Cindy Blackman Santana Band at Birdland

Cindy Blackman Santana is a virtuoso drummer whose artistry spans the realms of jazz and rock. As a bandleader and as a musician, Cindy is a sound innovator with a passion for pushing creative boundaries and exploring movement and change. She is as known for the nuances and colors she brings to her beats and fills as she is for the sheer power of her soulful playing. Some drummers act, some react. Some keep time, others create it. Cindy Blackman Santana is among the few who can, writes Mike Zwerin of the International Herald Tribune. Cindy has been creating magnificent musical time and space since the beginning of her career as a busking street performer in New York City in the 80s through the present day, touring the globe and making albums at the top of her gameincluding the critically acclaimed Another Lifetime (2010)...

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Cindy Blackman Santana is a virtuoso drummer whose artistry spans the realms of jazz and rock. As a bandleader and as a musician, Cindy is a sound innovator with a passion for pushing creative boundaries and exploring movement and change. She is as known for the nuances and colors she brings to her beats and fills as she is for the sheer power of her soulful playing. Some drummers act, some react. Some keep time, others create it. Cindy Blackman Santana is among the few who can, writes Mike Zwerin of the International Herald Tribune. Cindy has been creating magnificent musical time and space since the beginning of her career as a busking street performer in New York City in the 80s through the present day, touring the globe and making albums at the top of her gameincluding the critically acclaimed Another Lifetime (2010). In addition to collaborating onstage and in-studio with her own groupalso known as Another Lifetimeshe has toured and recorded with artists including Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, Bill Laswell, Joss Stone, Joe Henderson, Buckethead, Don Pullen, Hugh Masakela, and Angela Bofill. From 1992 to 2007 and again in 2014 s band, performing through multiple world tours and hit albums. In 2010, she was part of the all-star line-up performing Bitches Brew, a tribute to Miles Davis seminal album staged at the San Francisco Jazz Festival and NYC Winter JazzFest.

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