LPC appears currently in quartet with Irving Acao (sax) ex Irakere, Felipe Cabrera (bass) ex Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and Leonardo Montana (piano) student at the CNSM of Paris. Lukmil Perez has also played with LA BANDA JB, HABANA ENSEMBLE, TONY PEREZ, and EL INDIO SEXTET. He still plays with SERGENT GARCIA, SEBASTIAN SCHUNKE, ERNESTO TITO PUENTES, and ORLANDO POLEO.
Discography:
1993 :
“La Dama del Son” LA BANDA JB.
1997 :
“Descarga Santa” JULIO PADRON y LOS AMIGOS DE SANTA AMALIA.
“ Mambo Mania” HABANA ENSEMBLE.
1998 :
“ Nuevos Horizontes” EL INDIO SEXTET (Dreyfus Jazz / Sony).
1999 :
“Made in Animas” FELIPE CABRERA (Win Win Music).
2001 :
“In Maduro” TONY PEREZ.
“Evidence From El Cayo” FELIPE CABRERA.
Nouvel album EL INDIO SEXTET.
2002 :
“Colectivo 01” LUKMIL PEREZ .
2003:
“Mouvement” SEBASTIAN SCHUNKE (timba records/BMG)
2004:
“Cuida mis prendas” ERNESTO TITO PUENTE
Festivals:
2007:
International tour with SERGENT GARCIA.
2006:
European tour with SERGENT GARCIA. -
Jazz festival in Caracas, Venezuela and Bogota, Colombia
with SEBASTIAN SCHUNKE.
2005 :
Tour with ERNESTO TITO PUENTE.
2004 :
Jazz festival in Caracas, Venezuela with SEBASTIAN SCHUNKE. -
JVC Jazz festival in Paris with ERNESTO TITO PUENTE et ORLANDO POLEO. -
Kent Jazz festival , Germany with SEBASTIAN SCHUNKE. -
Jazz festival in Dakar, Senegal with PARIS SALSA.
2003:
Jazz festival in Bogota, Colombia with SEBASTIAN SCHUNKE.
2001:
Marciac Jazz festival and Nice and Brignole's Jazz festival , with EL INDIO QUINTET.
1995/2000:
Barbados, New York, Paris (Disney) and “Jazz Plaza” at Havana Jazz festivals with HABANA ENSEMBLE.
Influences
Jack Dejohnette, Tony Williams, Jeff Tain watts, Ernesto Simpson, Max Roach, Jo Jones, Brian Blade, Steve Gadd, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Chick Correa, Joe Zawinul, Roy Hargrove, Winton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Dave Holland, Miroslav Vitous, Keith Jarrett, George Benson, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau, Stevie Wonder, Anita Baker, Rachelle Ferrell, Take 6, Brian McKnight, Will Downing, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Djavan, Ivan Lins, Tania Maria, Irakere, Emiliano Salvador, Los Van Van
Born in La Habana on september 10, 1970, Lukmil Perez Herrera studied drums and percussion from age 11at the Escuela Elemental de Arte (Elementary School of Art), under the guidance of former Irakere drummer Enrique Pla. Jazz became his passion since then, which led him by the end of his studies to start playing with groups such as Banda JV and Perspectivas, as well as with most members of the Havana Ensemble, a reunion of ex-Irakere musicians and a common path to all contemporary Cuban jazzmen. With them he did his first internationnal tours: USA, Central and South America, and Europe.
Later, in 1999, he decided to stay in Europe to expand his career and quickly started taking part in different projects, namely with the likes of trompeter Mario Morejon "El Indio", bassist Felipe Cabrera, American soul-jazz singer Muriel Fowler, and in Jerome Savary's acclaimed theatrical piece Looking for Chano.
Currently established in Paris, France, Lukmil plays regularly with artists Ernesto Tito Puentes, Orlando Poleo and Sergent Garcia, Olivier Manoury Quartet and is simultaneously readying his own project, the Lukmil Perez Colectivo, a fusion of Cuban folk, soul, funk and electro that includes his all time friends trompeter Julio Padron (Irakere, Afro Cuban All Stars, Looking for Chano), trombonist Juan Carlos Marin, guitarist Norberto Rodriguez, bassist Ronald Moran and pianist Andre Sutre.
"ANGELA", live in Toulouse, France 2002, with Julio Padron (tp), Juan Carlos Marin (tb), Ronald Moran (b) and André Soutre (p).
que bola asereco, estamos en Paris con Alexander Abreu y pense que te podiamos ver por aca..me eche el video en toulouse, esta estelar. POr dondede andas ahora?? Un abrazon Day
