e foi Professor Titular na Brandon University em Brandon, MB, Canadá.
Atualmente, Michael é o Diretor do programa de Música Eletrônica e Artes de Gravação (EMRA) no MacPhail Center for Music, em Minneapolis, MN, e é Cofundador e CEO da Ekwe™, uma ferramenta digital baseada em aplicativo para criação musical que traz um novo nível de facilidade e acesso à criação de música digital.
My Recordings
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Discography:
AS A LEADER
Hoo Doo (Native Drum Music)
Sola (Native Drum Music)
Solo (Native Drum Music)
The Green Eyed Keeper (Native Drum Music)
Indira(Muzak/ENJA)
Circa (ECM)
The Evidence of Things Unseen (MA)
Brooklyn Waters (Telepathy Records)
Pfhew (MA)
Strange Omen (Candid)
What Means This? (Candid)
Selected Signs 1, an anthology (ECM)
AS A SIDEMAN
Jack DeJohnette
Oneness (ECM)
Dancing With Nature Spirits (ECM)
Music for the Fifth World (Blue Note)
Extra Special Edition (Blue Note)
Earthwalk (Blue Note)
Rarum Xiv(ECM)
Me'Shell N'DegeOcello
Spirit Music Sextet Jamia/Dance of the Infidels (Universal France)
Cookie: the Anthropological Mixtape (Maverick)
Ravi Coltrane
Moving Pictures (BMG France)
Steps Ahead
Vibe (NYC Records)
Robin Eubanks
Get 2 it (RE)
Mental Images (JMT Records)
JJ/Slide/Curtis and Al (TCB)
Greg Osby
Mantalk for Moderns Vol. 10 (Blue Note)
Ron Blake
Shayari
Sonic Tonic
Malika Zarra
Berber Taxi
Lettuce
Live in Tokyo
Brian Landrus
Traverse
Forward
Stevvi Alexander
The East Side Psalmbook
Pheeroan akLaff
Global Mantras (Modern masters)
Hang Pinochet (Modern masters)
Marty Ehrlich
New York Child (Enja)
Anthony Cox
Dark Metals (Minor Music)
Factor of Faces (Minor Music)
Bruce Saunders
Forget Everything (Moo Records)
James Newton
If Love (Delta Records)
Gerald Wilson
Jenna (Discovery)
Hollins Steele
Songs from Vanderbilt Avenue (The Steele factory)
Kip Hanrahan
A Thousand Nights and a Night, Red Night (American Clave)
A Thousand Nights and a Night, Blue Night (American Clave)
Shadow Nights 1&2 (American Clave)
Gary Thomas
Kold Kage (JMT)
Bob Beldon
When Doves Cry (Blue Note)
Gunter Wehinger
Cry Flute (Pao/Verve)
Eric Persons
Arrival (Black Saint)
Lonnie Plaxico
Iridescence (Muse)
Short Takes (Muse)
Noreaga
Melvin Flynt Da Hustler (Tommy Boy)
Mya
Fear of Flying (Warner Brothers)
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Few people know that the Bay of All Saints was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. And few people know the transcendence these people, and their descendents, wrought. That's where this Matrix begins...
Wolfram MathWorld
The idea is simple, powerful, and egalitarian: To propagate for them, the Matrix must propagate for all. Most in the world are within six degrees of us. The concept of a "small world" network (see Wolfram above) applies here, placing artists from the Recôncavo and the sertão, from Salvador... from Brooklyn, Berlin and Mombassa... musicians, writers, filmmakers... clicks (recommendations) away from their peers all over the planet.
This Integrated Global Creative Economy (we invented the concept) uncoils from Brazil's sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix... expanding like the canopy of a rainforest tree rooted in Bahia, branches spreading to embrace the entire world...
Recent Visitors Map
Great culture is great power.
And in a small world great things are possible.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
I opened the shop in Salvador, Bahia in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for magnificent Brazilian musicians.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix, then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC (I've lived here in Brazil for 32 years now) I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
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 founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
www.salvadorbahiabrazil.com
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