• Sign In
  • Get Inside the Matrix
    Loading ...
View All Updates Mark All Read
  • Matrix Home
  • People by Category
  • Showcase Music
  • Add Videos/SC
  • Add Photos
  • Our Logo
  • Contact Us!

Tigran Hamasyan via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...

  • Steps from Tigran Hamasyan:
    I'LL TAKE YOU THERE! ▶
Steps to Tigran Hamasyan:
  • 3 Armenia
  • 3 Armenian Folk Music
  • 3 Composer
  • 3 Jazz
  • 3 Piano
  • 3 Singer

'mātriks / "source" / from "mater", Latin for "mother". We're real mothers for ya!

I'LL TAKE YOU THERE! ▶

  • Steps forward by: The Matrix

Who I Am & Where I Live

  • Name: Tigran Hamasyan
  • City: Yerevan
  • Country: Armenia
  • Hometown: Gyumri, Armenia

My Life & Work

  • Bio: In its ever-evolving state, jazz invites into its fold imaginative artists who freely and courageously pursue their own vision, not only built on tradition but also infused with their own personality and passion. In the case of pianist/keyboardist Tigran Hamasyan, potent jazz improvisation fuses with the rich folkloric music of his native Armenia. Turning 30 in 2017, he’s one of the most remarkable and distinctive jazz-meets-rock pianists of his generation. Tigran’s fresh sound is marked by an exploration of time signatures beyond 4/4 into 5/4 and 9/8, charged dynamics, the shifting between acoustic and electric modes of expression, all undergirded by an affinity to the grind of heavy metal.

    A piano virtuoso with groove power, Tigran’s latest adventurous project is The Ancient Observer, his second solo album and his sophomore recording for Nonesuch. It’s a collection of new original compositions written over the course of the last three to four years—two of which are based on Armenian melodies. Some of the pieces are through composed and completely written out while others are through composed but with ample space for Tigran to improvise. Many include vocals layered into the mix. Like most of his recordings, the influences of the music are manifold, ranging from classical Baroque dance to J-Dilla-esque hip-hop grooves adapted to piano to a few tracks with pedals connected to a synthesizer—though the Armenian influence, which makes his music so uniquely outstanding, is prominent.

    Conceptually, The Ancient Observer is a poignant album focusing on the art of observing. “It’s something that humans have been practicing for ages, sometimes even subliminally,” Tigran says. “It is especially interesting now in 2016. It’s the feeling of the ancient eternal and impermanent versus the present day eternal and the impermanent. The intertwining of this ancient with the modern world creates an existential feeling. This album is presenting the observation of the world we live in now and the weight of our history we carry on our shoulders, which is influencing us even if we don’t realize it. This album is the observation of influences and experiences I had.”

    Born in Gyumri, Armenia, in 1987, Tigran grew up in a household that was full of music—his father more of a rock fan while his uncle was a huge jazz buff. When he was just a toddler, Tigran gravitated to tape players and the piano instead of regular childhood toys, and by the time he was 3, he was working his way through figuring out songs on piano by the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Queen. His jazz tastes early on were informed by Miles Davis’s fusion period, and then around the age of 10 when his family moved to Yerevan, he came to discover the classic jazz songbook under the aegis of his teacher Vahag Hayrapetyan, who had studied with Barry Harris. “That’s when I understood what jazz is,” Tigran says. “He taught me about bebop. He was a great teacher.”

    Even so, he also began to dive into the deep music well of his country. “When I was 13, I began to understand the rich culture of Armenia,” says Tigran. “I thought, it’s in my blood. I grew up with this incredible music without realizing it. Slowly I began to listen more to the folk music, and it shocked me how much it had been completely ignored. The more tunes I learned—listening to recordings from the Armenian Folk Radio channel—the more I saw the rich potential for merging those with improvised music. That started me on a lifetime journey.”

    Along the way, Tigran discovered the variety of Armenian music, including work songs, epic folk songs and war dances that were very different from region to region. “They were different genres of music,” he says. “But they all had a modal basis with two specific constructions: a melodic line and a rhythmic line treated to a very specific ornamentation which adds the spice. And the construct of the melody may have interval jumps and be played high up in the register then dropping down. It’s very specific even though it may be confused for Balkan or Iranian music styles.”

    While he studied classical music at an Armenian high school geared toward music studies, Tigran continued to grow on his own as a jazz pianist. He performed at the First International Jazz Festival in Yerevan in 1998, which opened up other performance opportunities, and returned to the festival for its second edition in 2000, where he met Chick Corea, Avishai Cohen, Jeff Ballard and others. He also met promoter Stephane Kochoyan, who booked him to play several European festivals where he met such top-notch jazz stars as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Joe Zawinul, Danilo Pérez and John Patitucci, among others. Soon after, Tigran began to win a series of piano competitions, including Montreux Jazz Festival’s in 2003 and later in 2006 both the top prize at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Piano Competition and second place in the Martial Solal International Jazz Competition in Paris.

