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Laksar Reese - is a Los Angeles Based Saxophonist/Flautist, Bandleader, composer, arranger & Business owner. In addition to being the president of International Woodwind, Inc, he tours throughout the U.S. with the Chuchito Valdes Afro-Cuban ensemble. He also leads his straight-ahead jazz ensembles on Tenor/Soprano Saxophones and Flute. He has performed worldwide touring throughout the United States, U.S.A, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, Mexico, Cuba and the Caribbean. He performs frequently around Los Angeles, Chicago, and throughout the Midwest leading his Jazz Quintet and as a sideman with the Chuchito Valdes. He received a Bachelor of Fine arts degree in Music Performance from Cornish College of the arts, in Seattle, U.S.A. here he studied with some of the great jazz masters, such as Hadley Caliman on saxophone, Julian Priester, compostion and arranging, and Paul Taub – Classical Flute studies. These great musicians had performed and toured with John Coltrane, Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Duke Ellington and many more.
For the past six years Laksar Reese has been a featured member of the Chuchito Valdés Afro-Cuban Ensemble. He recorded and co-produced the Latin Jazz Album - "Encantado" with Chuchito Valdés which was released on the New York Based Record Company - Towncrier Recordings. The 2nd CD by this ensemble was also co-produced by Laksar Reese, entitled”La Timba” distributed by SONYdiscos./MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmhvbGx5d29vZG11c2ljd29ybGQuYml6">hollywoodmusicworld.biz.
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
Thank you for your request!! I will be seeing you as soon as I scrape up enough change to buy your bass saxophone... And I promise that when I do I will play it every day!!
