BOMBAY JAZZ
Larry Coryell, Ronu Majumdar, Vijay Ghate, Aditya Kalyanpur
GLOBAL CONVERSATION-
Kala Ramnath, , Frank Martin, Kai Eckhardt, Dewayne Pate,
Salar Nader,Mukul Dongre, Mayoukh Baumikh, Celso Alberti
KIRWANI QUARTET
Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Gwyneth Wentink, Vijay Ghate
...AND The Funky Chunky Horns with TOP brass monster Mic Gilette
Influences
Pandit Pran Nath, Terry Riley, John Coltrane,Bade Gulam Ali Khan, Zakir Hussain Etta James, John McLaughlin, Bismillah Khan, Leni Stern, Selva Ganesh, Krishna Bhatt, Dexter Gordon,Salamaat Ali Khan, Sonny Rollins, MIchael McClure, Kishore Amonkar, Nikil Banerjee, Shahid Parvez
NEWS --- John McLaughlin's Floating Point CD nominated for a 2008 Grammy "Best Contemporary Jazz" featuring George playing soprano sax on the track "Abbaji" - dedicated to Ustad Allah Rakha Khan. George also received an American Composers Forum 2009 Commission to write the Music for Michael McClure's "Double Moire- for Francis Crick" The piece will premiere at the Jazz School on May 3rd 2009.
BIO---George Brooks is a diverse and prolific saxophonist and composer. For over twenty-five years he has explored the relationship between jazz and Indian Classical music and has released three CDs of original compositions, Lasting Impression and Night Spinner on Moment Records and Summit on Earth Brother Music; all hailed as groundbreaking works in the realm of Indian jazz-fusion.
George has performed world wide with many of India's most respected artists including Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain, Ud. Sultan Khan, Dr. L Subramanium, U. Srinivas, Vikku Vinayakram, Sivamani, Shankar Mahadevan, Krishna Bhatt, Kala Ramnath and many, many others. He has also performed with American minimalist pioneer Terry Riley, guitarists Larry Coryell and John McLaughlin; blues diva Etta James; avant-garde saxophonist Anthony Braxton; Motown legends, the Temptations, Mexican pop star, Juan Gabriel, guitarist Leni Stern and new American roots icon, Jackie Greene.
George is the recipient of the American Composers Forum 2007 “Continental Harmony” prize and has been commissioned by Opera Piccola to compose an Indian, jazz score for their 2008 opera “Mirrors of Mumbai - A Tale of Modern India”. He is the recipient of the 2003 Arts International touring grant and the 2004 Arts International “Artist Exploration” grant.
A graduate (1979) of the New England Conservatory's jazz program, George studied saxophone with Joe Allard and composition and theory with Jaki Byard, George Russell and Wm. Thomas McKinley. After graduation he developed a close personal relationship with classical Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath. Brooks studied with Pran Nath-ji from 1980 until his death in 1996, absorbing the master’s incredible nuance of tone and pitch and his deep spiritual reverence for the essence of raga.
George has taught on the faculties of Mills College in Oakland, CA, The Jazz School in Berkeley, CA and UC Santa Cruz. He has presented workshops and master classes at the California Institute for the Arts, Clemson University, Northern Illinois University, L.A. Music Academy, McNally Smith College of Music and the Hong Kong Cultural Center.
He resides in northern California with his wife, theater director/composer, Emily Klion and their three children.
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Hi George!! welcome in my little space!! I'm well but is very very cold and I miss too much the hot and the traffic jam and all the friends!! Hope to meet you soon in Italy many kisses Marilena