    When he was 16, his parents moved to Los Angeles to give their two children (Tigran’s sister is a painter and sculptor) better artistic opportunities. Tigran stayed in high school for two months before gaining entrance to the University of Southern California, which he attended for two years. At the same time, he began to make contact with such jazz musicians as Alphonso Johnson and Alan Pasqua, and started gigging with saxophonist Ben Wendel and drummer Nate Wood. At the time Tigran also played in the funk band Pinot.

    Tigran began his recording career with three albums on the French Plus Loin label as a leader: World Passion (2006), New Era (2008) and Red Hail (2009) and was heralded as a jazz revelation by critics who had been impressed by his artistry, with one scribe writing about New Era that “with more seasoning and a calming maturity not driven by merely showing off, Hamasyan is certain to elevate his art to a top tier of jazz and world music expressionism.” Tigran incorporated Armenian folk instruments into the mix on the first two albums while expanding to a quintet format to include a vocalist for the third. Red Hail opens with the tune “Shoger Jan (Dear Shogher),” which is based on a famous Armenian folk song that was treated to a fired-up romp. It’s also where Areni Agbabian introduced her singing abilities into the mix of Tigran’s fusion vision. “When I wrote all the material for Red Hail, I was hearing a female vocalist,” he said. “I knew an instrument couldn’t execute the depth and color of the melody. I met Areni, who is an Armenian born in L.A., at a show there where she sat in with me on a folk song. It was incredible. I knew I had to get her for the album. She’s not from a jazz background and would never sing a scat. But she knew the Armenian folk repertoire, which is exactly what I needed. She can sing complicated rhythms almost like an instrument versus being a lead vocalist.”

    What’s also noteworthy about Red Hail is how much heavy metal influenced some of the tracks. Tigran noted, “Songs like ‘Sybilla’ and ‘Corrupt’ are connected with the same melody, but ‘Corrupt’ goes into the full metal mode while ‘Sybilla’ is really acoustic. ”

    After moving to New York for a spell (before returning to Armenia where he still lives full time), Tigran went on a creative roll, getting signed by Universal Jazz in France in 2010, which released A Fable, his first solo album in 2011.

    “The title of the album came to me because all of the compositions are telling a story,” said Tigran. “I think people relate to fables because they are simple, yet deep.” As for recording a solo album after three recordings that featured a full band, he said, “A lot of people heard me perform solo concerts and wanted to hear me in this setting.”

    Recorded in Paris, A Fable contains compositions that Tigran wrote and inventively arranged over the previous six years. The repertoire consists of mostly personal compositions as well as pieces by other composers that he had arranged. The title track, a Tigran original, was written in Armenia six years ago. “Since then I have been meaning to have it recorded,” he said. “This song was inspired by Armenian folk tales as well as fables written by medieval Armenian fabulists such as Vardan Aygektsi and Mkhitar Gosh.” There’s also music inspired by the poetry of Hovhannes Tumanyan and Gegham Sayyan as well as a mystical rendition of the jazz standard, “Someday My Prince Will Come.” The recording won the Victoires du Jazz (the French equivalent to the Grammy) award for best international production.

    Two years later, Tigran returned with Shadow Theater featuring an extended loops-oriented band including a choral section, strings and saxes. With its indie rock energy and electro-acoustic jazz improvisations steeped in Armenian music influences, the recording garnered the 2013 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Contemporary Music. Joining the band on a couple tracks was Jan Bang on live sampling (which set the groundwork for the 2016 ECM Atmosphères project with Norwegian musicians Arve Henriksen on trumpet and Eivind Aarset on guitar).

    All About Jazz raved about Shadow Theater, saying, “Hamasyan’s distinctive musicality blends jazz, European classical music and an array of influences like progressive-rock and DJ mixing. Yet the common thread is the inventive way the music balances ethnicity with a modernist verve.”

    The year 2015 marked Tigran’s signing with Nonesuch for the critics’ breakthrough album Mockroot, which he describes as: “It’s more like an electro-acoustic Armenian rock trio than a regular jazz trio. Sometimes we sound like a heavy metal band or a dubstep DJ, or like some late 19th century Armenian composers such as Nikoghayos Tigranyan and Komitas, with newer harmonic and rhythmic approaches. It’s all underlined by something that’s very simple, melodic and romantic.”

    The recording garnered the 2016 Echo Award (the German Grammy) for best international piano album if the year. Tigran comments, “Mockroot is a sort of longing and nostalgia for a human nature that’s more spiritual, more loving, more together with its roots. There is a sacrifice in it—sacrifice to try to elevate spiritually.”

