Cochise's album, "The Kemosabe Therapy", an eclectic ensemble of "word songz", was nominated for the 2005 Indian Summer Music Awards. Powerful Poetry over Native American Flute blending Hip Hop Flava & Traditional Beats.
It is absolutely motivating stimulating and liberating! Buy it now!
Featuring the hit songs: Old Ones Who Whisper, Pro-Ject, Coyote State of Mind, In Search Of A Dream, The Kemosabe Therapy, Stop Dreaming, and How the West Was One.
Humm...Who I'd like 2 meet! Well definitely U and me...and Jesus and Moses and Buddha, Mohammed and Ali and we can have a Pellegrino, sit down and figure out why it ain't happenin'...yet. Oh yeah, President Obama and Nurse Ratchet with John Trudell and of course John Haggee, but I'll have 2 pay his "WAY"..., but NOW...I must thank THE INSPIRATIONZ!!!!! (Hey Smokey and The Miracles r opening!!)
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
Duke Ellington, and of course Billy Strayhorn, J. B. Little Richard, Elvis, Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran, Link Wray, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, The Beatles, The Doors, Janis, THE CLASH, The Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Red Hot Chilli Peppers. My Roots In Portland L & G: MEN W/O WORK AND THE PRIMITIVE SEX CELLS!! Dinosaur Records! Hi Brad and Bett!! Cindy Peachy and the 1980's Express. Special K and those damn mini-skirts! My bestest gitgjo master: Twitch Mitchell and the funkyest bass in the land: Dan Davis! And the Fabulous Zygote Horny Section!! The Saytricon and the Long Goodbye!! (Miss U Steve Sterling!!) Chris & Emily Beleele and baby! Carolyn Cannon, Jeff and Clark!! AND NOW THE LIST IS AND GOES...
Mr. Jamie Starr, Joey Coco and HM Buff. Mr. Mojo Risin' and The Peacefrog Ensemble, Mr. Ziggy Stardust and Davey Jones, Pink Floyd and Syd Barret. Mr. McKinley Morganfield, James Marshall Hendricks, Procol Harem and Robin Trower, The Rolling Stones, Earth, Wind and Fire, Parliament and FUNKADELIC, Sly and The Family Stone, Mr. (Rick) James Johnson & Lady T(eena Marie): la Dona, Roger Troutman and the Zapp Band (Duzint Really Madder!!), JAMES BROWN??!!~JAMES BROWN!!!! Ecnirp, 94 East, The Revolution, The NPG, Flyte Tyme and The Secret. MUDDY WATERS, Big Mama Thorton, T. Bone-Walker, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Albert "Ice Man" Collins, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Albert, Freddie, and B.B. King. Junior Wells, JAMES COTTON, Sonny Boy Williamson I & II, Paul Butterfield (The Standard), Charlie Musselwhite, Willie Dixon, Pinetop Perkins, Johnny Winter and Ray "Killer" Allison. Eric Clapton-Carlos Santana-David Gilmore. Todd Rundgren and Utopia, Laurie Anderson, VAN MORRISON, Peter Gabriel, Foo Fighters, and N.E.R.D., Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Steely Dan, Maurice Day and Charlie Parker w/ The Time, The Bird, 'and Trane, Pharoah Sanders, Gato Barbieri, Cecil Taylor, Miles and Chet, Mingus and Alphonse Mouzon. Steveland Wonder (An Originator), MARVIN GAYE (I Vote 4 U, Ur the best), Ella Fitzgerald (Ur the greatest). John Lennon and George Harrision, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Gil Scot-Heron and The Last Poets. Mel Brooks, Sid Cesear, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, GEORGE CARLIN, and the Mighty Richard Pryor. (The Provocators!) All the original Not Ready 4 Prime Time Players plus The witty Nat X, Coffee Talk w/ Linda Richman and the supremely talented Phil Hartman. Mr. Charlie Hill, Mr. Will Sampson, Chief Dan George, Mr. Jesse Ed Davis and Mr. John Trudell. The Orginal and New Porcupine Singers, OU men: Tom Mauchahty Ware and Millard Clark (all U 49ers Represent!!), The White Eagle Singers, Stoney Park, The Manderee Singers, Northen Wind, The Boyz, Midnight Express, Elk Whistle, The Silvercloud Singers, Rose Hill, Southern Thunder, Oakland Ramblers and Grey Horse 2 name a few. (The InFLUTEnces) John Rainer Jr., Doc Tate, Kevin Locke. (The Storytellers) Adrian C. Louis, David Treuer, N. Scott Momaday, Joy Harjo, Louise Erdich, Heid Erdich, Linda Hogan and Tompson Highway. MOVIES?: Alfred Hitchkock, Sergio Leone & The Maestro: Ennio Morricone, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Westwood-any movie acting or directing and Jack Nicholson's Freakin' "McMurphy" is the hero peeps. The Mpls. seen: The TC Jammers, Jason Peterson De Laire and Jellybean Johnson. The Detroit Crawl, The Family, Madhouse, and Ronny Reggae. And finally, Passion, Loneliness, Poverty, Mean Chicks and Cruel Women. And of course The Great Mystery!
