CD Release Concert: 'Sangria' By Mariah Parker (Indo Latin Jazz)
Christopher
Tuesday, August 25, 8 pm
Yoshi's
510 Embarcadero West
Oakland, CA 94607
Tix: $15
For more info, call 510-238-9200 or visit
http://www.yoshis.com
Ancient-Future.Com Records Presents CD Release Concert: 'SANGRIA' with
Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble
Featuring Mariah Parker (piano, santur), Paul McCandless (woodwinds,
horns), Matthew Montfort (guitars), Kash Killion (bass, cello), Mindia
Devi Klein (flutes), Duru Demetrius (Latin percussion), Debopriyo
Sarkar (tabla), Brian Rice (percussion)
Mariah Parker's debut recording features her original compositions
that draw musical inspiration from Brazil, Cuba, Spain, and India. Her
Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble accompanies her and includes musicians from
the bands Ancient Future, Oregon, Sun Ra, and Herbie Hancock's
Headhunters.
"Parker and friends blend the rhythmic syncopations of Latin jazz
music with the entrancing, asymmetrical meters of East Indian rhythms
resulting in first-class world music. Intriguing melodies that draw
musical inspirations from the tempos of Brazil, Cuba, India, and Spain
make for an uplifting serene yet passionate musical journey into an
ideal world." - LATIN BEAT MAGAZINE
"Dazzling debut.... Parker's subtle and sensuous sounds reflect exotic
flavors of India, the Middle East and Latin America." - PALO ALTO
DAILY NEWS
"Although entirely instrumental, Sangria speaks. Maybe it's the
technical virtuosity abounding in the multiplicity of sounds - in the
santur or sarangi, or the tabla or timbales. Maybe it's in the emotive
resonance of what's behind the sounds, like the longing of separation
in "Between the Lines," where Parker's fingers dance across the keys
in precise, measured movements, in graceful arching and sweeping
strokes, or in the spectacle of wonder in "Debajo De La Lluvia" or the
"Tenth Journey." Whatever it is, Parker's Sangria is a lively,
adventurous exploration into a hybrid global identity." - LEO WEEKLY
"Parker brings a wide variety of influences to Sangria, ranging from
Indian and Middle Eastern music to Afro-Cuban salsa and Brazilian
samba. She obviously appreciates the Eastern-influenced spirituality
and mysticism of John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, and
Lonnie Liston Smith, but her composing also contains elements of
everyone from Pat Metheny to Chick Corea.... Parker, of course, didn't
invent the idea of world jazz, but she keeps it moving forward...
demonstrating that the fusion of jazz and world music still has plenty
of possibilities after all these years -- and a global perspective
serves Parker well throughout the rewarding Sangria." - ALL MUSIC
GUIDE
"This collection of eight original instrumentals by Mariah Parker is
just one of many examples of the infusion of East Indian music into
Western music, but to my ears one of the most successful." -
AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
BIO
Mariah Parker (composer and multi-instrumentalist), while completing
her degree in music at UC Santa Cruz, worked with ethnomusicologist
Fred Lieberman and Mickey Hart on the "Planet Drum" project. She has
performed in the US and Europe, and worked with many musicians of note
including composer Pauline Oliveros, the late Dumisani Maraire
(renowned composer from Zimbabwe) and others. She has studied with
jazz great Art Lande and Latin jazz pianist extraordinaire Rebeca
Mauléon, and performs regularly with the trend-setting world music
group Ancient Future.
http://www.mariahparkermusic.com
http://www.mariahparkermusic.com/FirstFlight.mp3