    In that vein, also in 2015, Tigran took on his most ambitious project focused on Armenian Apostolic Church sacred music, stretching stylistically from the 5th century (sharakans by Mesrop Mashtots) to the 20th century (melodies composed by Komitas). On Luys i Luso (translated as “Light From Light”), released on ECM Records, there are the pianist’s arrangements of music from the Armenian Orthodox holy mass, liturgies, hymns, cantos, chants and vespers written for trio and the Yerevan State Chamber Choir conducted by Harutyun Topikyan. “For me it has been a challenge to explore the history of Armenian sacred music and to create polyphonic arrangements for melodies by the modal tradition,” Tigran says. “In these arrangements the piano parts are never written out. There are ideas for the structure of the piano parts, but these are subject to change, bringing freedom and improvisation to notated classical composition and the sacred music tradition. But I understood that with this sacred music that you can’t touch the surface. You have to go deep into it. You have to be careful and have responsibility to the beauty.”

    Tigran took the Luys i Luso project on the road for 50 concerts across Europe and the U.S. and videos of some songs also showed up on YouTube. “It was interesting to see people’s reactions to the music,” Tigran says. “Some people may not have understood what was going on or were maybe turned off by religion. But I did gain a classical audience that is used to hearing church music. Sometimes I even had heavy metal fans come to the choir concerts and loved it.” He adds: “Throughout my career, my music has been progressive which has made for interest in hardcore metal bands that recognize I was influenced by heavy rock and metal music. They’ve even asked me to open shows for them. But when I compose I don’t think of metal or classical. I just write music for my longtime trio of Sam Minaie and Arthur Hnatek who play a huge part on how much the sound and the energy of the trio develops.”

    Both 2015 recordings garnered Tigran the prestigious 2015 Paul Acket Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival where he accepted the honor and then played a standing-room only trio show that earned the group a standing ovation and rightfully a call for an encore.

    While Tegran is a jazz genius on the piano, he’s also become increasingly well regarded as a composer in his eight albums recorded as the sole leader. “I have been composing since I was 9 and composing is a huge part of my daily life and all the records I did from World Passion to An Ancient Observer,” he says. Some of his songs like “Samsara, “The Court Jester,” “Vardavar,” “The Poet,” “Road Song” and “Nairian Odyssey” (the latter from the upcoming album) are prime examples of his compositional prowess. “I think the composing aspect is the reason why people are also covering a lot of my songs on YouTube,” Tigran says. “For me creating a beautiful melody is very important and is the basis, but what you will do with that melody, considering the age of folk music creation is over, is the most important task.”

    For his scintillating improvisation, Tigran uses the melodic content based on the Armenian music and creates the harmonic content that instead of being the minor/major classical harmonies is based on Armenian modes applied to the piano. “When I improvise I use the musical vocabulary that comes from Armenia,” he says, “but I learned the art of improvisation through bebop. I think the ability to improvise comes from whether the part of your brain has been activated to this state where you require a huge amount of knowledge and can carry this information in your brain to be executed when needed. It is the balance among knowledge, control and the unexpected new creation.”

    In regards to his latest endeavor, 2017’s An Ancient Observer, Tigran took advantage of living in Armenia to compose a beauty—looking at his surroundings and reflecting on the bigger picture. “When I gaze out of my window and see the biblical mountain Ararat with the perpetual snow on its peak with foregrounds of electrical towers with wires cutting the picture, and the satellite dishes melted onto old and modern houses, ancestral smoke coming out of the chimneys and the birds hovering above the trees with occasional airplane trails in the vastness of the sky is the dialogue, the interaction of the God-given ancient nature and our modern human achievements,” he says. “For me it is an awakening and a beautiful feeling to be able to observe the magnificence of this sleeping volcanic giant which has existed for millions of years and was observed by from the Ararat Valley Koura-Arax culture to the present day citizens of the Armenian republic.”

    He adds: “I can see and observe the same birds, animals, rivers and mountains that the 4,000-year-old craftsman painted on a clay vessel. The craftsman was observing the same thing I can observe now, and what remains is his or her beautiful work of art.”

Contact Information

  • Management/Booking: Management:
    Pascal Pilorget, GiantSteps
    +33 (0) 180 488 320
    +33 (0) 618 424 476
    pascal@g-steps.com
    contact@g-steps.com
    www.g-steps.com

    Booking U.S.:
    Chadwick Mitchell
    Footprints Music
    713-548-6778
    chadwick@musicfootprints.com

    Booking Russia:
    ESSE jazz agency
    +7 495 150 28 48
    music@jazzesse.ru
    http://www.essemusic.ru/tigranhamasyan

My Media & Markets

  • ▶ Twitter: tigranmusic
  • ▶ Instagram: tigranhamasyanmusic
  • ▶ Website: http://www.tigranhamasyan.com
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TigranHamasyan
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCLtymjek_M-si5zDxK77Veg
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/59AeaIeAx6S2igYJFjltRE
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/4BEcvKnTOi20mm1foxleMQ
  • ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/3cH2LQH41G3PO5XxmLVxJo
  • ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/21tuABlTWrvuM4qLc6ntIm
  • ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/6bWRFvvfLzVFw7vZZHMHaK
  • ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/57AzZ8kM0jFnvMNmeYeW7x

Clips (more may be added)

  • Tigran Hamasyan - Love Song (Berklee Middle Eastern Fusion Ensemble)
    By Tigran Hamasyan
    156 views
  • Tigran Hamasyan - An Ancient Observer: In the Studio
    By Tigran Hamasyan
    111 views
Previous
Next

 

The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...

