Jaimeo Brown “Transcendence”
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/24/2015
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location
The Falcon
Categories
“….to see them now (Transcendence) would give you a piece of history: twenty years from now, jazz fans will be bragging that they saw this show even if they didn’t.” – Lucid Culture
Featuring Jaleel Shaw/Sax and Chris Sholar/Guitar
Percussionist, Jaimeo Brown’s (pronounced jah-mayo) first offer after graduating from the vaunted jazz program at William Paterson University, was to take the drum chair for the Charles Mingus Big Band! He is emerging as one of the preeminent drummers on the new creative music scene and the leader of the a new circle of young NYC musicians grounded in the African-American roots of their music.
He has performed with a wide range of musicians including Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, Q-Tip, Carl Craig, Kenny Garrett, Geri Allen, Greg Osby,Joe Locke Pharoah Sanders and Bobby Hutcherson, with whom he established his national reputation. According to Hutcherson “Jaimeo is the kind of player, who allows me to play what I hear with no compromises,” continuing he said, “His value as an artist lies as much in his personality and respectful nature as it does in his considerable talent as a percussionist.”
In addition to onstage work, Jaimeo has contributed program material for a PBS original production of Ralph Ellison’s “King of The Bingo Game” and the acclaimed documentary “Twenty Feet From Stardom”. Jaimeo was recently selected to be a TEDx speaker in which he lectured on “What Will The Year 2113 Sound Like?”
TRANSCENDENCE is a project that expresses Jaimeo’s experiences living in NYC, his worldview and his own spiritual awakening. Inspired by the Gee’s Bend spirituals of Alabama, he wanted to bring light to their music and artwork. “I focused on the music of the Gee’s Bend community and the Black spiritual as the root of the material because of its raw unfeigned expression,” said Brown. “Hope is in abundance in these spirituals.” The innovative album weaves a tapestry of African-American spirituals, along with East Indian concepts, electronic textures, acoustic jazz and blues.
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