Jim Pugliese

TRIP ZIMBABWE BUY Jim Pugliese's Phase III Live @ Issue Project Room @ . PRESS For Phase III LiveJim Pugliese is a drummer, percussionist, composer and international recording artist on over eighty CD's of experimental, Classical, Jazz and Rock music. Jim's performing experience is diverse. As a freelance percussionist he is in much demand and has performed with The New York Philharmonic Horizon Series (guest artist), New York City Ballet and soloist or performer on numerous new music and jazz festivals in Europe, Japan and the USA, including Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfield and The Nicolsdorf, Salfeldon, and Tampere Jazz Festivals. He has toured and recorded with John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Bobby Previte, Anthony Coleman, David Shea, Elliot Sharp and The Philip Glass Ensemble.His newest project "Phase III" is a continuation of his ongoing quest to combine his diverse performing experiences into a single new sound with its base in rhythm. The music skirts and shifts along the edges of free improvisation, deep groove and New Music. The music reflects Jim's ongoing quest to explore the powerful, enlightening and spiritual secrets of drumming and is inspired by his recent association and work with Nii Tettey Tetteh, master musician from Ghana, with Milford Graves, learning drumming and healing through the heartbeat and his study of the spiritual songs of the Mbira Dzavadzimu from Zimbabwe.To interpret this music Jim has put together a band of some of the leading performers in the "Downtown New York City" scene. This includes:Drums, Christine BardBass, Kato HidekiBari and Alto sax, Michael Attias And one of Southern Italy's leading Guitarists, Marco Cappelli. Press Quotes:-from K Leander Williams - Time Out New York"A masterful percussionist who straddles uptown and downtown new music circles with ease , Pugliese leads his band Phase III that includes reedist Michael Attias, guitarist Marco Cappelli, bassist Kato Hideki and longtime drumming partner Christine Bard""Soultronix is the band in which much-sought-after drummer Jim Pugliese finally gets his place in the sun. The mix of hip electric textures and cool skewered pulses is rendered by an all-star cast of downtowners.------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------- from Kulturspiegel, Rostock, Germany: ".. respect to the rhythm was represented by two drumsets, played by band leader, Jim Pugliese, and the equally sovereign Christine Bard. How they both regularly tripped out of the groove, how they called up ghosts which they pushed away immediately after, was wonderfully nonchalant.""The music proved to be very serious ... a very refreshing concert."--------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------from la Repubblica, Italy"The Magic of Jim Pugliese brings Napoli closer to New York"-from Il Mattino, Italy"It is not often that we hear a percussionist read a score the way that a pianist reads Beethoven..." ..."it is only habit that keeps us from hearing music this way on the drums."----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- from Neue Luzerner Zeitung, Luzern, Switzerland:"... Soultronix powered the Boa Bar ....""... with lurching mechanics, the polyrhythmic instrumental howling of Soultronix drummed quite seductively under the skin..."---------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------