 

... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.

 

All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also  may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!

 

IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT

 

Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.

 

But!

 

Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.

 

For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...

 

Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.

 

Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"

 

A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.

 

  • John Harle Film Scores
  • Lolis Eric Elie New Orleans
  • Rogério Caetano Rio de Janeiro
  • Duane Benjamin Arranger
  • Rolando Herts Singer
  • Jupiter Bokondji Singer-Songwriter
  • Nels Cline Guitar
  • Capitão Corisco Bahia
  • Joe Lovano Clarinet
  • Keola Beamer Hawaiian Music
  • Luciana Souza Singer
  • Derek Sivers Entrepreneur
  • Steve Earle Singer-Songwriter
  • Béco Dranoff DJ
  • Lizz Wright Singer
  • Brentano String Quartet Yale School of Music
  • Orlando Costa Rio de Janeiro
  • Joan Chamorro Barcelona
  • Hopkinson Smith Basel
  • Leon Bridges Singer-Songwriter
  • Gabriel Policarpo Repique Instruction
  • Ben Allison Television Scores
  • Nicholas Payton Record Label Owner
  • Darol Anger Bluegrass
  • Miles Mosley Singer
  • Afrocidade Hip Hop
  • Armandinho Macedo Bandolim
  • Nicolas Krassik Rio de Janeiro
  • Cássio Nobre Guitar
  • Bob Lanzetti Record Producer
  • Nelson Sargento Singer-Songwriter
  • Pedro Martins Jazz
  • Daniel Owoseni Ajala Ballet School Owner
  • Melissa Aldana New York City
  • Cássio Nobre Samba de Roda
  • Marcus Teixeira Brazilian Jazz
  • Bernardo Aguiar Rio de Janeiro
  • Oswaldinho do Acordeon São Paulo
  • Sarah Jarosz New York City
  • Hélio Delmiro Samba
  • Arturo Sandoval Trumpet
  • Derek Sivers Guitar
  • Gabi Guedes Bahia
  • Sahba Aminikia Iran
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Jazz
  • Mandla Buthelezi Johannesburg
  • David Bragger Banjo Instruction
  • Noam Pikelny Banjo
  • Barney McAll Bulbul Tarang
  • Cut Worms Brooklyn, NY
  • Liron Meyuhas Israel
  • Alex Clark Digital Media Producer
  • Hank Roberts Cello
  • Oswaldo Amorim Bass
  • Vijay Gupta Social Justice Advocate
  • John Edward Hasse Curator
  • A-KILL India
  • Gregory Tardy Clarinet
  • Terell Stafford Temple University Boyer College of Music & Dance Faculty
  • Sam Reider Singer-Songwriter
  • Barlavento Bahia
  • Taylor Ashton Banjo
  • Luiz Brasil Bahia
  • George Garzone Saxophone
  • Milton Primo Samba
  • Roy Ayers Composer
  • Magary Lord Percussion
  • Caroline Keane County Kerry
  • Jack Talty Record Producer
  • Barlavento Samba de Roda
  • Oteil Burbridge Southern Rock
  • G. Thomas Allen Gospel
  • Samba de Lata Bahia
  • Michael Janisch Bass
  • Congahead Jazz
  • Daniel Jobim MPB
  • Amit Chatterjee Vocalist
  • Ben Cox Director of Photography
  • Bonerama Brass Band
  • Di Freitas Brazil
  • Tom Schnabel Author
  • Terri Lyne Carrington Composer
  • Liberty Ellman Record Producer
  • Danilo Pérez Jazz
  • Elisa Goritzki Salvador
  • J. Velloso Singer
  • Felipe Guedes Brazil
  • Nicolas Krassik Composer
  • Ambrose Akinmusire Composer
  • Eli Teplin Guitar
  • Alexia Arthurs Short Stories
  • James Elkington Chicago, Illinois
  • Alex Clark Cinematographer
  • Matt Parker YouTuber
  • André Mehmari MPB
  • Rez Abbasi Composer
  • Donnchadh Gough Irish Traditional Music
  • Joatan Nascimento Salvador
  • Sierra Hull Singer-Songwriter
  • Stanton Moore Second Line
  • Perumal Murugan Novelist
  • David Virelles New York City
  • Antônio Queiroz Brazil
  • James Andrews Songwriter
  • Chucho Valdés Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Giovanni Russonello Journalist
  • Burhan Öçal Tanbur
  • Capitão Corisco Pife
  • Dumpstaphunk Funk