Halito, Chin Chookma Ikana-ma! Hello, How r U Friends!! -
CONGRATULATIONS 2 COCHISE ANDERSON 2007-2008 RECIPIENT OF THE FIRST NATIONS COMPOSERS INITIATIVE-COMMON ROOTS GRANT ADMINISTERED BY THE AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM!!
Congratulations to Cochise Anderson
Artist of the Month for February - 2006
Click Award to hear music from his CD The Kemosabe Therapy
Chickasaw/Choctaw Nations
Flute and Spoken Word
M. COCHISE ANDERSON, from the CHICKASAW and CHOCTAW Nations of OKLAHOMA, who grew up in North Torrance ~ LA, Calif. & Portland, OR, is a musician, actor, poet, spoken word performance artist, playwright, storyteller, and educator. He studied THEATRE ARTS and PHILOSOPHY at Portland (OR) State University and at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in NYC. Cochise received the Jerome Fellowship for playwriting (The Education of Benjamin Franklin) and the Bush Artist Fellowship for Storytelling/ Performance Art (The Only Good Poet is a Read Poet). He has performed at The National Museum of the American Indian twice and The Open House Arts Festival at the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He has also been a repeat performer at the Lincoln Center Outdoors Series in New York City. As an award-winning playwright he has extended his craft by initiating a creative writing/spoken word theater for young Native students in the Twin Cities area. Cochise has been the instructor for The Penumbra Theatre's Summer Youth Institute and he has worked as a Native American cultural arts educator for the past seventeen years throughout the country. From elementary schools to colleges and national cultural institutions he has developed a variety of curriculums and programs to entertain and educate all people about the beauty and struggle of Native America.
Cochise, an accomplished professional actor, has appeared in off-off Broadway and regional productions as well as Film and Television. He founded and was the artistic director of Chuka Lokoli ("Community"), Native American Theatre Ensemble in NYC with The Ensemble Studio Theatre. His acting credits include, (TV) The Cosby Show, Homicide: Life On The Streets, (Film) Daughters of The Dust, Bill's Gun Shop, and (Theatre) "To Kill A Mockingbird," at The Great American History Theatre and he originated the title role of Eddie Rose in "The Independence of Eddie Rose," at the Seattle Group Theatre. He recently completed a national tour playing Stevie Jackson in William S. Yellowrobe's Jr.'s play "Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers," at The Penumbra Theatre and the Trinity Repertory Company. Cochise was Kanati in the new retelling of "Unto These Hills" at Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee, NC '06. Cochise was also the featured performer 4 the HOOP Project conferene at UCLA in August '06. Cochise intiated a new massive Chicago Blues Band, COCHISE & The Unconditional Luv! A must see 4 any blues lover! At the present, Cochise is leading a Native American Delegation over 2 Australia as part of the International Indigenous "DREAMING FESTIVAL" in Brisbane, Australia. He will then b leading a Peforming Arts Residency once again in Choctaw, MS!! Then it's back 2 teaching a 3 week storytelling residency with The Stepping Stone Youth Development Theatre 4 all ages in St. Paul this funky summer!! Thanks 2 all MYSPACE friends 4 all their continued support Che Hullo Li!
He dedicates his life's work 2 his Mother, Juanita A. Anderson and Father, Gilbert R. Anderson, practitioners of unconditional love, inspiring dreams and visions, as well as his Grandmother, Catherine "Granny" Pickens-Willmond of McMillian, OK who is a Chickasaw Language Teacher at UCLA, and is 1 of the main sources (ok the main source!:-)) 4 the complete analytical dictionary of r language "aunumpa" 4 the people. Chi Hullo Li Iposi!...U r Sacred 2 Me Granny!
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thks for the requestage its a pleasure to add u and thks for passin by nice page ..its different.. havent heard of u guys before ... have a nice day jane2307
I just returned from Fonda, New York. Tom Porters place. They had a festival. Mostly rain. This weekend I'll be Montreal Festival en Arts, then next weekend is our Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow-wow. Staying busy like you. Great to hear that your working hard. Time seems to be going to fast for me.
