Chaz Mortimer - ProfilesArchive

About Me

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I currently live in Portland, OR, where I perform regularly and teach at an alternative school. The drum has been everywhere in my life, and it's call is becoming clearer and clearer. Just as a dog has four legs but walks one path, my interests in music making, instrument building, working with the youth, and cooling out with family and friends are making for a unified push - the core of fire burns stronger with each day!

HERE ARE SOME SHEKERES I RECENTLY MADE:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/30/2007
Influences:

Baba Adetobi... Mi Padrino

Billy Hart...my Drumset teacher

Eric Chapin from Windhorse...

Coco Fusco

Pearl Primus

Sounds Like:

Carving an itotele, August 2008, and other Bata drum pics

Record Label: Unknown Major
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

"Oya - Call the Storm" @ Milagro Theater

If you're in the Portland area, you have two more weekends to get out and see the Milagro Theater's current production "Oya - Call the Storm." The sound-track of bata drumming and Afro-Cuban Song was...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:29:00 GMT

Kwame Ture - Ujama News

(I wrote this short article for Ujama News)...HOW DO WE KNOW WE MUST STRUGGLE?!? How do we know? Is that why we are here? huh...To listen again To see again To feel again Can we still ask the brother ...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:54:00 GMT