Summit is the third CD from, saxophonist, George Brooks. Produced by Brooks and world music visionary Zakir Hussain, Summit is the result of Brooks' twenty year love affair with Indian classical music and Jazz. This album features five of the world's [+]Summit is the third CD from, saxophonist, George Brooks. Produced by Brooks and world music visionary Zakir Hussain, Summit is the result of Brooks' twenty year love affair with Indian classical music and Jazz. This album features five of the world's greatest jazz and Indian musicians.
Summit is a real band and has performed in the US Europe and Asia.
Summit is...
Bandleader George Brooks cut his teeth in the bands of
Jaki Byard and Etta James. His 1996 debut CD, Lasting Impression, immediately thrust Brooks to the forefront of Indian jazz fusion and was soon followed a second CD, Night Spinner. Brooks is a long time collaborator of American minimalist Terry Riley and has performed
with most of India's top artists, including sarangi master Sultan Khan and flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia. In the western classical world he has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Dennis Russel Davies, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Zakir Hussain is truly a world music phenomenon. A past Grammy winner (with Mickey Hart) and a 2002 Grammy nominee (with John McLaughlin and their group Remember Shakti), he is the principle accompanist for all of India's most treasured concert artists including Shivkumar Sharma and Ali Akbar Khan. He has graced the world's most important stages and collaborated with jazz greats Charles Lloyd, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Sanders,Tito Puente and musical super-luminaries Van Morrison, George Harrison, Yo-Yo Ma and Ravi Shankar.
Trap drummer Steve Smith has a resume that stretches from Ahmad Jamal, Larry Coryell and Steps Ahead to Mariah Carey, Savage Garden and Journey. It is no surprise that he won Modern Drummer Magazine's #1 All Around Drummer award five years in a row and was voted one of the Top 25 Drummers of All Time in a recent Modern Drummer readers' poll.
Born of a Chilean mother and Pakistani father, guitarist Fareed Haque brings his natural eclecticism to a wide variety of jazz and classical artists
including Paquito D'Rivera, Cassandra Wilson, Kurt Elling, Lester Bowie, Arturo Sandoval, Nigel Kennedy, Edgar Meyer, Bob James, Dave Holland, Sting, Javon Jackson, Joe Henderson and Joe Zawinul.
On bass is Kai Eckhardt, a young virtuoso and already a veteran of global fusion music. Raised in Germany and Liberia,
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