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NOV 1 – JAMSHIED SHARIFI GROUP
Time: 9:30p
Cover: TBA
Jamshied Sharifi
Ole Mathisen
Damon Banks
Ben Wittman
Jamshied Sharifi is a New York-based composer, producer, and keyboardist. He has composed the scores for the feature films Harriet The Spy, Down To Earth, Clockstoppers, Muppets From Space, Footsteps In Africa, and Tracks, as well as contributing music to The Thomas Crown Affair, The Rugrats Movie, and numerous other films and television shows. As a producer, arranger, and keyboardist, he has performed and/or recorded with Paula Cole, Ray Charles, Dream Theater, Donny Osmond, Mis-teeq, Marc Cohn, Laurie Anderson, Yungchen Lhamo, Hassan Hakmoun, Kailash Kher, Mirabai Ceiba, and many others. His world-inspired debut recording, A Prayer For The Soul Of Layla, was named ‘Best World Album’ by New Age Voice magazine, and ‘Best Album of the Year’ by music critic and syndicated radio host John Diliberto. Sharifi attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Jazz Composition and Arranging, and additional studies in Film Scoring. His latest recording, entitled One, was released in 2008. In 2009 he served as an arranger on the Inaugural Concert for President Obama at Lincoln Memorial....
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NOV 1 – JAMSHIED SHARIFI GROUP
Time: 9:30p
Cover: TBA
Jamshied Sharifi
Ole Mathisen
Damon Banks
Ben Wittman
Jamshied Sharifi is a New York-based composer, producer, and keyboardist. He has composed the scores for the feature films Harriet The Spy, Down To Earth, Clockstoppers, Muppets From Space, Footsteps In Africa, and Tracks, as well as contributing music to The Thomas Crown Affair, The Rugrats Movie, and numerous other films and television shows. As a producer, arranger, and keyboardist, he has performed and/or recorded with Paula Cole, Ray Charles, Dream Theater, Donny Osmond, Mis-teeq, Marc Cohn, Laurie Anderson, Yungchen Lhamo, Hassan Hakmoun, Kailash Kher, Mirabai Ceiba, and many others. His world-inspired debut recording, A Prayer For The Soul Of Layla, was named ‘Best World Album’ by New Age Voice magazine, and ‘Best Album of the Year’ by music critic and syndicated radio host John Diliberto. Sharifi attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Jazz Composition and Arranging, and additional studies in Film Scoring. His latest recording, entitled One, was released in 2008. In 2009 he served as an arranger on the Inaugural Concert for President Obama at Lincoln Memorial.
Ole Mathisen resides in New York, where he is a composer, producer, and arranger. He is a critically acclaimed saxophonist. He is an active performer on the New York scene, tours internationally, and works as a studio musician. He has been involved with classical, jazz, electronic, ethnic, and experimental music, and he draws heavily on this wealth of musical experience when composing. He is currently a member of the Jazz Studies Faculty at Columbia University. Ole has worked on more than 80 albums, composed several film and TV scores, and has performed and/or recorded with: Paula Cole, Louie Vega, Omar Hakim, Darryl Jones, Hiram Bullock, Tom Coster, Mark Egan, Steve Smith, Mino Cinelu, Peter Erskine, Eddie Gomez, Badal Roy, Ron Carter, Grady Tate, Will Lee, LaVerne Baker, Randy Brecker, Michael Gibbs, Harvie Swartz, Jon Christensen, Gary Husband, Cyro Batista, Bill Bruford, Kenny Barron, Hilton Ruiz, Adam Nussbaum, Keiko Lee, Dream Theater. and many others. He is a member of Afromantra, FFEAR, SYOTOS, and the leader of Chinese Horoscope.
Bassist /composer Damon Banks has played and/or collaborated with: Peter Gabriel, Caetano Veloso, Arto Lindsay, Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar, Angelique Kidjo, Souleymane Faye, Karsh Kale, Corin Curschellas, Majek Fashek, Eileen Ivers, Gigi (from Ethiopia), George Benson, Hubert Laws, Chico Hamilton, Leo “Wadada” Smith, Marc Ribot, George Howard, Miki Howard, Loose Ends, The Neville Brothers, Martha Wash, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, KRS-ONE, D.J. SPOOKY; poets Ntozake Shange, Sekou Sundiata and Saul Williams; composers Jamshied Sharifi, Diedre Murray, Peter Scherer, and Richard Horowitz; and choreographer/dancers Francesca Harper and Roxane Butterfly. He has performed on the soundtracks for Footsteps in Africa, Muppets from Space, NBC Cosby Mysteries, and many jingles.
Percussionist, composer, and producer Ben Wittman was raised in the creative and adventuresome atmosphere of Bennington College, Vermont in the ’60s and ’70s. Ben attended college at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. While in Boston, Ben dug deeply into the music of Africa, Cuba, and Brazil. He moved to New York in 1993, where he continues to combine his love of world rhythms with songwriting and production. He has recorded and/or performed with a wide range of artists, including Paul Simon, Paula Cole, Laurie Anderson, Erasure, Jonatha Brooke, Rosanne Cash; jazz artists Don Byron, Keiko Lee, and Jiro Yoshida; and world music artists Eileen Ivers, Solas, Yungchen Lhamo, Mamak Khadem, and Cathie Ryan.
BLURB
Jamshied Sharifi has composed scores for Hollywood films, written arrangements for major artists such as Ray Charles and Carole King, and performed with world music artists such as Kailash Kher, Yungchen Lhamo, and Mamak Khadem. But the music that is closest to his heart is from his two solo records, One and A Prayer For The Soul Of Layla. On November 1st he will perform songs from those records with his long-time friends and collaborators: Ole Mathisen on clarinet, Damon Banks on bass, and Benjamin Wittman on drums and percussion.
YOUTUBE LINKS
Setaa (live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KOpAXEhojg
Di’vaneh (live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3EI0Bqg5Hw
Through The Veil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXY1LmEzHlg&feature=related
PRESS
“One of the most perfect albums of 1997.”
John Diliberto, Echoes
“Music that is perfectly poised, passionately played, and serenely orchestrated.”
Jazziz
“Spiritual and haunting in the best way, A Prayer For The Soul Of Layla repays repeated playing.”
Chris Nickson, Amazon.com
“Sharifi has created a rich and textured album that pulls from Moroccan, Tibetan, African, Indian and Iranian sources while maintaining a consistent and even gravity amongst a flurry of voices and instruments…This entire record is larger than life…”
Derek Beres, PopMatters.com
“For One, Jamshied Sharifi gathered musicians from the US, Iran, India, Africa, Ireland, and Tibet. In the studio, they erased the boundaries and oceans that separate their homelands, to create music with a message of limitless creative and spiritual freedom and sacred oneness…This disc’s 11 songs tell 1001 tales, but the ultimate theme can be traced to that of just one.”
Shannon Holliday
“With the creation of One Mr. Sharifi has thrown away the geographical map where musical traditions meet borders and we are all the better for his leap into the unknown.”
World Music Central
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