  • Tank and the Bangers R&B
  • Nelson Sargento Rio de Janeiro
  • Chris Thile Composer
  • Bobby Fouther Multidisciplinary Artist
  • Colm Tóibín Ireland
  • Eivør Pálsdóttir Faroe Islands
  • Dhafer Youssef ظافر يوسف Singer
  • Fred Dantas Samba
  • Morten Lauridsen Contemporary Classical Music
  • Charles Munka Painter
  • Manassés de Souza Ceará
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • David Castillo Voiceovers
  • Peter Evans Experimental Music
  • Ilê Aiyê Salvador
  • Pharoah Sanders Jazz
  • Trombone Shorty Trombone
  • Rachael Price Brooklyn, NY
  • Sharita Towne Pacific Northwest College of Art Faculty
  • Chris Thile Folk & Traditional
  • Marco Pereira Brazil
  • Alex Rawls Music/Culture Website Owner/Editor
  • Cassie Kinoshi Jazz
  • Joel Guzmán Austin, Texas
  • Mart'nália Singer-Songwriter
  • Darol Anger Folk & Traditional
  • Román Díaz Percussion
  • Alita Moses Singer-Songwriter
  • Bruce Molsky Appalachian Music
  • Ron Blake Juilliard School Faculty
  • Steve Cropper Songwriter
  • J. Velloso Bahia
  • Hanif Abdurraqib Poet
  • Trilok Gurtu Indian Classical Music
  • Africania Samba de Roda
  • Kermit Ruffins Jazz
  • Patrice Quinn Singer
  • Jon Batiste Bandleader
  • Little Dragon Electronic Music
  • João Rabello Choro
  • Rachel Aroesti England
  • Luciano Calazans Brazil
  • Jonathan Griffin Radio Presenter
  • Dan Nimmer Composer
  • Super Chikan Mississippi
  • Jahi Sundance Hip Hop
  • Ivan Sacerdote Salvador
  • Yunior Terry Violin
  • Jeff Ballard Drums
  • Richie Stearns Old-Time Music
  • Gary Lutz Poet
  • J. Period Hip Hop
  • Welson Tremura Composer
  • Dan Tyminski Guitar
  • Questlove Rapper
  • Mick Goodrick Guitar
  • Christopher Wilkinson Movie Director
  • Tab Benoit Guitar
  • Gilsons Salvador
  • Derrick Adams Installation Artist
  • Imanuel Marcus War Correspondent
  • Neo Muyanga South Africa
  • Taj Mahal Singer-Songwriter
  • Lavinia Meijer Harp
  • Felipe Guedes Guitar
  • Michael Doucet Accordion
  • Mandla Buthelezi Trumpet
  • Hua Hsu Writer
  • Congahead World Music
  • Darrell Green New York City
  • Quincy Jones Composer
  • Joan Chamorro Saxophone
  • Elza Soares Singer
  • Hermeto Pascoal Alagoas
  • Roberto Fonseca Cuba
  • Ivan Neville Funk
  • Joe Lovano Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Gian Correa Choro
  • Ron Blake Jazz
  • Mark Turner New York City
  • Carla Visi Salvador
  • Tal Wilkenfeld Bass
  • Gilberto Gil Brazil
  • Tony Trischka Banjo Instruction
  • Avishai Cohen New York City
  • Alexandre Gismonti Brazil
  • Wayne Shorter Saxophone
  • André Mehmari Contemporary Classical Music
  • Guinga Rio de Janeiro
  • Awadagin Pratt Piano
  • Kotringo Singer-Songwriter
  • Orlando Costa Brazil
  • Sergio Krakowski MPB
  • Joshue Ashby Violin Instruction
  • Lucía Fumero Spain
  • Ben Wendel New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Faculty
  • Brian Stoltz Singer
  • Saul Williams Filmmaker
  • Paulo Aragão MPB
  • Melissa Aldana Composer
  • Jason Moran Theater Composer
  • Jorge Glem Composer
  • Samba de Nicinha Santo Amaro
  • Alfredo Del-Penho Rio de Janeiro
  • Questlove Record Producer
  • Esperanza Spalding Composer
  • Neo Muyanga Contemporary Classical Music
  • Jahi Sundance Record Producer
  • Ronald Bruner Jr. Los Angeles
  • Perumal Murugan Short Stories
  • Bill Callahan Singer-Songwriter
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel Record Label Owner
  • Aperio Texas
  • Béco Dranoff Brazilian Music
  • Giba Conceição Percussion
  • RAM Haiti
  • Bobby Sanabria Percussion
  • Walmir Lima Samba
  • Celso Fonseca MPB
  • Richie Barshay Afro-Latin Percussion
  • Tutwiler Quilters Mississippi
  • James Andrews Funk
  • Kathy Chiavola Singer
  • Hopkinson Smith Lute
  • Tommy Orange Native American Literature
  • Felipe Guedes Bahia
  • James Strauss Classical Music
