MUSIC PEOPLE: 5ive Style, Afro Celt Sound System, Louis Armstrong, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Albert Ayler, Johann Sebastian Bach, Harrison Bankhead, The Beatles, Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, Art Blakey, The Blue Man Group, The Blues Brothers, David Bowie, Glenn Branca, Anthony Braxton, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Peter Brötzmann, James Brown, Dave Brubeck, John Cage, Wendy Carlos, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, Ray Charles, Stanley Clarke, George Clinton, Greg Cohen, Bootsy Collins, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Cream, Miles Davis, Morris Day, DJ Spooky, Eric Dolphy, Dave Douglas, Tom Dowd, Hamid Drake, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Keith Emerson, Brian Eno, Explosions in the Sky, Falco, Fred Frith, Peter Gabriel, Jan Garbarek, Jerry Garcia, Jimmy Garrison, Dizzy Gillespie, Philip Glass, Evelyn Glennie, Larry Graham, David Grisman, Trilok Gurtu, Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Harris, Mickey Hart, Billie Holiday, William Hooker, Zakir Hussain, Peter Kowald, Bobby McFerrin, Jimi Hendrix, Dave Holland, James Jamerson, Keith Jarrett, Quincy Jones, Bill Laswell, Jöelle Léandre, Alvin Lee, George Lewis, Abbey Lincoln, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob Marley, John McLaughlin, Edgar Meyer, Charles Mingus, Butch Morris, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mudhoney, Christian Muthspiel, Youssou N'Dour, Nirvana, Yoko Ono, William Parker, Gary Peacock, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Terry Riley, Sam Rivers, Max Roach, The Rolling Stones, Pharoah Sanders, Irène Schweitzer, Ravi Shankar, Archie Shepp, Horace Silver, Matthew Shipp, Wayne Shorter, Sigur Rós, Nina Simone, Sonic Youth, Spring Heel Jack, Gene Simmons, Sting, Billy Strayhorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sly Stone, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, TBC, Tortoise, Pete Townsend, McCoy Tyner, U2, Ken Vandermark, David S. Ware, Mike Watt, Eberhard Weber, Stevie Wonder, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Joe Zawinul, and John Zorn
NON-MUSIC PEOPLE: Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Campbell, Jonathan Carroll, Dave Chappelle, Margaret Cho, Bill Cosby, Albert Einstein, Michael Ende, Buckminster Fuller, Neil Gaiman, Gary Giddins, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Henson, Don Hertzfeldt, Werner Herzog, Hundertwasser, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jack Kerouac, Martin Luther King, Jr., Klaus Kinski, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, George Lucas, Seth McFarlane, Mummenschanz, Frank Oz, Monty Python, Plato, Jackson Pollock, Rainer Maria Rilke, Chris Rock, Carl Sagan, Jeff Schlanger, Susan Sontag, Steven Spielberg, Tom Stoppard, Mark Twain, Tom Tykwer, Wim Wenders, Malcolm X, and Robin Williams
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Animal, Bugs Bunny, Cookie Monster, Guy Grand, Stewie Griffin, Indiana Jones, Kermit the Frog, Auntie Mame, Jack Skeleton, Spock, Ziggy Stardust, The Tick, Too Much Coffee Man, Willy Wonka, Yoda, and Zorba the Greek
MUSIC FILMS/MOVIES: Across the Universe, Amadeus, Bamboozled, The Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers 2000, Bring on the Night, Calle 54, Cecil Taylor: All the Notes, Cecil Taylor: The Jazz Master Class Series from NYU, Chops, The Commitments, Fantasia, Fanasia 2000, Flow: Living In The Stream Of Music, From the Mouthpiece on Back, Greendale, Hair, Immortal Beloved, Jazz '34: Remembrances of Kansas City Swing, Joe Zawinul: A Musical Portrait, Keith Jarrett: Art of Improvisation, Koyaanisqatsi, Modulations: Cinema for the Ear, Musician, My Name Is Albert Ayler, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Off the Road, On the Edge, Ornette: Made in America, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey, The Red Violin, Rising Tones Cross, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, School of Rock, Shine, The Song Remains the Same, Sound??, Space is the Place, Spiritworld, Step Across The Border, Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Tom Dowd & The Language of Music, Tommy, Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie, The Wall, and Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music
NON-MUSIC FILMS/MOVIES: Dead Poets Society and Stranger Than Fiction
TV SHOWS: 3-2-1 Contact, Dungeons & Dragons, Family Guy, and The Tick (animated)
BOOKS: Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion, Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton, Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music, New York Is Now!: The New Wave of Free Jazz, Who Owns Music?, and Zen Guitar
TOM ZLABINGER is an instructor of music at York College/CUNY and is the director of The York College Big Band, The Blue Notes, and The Summer Jazz Program. He is a professional bass player and an ethnomusicologist with a focus on jazz. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the CUNY Graduate Center and his dissertation topic is on the contemporary jazz and improvised music scene in Vienna, Austria.
After finishing an International Baccalaureate Diploma at the American International School of Vienna in Austria, Tom completed a B.A. in music at Grinnell College and an M.A. in jazz performance at Queens College/CUNY. His bass teachers have included Bob Anderson (Minnesota Orchestra), Dan Breeze, Terry Burns, Anthony Cox, Leon Lee Dorsey, Mark Dresser, Henry Grimes, Rich Mollin, Gary Raynor, and Jay Young.
