Mumbai Taxi LIVE is Philadelphia Phil (guitar/vocals), Ayo (vocals), Griffin-Sledge (organ, piano, synth, guitar, and vocals) Dave Hahn (bass guitar), Kevin Kouts (on traps).
http://www.nuvo.net/music/article/mumbai-taxi-psychedelic-mambo-and-raga-reggae
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Arsenio Rodriguez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Eliades Ochoa, Jacob Miller, Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana, Beny More, Cachao, Ruben Blades, Eddie Palmieri, King Sunny Ade, Olatunji, Yousou N'Dour, Jefferson Airplane, Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, Dizzy Gilespie, John Coltrane, Jai Uttal, Emmy Lou Harris, Buddy Guy, Ravi Shankar, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, William Carlos Williams, Tom Waits, Tim Hardin, Byron, Mutabaruka, Susanna Baca, Ginger Baker, Allen Ginsberg, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Federico Fellini, Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, John Prine, Dinah Washington, Bird, Billie Holliday, Trout Fishing In America Shorty, Janice Joplin, Genet, Pirandello, Sophocles, Shankara, Lao Tzu, Gotama, Sri Pantanjali, Joseph Conrad, Roque Dalton, Pablo Neruda, Ernesto Cardenal, Billy Pilgrim, Dean Moriarty, Philip Kaufman, Jerry Garcia, Ignatius Riley, Cream, Blind Faith, Richie Havens, Taj Mahal, Nelson Mandela, Prospero, Lope de Vega, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Racine, Calderon de la Barca, Asher Morris, Canned Heat, Jimi Henrdrix, Abby Hoffman, Sunryu Suzuki, Gichin Funikoshi, Morehei Ueshiba, Miyomoto Musashi, Dr. Zuess, Mingus, Miles, Henry V, Sir John Falstaff, Andre Segovia, Verdi, Monet, Marcel Duchamp, Klaus Oldenberg, Tommy Makem, Sarasvati, Ma Kali...
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Indianapolis Star article featuring Mumbai Taxi-- www.indystar.com/entertainment (A Bigger World)
For three decades Philadelphia Phil, (a pseudonym for poet/fiction writer Phillip Henry Christopher), has been writing, arranging and performing music that fuses the world's traditions into intelligent and challenging topical forms.
Denizens of Joe's Sportsmans Lounge in West Chester, The Barn Door in Wilmington, or Bacchanal on South Street in Philly might rememeber Phil's first reggae band, Rhygin. (early 80's) If you're from the Midwest, you might have seen him in Iowa, fronting Agni, with Sharon Bousquet, (who still writes and performs beautiful music), bassist Willam Clancy, keyboardist-arranger, Kepha Maynard, and virtuoso drummer, David Brown. (middle 80's) In the late 80's he joined college circuit favorite, Quasar, and toured Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky for two years. That group included keyboard wizard, Larry Sledge, (Manchild, Temptations, Duke Tomato), bassist-producer, Darryl Briscoe, and Dog Talk vocalist, Cliff White. Then there was Groove Yard at Kilamanjaro (now the Jazz Kitchen) in Indianapolis. (Again with Darryl Briscoe) After disappearing into a cave for ten years, Philadelphia Phil returned as "that Greek boy from Philly that plays salsa", leading the Cuban-style mambo orchestra, Urbanos, which featured saxophonist-arranger, Armando Perez, Jr., and pianist-musical director, Eugenio Urrutia.
Feeling the need to write, as well as get loud and nasty with his guitar, Phil dissolved Urbanos in 2005. Since that time, the music that will be Mumbai Taxi was written and arranged. Mumbai Taxi brings Cuban, African, American and Jamaican influences together. Here on MySpace can you preview demos of Mumbai Taxi music, instrumentation and vocals by Phil alone.
Mumbai Taxi debuted at the Melody Inn in March of 2009.
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-11pm-3am - $5 w/ student ID $8 w/out
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His commentaries have been published in the New York Times, the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Indianapolis Star and every month for 2005 and 2006 in La Opinion. Longer essays on these themes have appeared in Sojourners, America, and Commonweal magazines. Lopez's research interests focus primarily on the problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, gross violations of human rights, and ethics and the use of force.
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