  • David Fiuczynski Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Matt Dievendorf Jazz
  • Aderbal Duarte Guitar
  • Nei Lopes Samba
  • Tomo Fujita Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Craig Ross Songwriter
  • Shabaka Hutchings London
  • Steve Cropper R&B
  • Derrick Hodge Composer
  • Adonis Rose Drums
  • Jamel Brinkley Iowa Writers' Workshop Faculty
  • Andrew Finn Magill Forró
  • Simon Singh Author
  • Brett Orrison Record Producer
  • Dorian Concept Composer
  • Michael Janisch Experimental Music
  • Guinha Ramires Florianópolis
  • Yola Americana
  • Burkard Polster Mathematics
  • Aaron Parks Piano
  • Ivan Huol Songwriter
  • Bule Bule Chula
  • Olivia Trummer Berlin
  • Darren Barrett Flugelhorn
  • Philip Ó Ceallaigh Ireland
  • Corey Harris Guitar
  • Frank Olinsky Artist
  • Amit Chatterjee Indian Classical Music
  • China Moses Voiceovers
  • Booker T. Jones Songwriter
  • David Binney Los Angeles
  • André Mehmari Composer
  • Pedro Abib Samba
  • Irma Thomas Blues
  • Steve Earle Poet
  • Renato Braz São Paulo
  • Africania Chula
  • Keyon Harrold New York City
  • Colson Whitehead New York City
  • Eric R. Danton Music Critic
  • Ron Miles Trumpet
  • Walter Blanding New York City
  • Miles Mosley Film Scores
  • David Bennett Piano
  • Tray Chaney Record Producer
  • Leon Bridges Record Producer
  • Nicholas Payton Writer
  • Eric Harland Drums
  • Otmaro Ruiz Piano Instruction
  • Teddy Swims Georgia
  • Casey Driessen Bluegrass
  • Keyon Harrold R&B
  • Anna Mieke Wicklow
  • Mulatu Astatke Keyboards
  • John Edward Hasse Jazz
  • Trilok Gurtu Tabla
  • Sameer Gupta Composer
  • Chano Domínguez Jazz
  • Afel Bocoum Singer-Songwriter
  • Walter Smith III Composer
  • Dónal Lunny Multi-Instrumentalist
  • John Edward Hasse Piano
  • Jorge Pita Brazil
  • Alan Bishop Singer-Songwriter
  • Celino dos Santos Brazil
  • Horacio Hernández Cuba
  • Tedy Santana Bahia
  • Celino dos Santos Viola Machete
  • Lina Lapelytė Installation Artist
  • Cory Henry Singer-Songwriter
  • Adonis Rose Jazz
  • Brenda Navarrete Singer
  • Mônica Salmaso MPB
  • Jeff Tweedy Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Caetano Veloso Singer-Songwriter
  • Mulatu Astatke Percussion
  • Brady Haran Podcaster
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Boston, Massachusetts
  • Fred Dantas Trombone
  • Dan Tepfer Composer
  • Wayne Krantz Guitar Instruction
  • Cassie Kinoshi Composer
  • Gal Costa Bahia
  • Robertinho Silva MPB
  • Jean Rondeau Composer
  • Caroline Shaw Singer
  • Joe Lovano Composer
  • Jussara Silveira Brazil
  • Biréli Lagrène Manouche
  • Eliane Elias Singer-Songwriter
  • Horacio Hernández Havana
  • Alexa Tarantino New York City
  • Teodor Currentzis Russia
  • Paulinho da Viola Brazil
  • Terrace Martin Rapper
  • Grant Rindner Journalist
  • Alê Siqueira Bahia
  • Linda May Han Oh Composer
  • Neymar Dias São Paulo
  • Dee Spencer Sound Designer
  • Jeremy Pelt New York City
  • Gerônimo Santana Brazil
  • Camille Thurman Bass Clarinet
  • Beth Bahia Cohen Rababa
  • Caridad De La Luz Playwright
  • Pedrito Martinez Singer
  • Cláudio Jorge Rio de Janeiro
  • Joatan Nascimento Bahia
  • Luedji Luna Singer-Songwriter
  • Danilo Pérez Multi-Cultural
  • D.D. Jackson Piano
  • Kalani Pe'a Singer-Songwriter
  • Vijay Gupta Violin
  • Georgia Anne Muldrow Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Corey Ledet Creole Music
  • George Porter Jr. R&B
  • James Brandon Lewis New York City
  • Liz Pelly Writer
  • Gevorg Dabaghyan Yerevan
  • Zachary Richard Poet
  • Questlove Songwriter
  • Amitava Kumar Vassar College Faculty
  • Marcos Suzano Brazil
  • Andrew Finn Magill Violin
  • Darren Barrett R&B
  • Gord Sheard Toronto
  • Tero Saarinen Finland
  • Marisa Monte MPB
  • Tigran Hamasyan Piano
  • Jane Ira Bloom Jazz
  • Caterina Lichtenberg Soprano Lute
  • Banning Eyre Guitar