Since relocating to New York in 2000, Tom has performed with a wide range of people, including Marshall Allen, Richard Augustin, Lewis Barnes, Glenn Branca, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Steve Dalachinsky, Marc Edwards, Billy Ficca, Lukas Foss, Eddie Gale, Wycliffe Gordon, Hill Greene, Gunter Gruner, Antonio Hart, Jason Hwang, Bonnie Kane, Matt Lavelle, Daniel Levin, Lukas Ligeti, Sabir Mateen, Emeline Michel, Ravish Momin, Ras Moshe, Todd Nicholson, Anders Nilsson, Bern Nix, William Parker, Dave Ross, Tom Shad, Jeff Shurdut, Trudy Silver, Blaise Siwula, Tor Snyder, Steve Swell, Federico Ughi, Chris Welcome, Booker T. Williams, and Kali Z. He has performed at 5C Cultural Center, ABC No Rio, Austrian Cultural Forum, Bowery Poetry Club, The Brecht Forum, Carnegie Hall, Downtown Music Gallery, Freddy's Bar & Backroom, Goodbye Blue Monday, Gramercy Theatre (in the Off-Broadway R&B/soul review From My Hometown), I-Beam, Issue Project Room, Lincoln Center, The Lion's Den, The Living Theatre, Otto's Shrunken Head, Smoke, Stain, and The Stone.
Since beginning regular trips to Vienna, Austria in 2008, he has also performed at the Alte Schmiede, Blue Tomato, Celeste, the Ensemble Theater, Fluc, and V.E.K.K.S. During and as a result of these travels, he has made music with Christoph "Pepe" Auer, Marco Eneidi, Hans Falb, Michael Fischer, Susana Gartmayer, the JazzWerkstatt Wien, D.D. Kern, Lukas König, Hannes Krebs, Noid, Fritz Novotny, Franz Oberthaler, Daniel Pabst, Andreas Pichler, Mario Rechtern, Wolfgang Reisinger, Donald Robinson, Damon Smith, Uli Soyka, Georg Vogel, and Eric Zinman.
TOM'S CURRENT PROJECTS
The NYC IMPROVISER'S ALLIANCE is an informal group of musicians, venues, and organizations intended to help free jazz musicians connect with one another and promote performances. The Free Jazz Coalition is based in New York, NY but encourages people around the world to register and submit gig information. For more information, click here.
The TOM ZLABINGER QUARTET is an improv group featuring Nonoko Yoshida (alto), Dave Schnug (flute/alto/tenor), TZ (bass), and Dave Miller (drums).
The TOM ZLABINGER SOMETHING is an open project that is not completely defined until the performance. The only stable ingredient is Tom.
The TOM ZLABINGER STRING TRIO is a tonal improv group featuring Carolin Pook (violin), TZ (bass), and Dave Miller (drums).
YORK COLLEGE ENDEAVORS
The YORK COLLEGE BIG BAND is the college-level jazz ensemble at York College. The YCBB is a 2-credit course that meets Wednesday evenings during the academic year and is open to all York College students who have basic proficiency on their instrument and can read music. In addition to various events on campus, the YCBB has performed at the CUNY Jazz Festival, the Forest Hills Jazz Festival, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Make Music New York, Medgar Evers College, and Queens College. For more information on the YCBB, click here.
The YORK COLLEGE COMMUNITY JAM SESSION is held most Monday nights (Wednesdays over the summer). The jam session is open to the greater York College community (students, faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the community). Musicians are encouraged to perform and meet other musicians. Non-musicians are also invited to listen to the music making. Tunes are usually called from The Real Book, Sixth Edition (Hal Leonard). Check the above schedule for date changes.
The YORK COLLEGE JAZZ FACULTY TRIO consists of members of the jazz faculty at York College. The trio currently features Yoichi Uzeki (piano) and George Gray (drums).
The YORK COLLEGE JAZZ FORUM brings world-class jazz musicians to York College to perform and work with students. The series is co-produced by the York College Performing Arts Center and the York College Performing & Fine Arts Department. To date, featured artists have included Roy Ayers, Charles Bartlett, Cecil Bridgewater, Carla Cook, Jimmy Cozier, Antonio Hart, Patience Higgins, Bill Jacobs, Oliver Lake, Arturo O'Farrill, Gino Sitson, Sue Terry, Steve Turre, Ray Vega, Lenny White, and Rachel Z.
The YORK COLLEGE SUMMER JAZZ PROGRAM is a tuition-free, six-week intensive program in jazz history, jazz performance, and music theory for New York City public high school sophomores and juniors made possible by College Now at York College. Students prepare big band repertoire, develop soloing skills, and explore the history of jazz. In addition to full-time rhythm section faculty (pianist Yoichi Uzeki, TZ, and drummer George Gray), past guest faculty have included trombonist Dick Griffin, saxophonist Antonio Hart, saxophonist Matana Roberts, trumpeter Ray Vega, drummer Wally "Gator" Watson, and pianist Rachel Z. For more information on The York College Summer Jazz Program, click here.
danke fürs adden. irgendwo glaubte ich zusätzl. eine nachricht von dir zu haben, aber jetzt habe ich nix gefunden. hoffentlich hab ich nix gelöscht. war jednefalls fein dich kennengelernt zu haben und wir sehen uns ja bald in wien. freut mich. inzwischen liebe grüße, d
Beautiful music last night Tom. I learned a lot about my own self just having to blow without a mic. what more can i want from the music? A healing lesson is always the BOMB!
