Drummer, Bandleader, & Recording Artist, Cindy Blackman will be performing with her Group, Explorations at The Zinc Bar in New York on January 26th & 27th, 2010.
Cindy Blackman Explorations
Antoine Roney- saxes
Rashaan Carter- bass
Zaccai Curris- fender Rhodes
Marc Cary - synth
Cindy Blackman - drums
Cindy Blackman is one of the most creative and versatile drummers on the scene - a complete musician who can shift effortlessly from straight-ahead jazz to rock to funk, always playing with taste, time, and power. Cindy has gigged and/or recorded with such jazz leaders as Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Sanders, and Sam Rivers; she enjoyed an eleven-year association with funk-rocker Lenny Kravitz and performed on the first two CDs by English pop-soul singer Joss Stone. Cindy Blackman's expansive double CD Music for the New Millennium is “inspired post-bop," wrote Troy Collins in AllAboutJazz.com. “A persuasive reminder of her technical prowess, it reveals a stylistic allegiance to past masters while keeping an eye to the future."
“Dynamics, taste, melody, articulation & time are what Cindy Blackman is all about."- George Carroll - Ejazz News
Cindy Blackman Bio
Born in Ohio and raised in Connecticut, Cindy began her musical career as a New York street performer. She spent three semesters at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and also studied with legendary teacher Alan Dawson. Cindy moved to New York City in the 80's and since that time, she has been seen and heard by millions of people all over the world performing with her own group and during her 15 year stint with retro funk rocker Lenny Kravitz, since 1993. In 1998, Cindy released her first drumming instructional video entitled, “Multiplicity" through Warner Brothers publications.
Cindy has been touted as “one of the hottest drummers in the business, by the Star- Gazette and is regarded as one of the top drummers in the world. She is a solid, dependable drummer who can easily move from straight-ahead jazz to rock to funk and back again. She's upheld the backbeat and created texture for a veritable “Who's Who" in jazz: Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, Don Pullen, Hugh Masekela, Pharaoh Sanders, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill, Bill Laswell, Buckethead.
“Some drummers act, some react. Some keep time, others create it. Cindy Blackman is among the few who can...." says Mike Zwerin of the International Herald Tribune. Talking Drum said, “You can be assured that Ms. Blackman will be around for a long time to come.." She is thunder. She is fire. She is energy. She is passion. She is Cindy Blackman. According to Cindy herself, “The life of music is bigger than all of us."
Cindy Blackman Explorations
Antoine Roney- saxes
Rashaan Carter- bass
Zaccai Curris- fender Rhodes
Marc Cary - synth
Cindy Blackman - drums
Cindy Blackman is one of the most creative and versatile drummers on the scene - a complete musician who can shift effortlessly from straight-ahead jazz to rock to funk, always playing with taste, time, and power. Cindy has gigged and/or recorded with such jazz leaders as Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Sanders, and Sam Rivers; she enjoyed an eleven-year association with funk-rocker Lenny Kravitz and performed on the first two CDs by English pop-soul singer Joss Stone. Cindy Blackman's expansive double CD Music for the New Millennium is “inspired post-bop," wrote Troy Collins in AllAboutJazz.com. “A persuasive reminder of her technical prowess, it reveals a stylistic allegiance to past masters while keeping an eye to the future."
“Dynamics, taste, melody, articulation & time are what Cindy Blackman is all about."- George Carroll - Ejazz News
Cindy Blackman Bio
Born in Ohio and raised in Connecticut, Cindy began her musical career as a New York street performer. She spent three semesters at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and also studied with legendary teacher Alan Dawson. Cindy moved to New York City in the 80's and since that time, she has been seen and heard by millions of people all over the world performing with her own group and during her 15 year stint with retro funk rocker Lenny Kravitz, since 1993. In 1998, Cindy released her first drumming instructional video entitled, “Multiplicity" through Warner Brothers publications.
Cindy has been touted as “one of the hottest drummers in the business, by the Star- Gazette and is regarded as one of the top drummers in the world. She is a solid, dependable drummer who can easily move from straight-ahead jazz to rock to funk and back again. She's upheld the backbeat and created texture for a veritable “Who's Who" in jazz: Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, Don Pullen, Hugh Masekela, Pharaoh Sanders, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill, Bill Laswell, Buckethead.
“Some drummers act, some react. Some keep time, others create it. Cindy Blackman is among the few who can...." says Mike Zwerin of the International Herald Tribune. Talking Drum said, “You can be assured that Ms. Blackman will be around for a long time to come.." She is thunder. She is fire. She is energy. She is passion. She is Cindy Blackman. According to Cindy herself, “The life of music is bigger than all of us."
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