  • Toninho Ferragutti Brazil
  • Michael Pipoquinha MPB
  • Cut Worms Singer-Songwriter
  • Felipe Guedes Salvador
  • Leon Parker Jazz
  • Oscar Peñas Composer
  • Martin Hayes County Clare
  • Mark Bingham New Orleans
  • Darrell Green Jazz
  • Nguyên Lê Film Scores
  • Swami Jr. Brazilian Jazz
  • Teresa Cristina Singer
  • D.D. Jackson Opera
  • Jim Farber Music Critic
  • Joachim Cooder Singer-Songwriter
  • Steve Cropper Nashville, Tennessee
  • Tommaso Zillio Prog Rock
  • Peter Slevin Journalist
  • Ruven Afanador New York City
  • Nikki Yeoh Jazz
  • David Fiuczynski Composer
  • Eamonn Flynn R&B
  • Biréli Lagrène France
  • Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro Pandeiro
  • Alex Mesquita Salvador
  • Tia Surica Samba
  • Rosângela Silvestre Choreographer
  • The Weeknd Toronto
  • Gilson Peranzzetta Accordion
  • Edward P. Jones Novelist
  • Angelique Kidjo Africa
  • Marko Djordjevic Drums
  • Ivan Neville New Orleans
  • Ron Blake Saxophone
  • Cedric Watson Louisiana Creole Music
  • Armandinho Macedo Frevo
  • Kamasi Washington Multi-Cultural
  • Betsayda Machado Tambor
  • Rolando Herts Delta State University Faculty
  • Etienne Charles Steel Drums
  • Vincent Valdez Mexican-American Art
  • Henrique Cazes Viola Caipira
  • Carlos Lyra Guitar
  • Chris Potter Saxophone
  • Igor Levit Classical Music
  • Morgan Page EDM
  • Shabaka Hutchings Saxophone
  • Riley Baugus Old-Time Music
  • Meddy Gerville Réunion
  • Meklit Hadero San Francisco
  • Owen Williams Software Engineer
  • Danilo Caymmi Record Producer
  • Arthur Jafa Cinematographer
  • Sunna Gunnlaugs Piano
  • Sérgio Mendes Singer-Songwriter
  • Michael Peha Guitar
  • Luke Daniels Singer-Songwriter
  • Peter Evans Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Biréli Lagrène Jazz
  • Brian Lynch Record Label Owner
  • Stephanie Soileau Writer
  • Damon Albarn Singer-Songwriter
  • Rogê Samba
  • Virgínia Rodrigues Brazil
  • Dave Holland Jazz
  • Horacio Hernández Drums
  • Antônio Queiroz Forró
  • Michael League Bass
  • Amaro Freitas Jazz
  • Gerônimo Santana Singer-Songwriter
  • Hamilton de Holanda Brazil
  • Michael Garnice Writer
  • João Bosco Singer-Songwriter
  • Colm Tóibín Poet
  • Larry Achiampong Ghana
  • Ivan Lins Singer-Songwriter
  • Papa Grows Funk New Orleans
  • Ballaké Sissoko Bamako
  • Camille Thurman Piccolo
  • Alexandre Gismonti Belo Horizonte
  • Sergio Krakowski Experimental Music
  • Jocelyn Ramirez Plant-Based Mexican Cooking
  • Lydia R. Diamond Playwright
  • Monk Boudreaux Mardi Gras Indian
  • Kimmo Pohjonen Composer
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Suona
  • Gino Banks Drums
  • Tom Schnabel World Music
  • Art Rosenbaum Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Anouar Brahem Tunis
  • Django Bates Bern University of the Arts Faculty
  • Alain Mabanckou Novelist
  • Luciano Salvador Bahia Salvador
  • Iuri Passos Brazil
  • Elisa Goritzki Choro
  • Alicia Keys Actress
  • Rudresh Mahanthappa Composer
  • Nilze Carvalho Choro
  • Ivan Huol Salvador
  • Larnell Lewis Jazz/Funk/R&B/Soul
  • Astrig Akseralian Cambridge, England
  • Nicholas Payton Composer
  • Swizz Beatz Songwriter
  • Eliane Elias Brazilian Jazz
  • Ivan Lins Piano
  • Darren Barrett Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Etienne Charles Trumpet
  • Shankar Mahadevan Mumbai
  • Don Byron Dance Performance Scores
  • Ben Azar Israel
  • Dan Tepfer Classical Music
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Saxophone
  • Jake Oleson Filmmaker
  • Laura Cole Canada
  • Cory Henry Jazz
  • David Simon Television Writer
  • Norah Jones Jazz
  • Pedrito Martinez Percussion
  • Chico Buarque Author
  • Joshua Redman Composer
  • Jurandir Santana Brazilian Jazz
  • Banning Eyre Writer
  • Danilo Brito Mandolin
  • Alex Rawls Arts Journalist
  • Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Ethnomusicologist
  • Derron Ellies Singer
  • Olivia Trummer Classical Guitar
  • James Martin Jazz
  • Lazzo Matumbi Salvador
  • Cássio Nobre Bahia
  • Alicia Hall Moran New York City
  • Christopher Wilkinson Screenwriter
  • Terence Blanchard Film Scores
  • Seth Swingle Kora
  • Los Muñequitos de Matanzas Santeria
  • José Antonio Escobar Spain
  • Questlove Drums
  • Andrés Prado Jazz
  • Tero Saarinen Dancer
  • Jeremy Pelt Trumpet Instruction
  • Steve Cropper Record Producer
  • Fred P Electronic Music
  • Arto Tunçboyacıyan Jazz
  • Keola Beamer Hawaii
  • Asa Branca Chula
  • Omer Avital Bass
  • Jason Parham Writer
  • Molly Tuttle Guitar
  • Jon Batiste New York City
  • David Castillo Pierce College Faculty
  • Mestre Nenel Brazil
  • Lionel Loueke Composer
  • Kim Hill Songwriter
  • Jovino Santos Neto Seattle
  • Hanif Abdurraqib Writer
  • Victor Wooten Composer
  • Aloísio Menezes Salvador
  • Regina Carter Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Sam Reider Brooklyn, NY
  • Lenine Pernambuco
  • Nei Lopes Brazil
  • Richard Bona Singer
  • Albin Zak Author
  • Daymé Arocena Cuba
  • Lokua Kanza African Music
  • Mono/Poly Electronic Music
  • Mahsa Vahdat Tehran
  • Flying Lotus Record Label Owner
  • Reena Esmail Contemporary Classical Music
  • J. Velloso MPB
  • Tia Fuller Saxophone
  • Mauro Senise Choro
  • Celso de Almeida Drums
  • Colson Whitehead Essayist
  • Raynald Colom Barcelona
  • Anna Webber Contemporary Classical Music
  • Luke Daniels Scotland
  • Amitava Kumar Writer
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Horacio Hernández Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Tia Fuller Composer
  • Stephan Crump Bass
  • Luke Daniels Scottish Traditional Music
  • Ron Miles Composer
  • Anna Mieke Ireland
  • Edward P. Jones Short Stories
  • Eliane Elias Bossa Nova
  • Biréli Lagrène Gypsy Jazz
  • Justin Kauflin Composer
  • Clarice Assad Composer
  • Kurt Andersen Playwright
  • Nabih Bulos Beirut, Lebanon
  • Henry Cole Drumming Instruction
  • Frank London Multi-Cultural
  • Doug Wamble Composer
  • Bob Reynolds Jazz
  • Sophia Deboick Historian
  • Rumaan Alam Literary Critic
  • Matt Glaser Jazz
  • Andrés Prado Universidad Católica del Perú Faculty
  • Esperanza Spalding Bass
  • David Braid Classical Music
  • Renell Medrano New York City
  • Vinson Cunningham New York City
  • Etienne Charles Michigan State University Faculty
  • Samba de Nicinha Maculelê
  • John Edward Hasse Ragtime
  • Guinga Composer
  • Omer Avital North African Music
  • Scotty Barnhart Big Band Leader
  • Larnell Lewis Drums
  • Shannon Alvis Choreographer
  • Renata Flores Quechua
  • David Greely Songwriter
  • Liron Meyuhas Tel Aviv
  • David Byrne Singer-Songwriter
  • Casey Driessen Fiddle
  • David Bruce YouTuber
  • Omer Avital Composer
  • Jupiter Bokondji Congo
  • Marta Sánchez New York City
  • Samuel Organ Keyboards
  • Anthony Coleman New York City
  • Michael Janisch Avant-Garde Jazz
  • Renell Medrano Dominican Republic
  • Renato Braz Brazil
  • Alexa Tarantino Saxophone
  • Gerald Cleaver Drums
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Jewish Music
  • Daniel Jobim Bossa Nova
  • Carlos Malta Composer
  • James Shapiro Columbia University Faculty
Copyright ©2021  -  Privacy  -  Terms of Service  -  Contact  - 

sparrowroberts@gmail.com for questions

You will use your email address to login.

Passwords must be at least 6 characters in length.

Enter your password again for confirmation.

This will be the end of your profile link, for example:
http://www.matrixonline.net/profile/yourname

Please type the characters you see in the image. May take several tries. Sorry!!!

 

Member Sign In

If you already have an account, please enter your details below. If you don't have one yet, please sign up first.

 
 
 
Forgot Password?
Share