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Unlimited Myles is celebrating its 20th year as one of the leading jazz booking agencies today. Our boutique-style approach has allowed us to maintain a small but highly superior roster of artists. Our goal has always been to serve both our artists and the concert presenter with the utmost integrity. We are very proud of our roster's diversity. Each artist is uniquely different from the next and each is considered by critics and fans alike to be the absolute best in their field.
Between them all, our artists boast an incredible list of awards, including multiple Grammy-winners and multiple nominees; a MacArthur "Genius" Award winner, Guggenheim Fellows and countless "Best" awards in their instrument or vocal categories from the Jazz Journalist Association, JazzTimes Readers and Critics' Polls and Downbeat Critic Readers and Critics' Polls...
Life & Work
Bio:
Like many musicians, drummer and percussionist Myles Weinstein has led two different professional lives. One as a performing artist and the other as an agent to many of the finest jazz artists today.
In 2001, Myles founded his own booking agency, Unlimited Myles, Inc., exclusively representing multi-award-winning artists, such as Regina Carter, Kenny Barron, Stefon Harris, Luciana Souza, Vijay Iyer and Russell Malone. Before that, Myles served as the director of the jazz division at Herbert Barrett Management, where he established a jazz division within this primarily classical agency. He worked there from 1993-2001.
As a performing artist, Myles has played percussion, timpani and drums with a diverse list of artists and orchestras, including Stefon Harris, Steve Turre, the Long Island Philharmonic and the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra. It was with Stefon Harris that he toured and recorded the Grammy-nominated work "The Grand Unification Theory." In the 90's, he co-led a group with Chris Potter called "The Jazz Mentality", which toured throughout the northeast and Midwest regions and recorded two CDs: "Maxwell's Torment" and "Show Business Is My Life." Both of these recordings reached the top of the jazz radio charts.
Since 2004 Myles has served on the board of directors for the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents (NAPAMA.) He received his Bachelor of Music degree at Rutgers University (1985) and his Master of Music at Manhattan School of Music (1987.) He also attended the New England Conservatory in Boston (1985).
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).