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Helium Music Project at Terraza 7 Train Cafe

Courtesy of Brian Shankar Adler | Posted on September 5, 2013

Where

Terraza 7 Train Cafe
40 19 GLEANE ST
Elmhurst, NY
Map
718 803 9602

When

Wed, September 25, 2013
9:30 am

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Musicians

About

Argentine-American percussionist/composer Brian Shankar Adler had his first musical experience at the age of five, studying North Indian music. Adler went on to study percussion at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Billy Hart, Billy Higgins, Danilo Pérez, Bob Moses, among others who helped him discover his own voice incorporating jazz, Indian, South American and western classical traditions. Adler’s understanding of these four various rhythmic traditions contribute to his uniquely earthy and melodic approach to the drums.

Since then, Brian has toured around the world and performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Thelonious (Buenos Aires), the Ear Shot Jazz festival (Seattle), and Passinger Fabrik (Munich). Dave Wayne of Jazz Review.com wrote: “Adler is an amazing instrumentalist who has seemingly mastered all aspects of percussion… his bubbling, percolating rhythms carry the music forward in the most graceful possible ways.”...

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