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sameer

www.sameergupta.com

About Me

Sameer Gupta is becoming an original musical voice in jazz, world, and fusion music. He has studied percussion for most of his life beginning in Tokyo, Japan 1985, and since then has consistently placed himself in many challenging musical environments. From bebop to avant-garde jazz, and European classical percussion to North Indian classical tabla playing; Sameer chooses to have a mature relationship with music from a perspective that now bridges several continents.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/11/2005
Band Website: sameergupta.com
Band Members: find my work w/ Marc Cary, VidyA, The Supplicants, Srinivas Reddy, Kosmic Renaissance, Parijat Desai Dance Company, Chitresh Das Dance Company, Ross Hammond, Mitch Marcus, KA, and many others...
Influences: Mingus, Miles, Trane, Taiwa
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Isotope Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

pending 30th B-day

30 is coming, and I just had a great b-day party in San Francisco. The WestCoast Chosen ones, you representin' and I'm loving it! Great music, dinner and drinks, and bonding with my most closest frie...
Posted by sameer on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:27:00 PST

how was JALC

Well, it's been a while. Lots of transition now between the west coast and the east. I feel like I'm almost barely keeping it all together. I've been reading a great book by Salman Rushdie called "The...
Posted by sameer on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:32:00 PST

riyaz...practice....sheddin'

it's all the same pulseit's about that time...it's about THAT timeKeep the drive steadyMake the feel of heavenand love the last beat of every phrase
Posted by sameer on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:57:00 PST

morning thoughts on life and death

I heard about two deaths recently, one was a suicide commited by someone I don't know, but they were a friends' roommate. The other was the same friends' cousin in a car accident. One such tragedy is ...
Posted by sameer on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:21:00 PST

pissed at the state of the union

who is not surprised by all this crap with the U.S. I am not, but I am also sorely disappointed that things have come this far, and underneath it all, I wonder if somehow I am responsible. For not doi...
Posted by sameer on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:12:00 PST

starting up the Blog

Alright I've decided to start using the Blog on this site. I figured someone might get a kick out of it. I've been in New York for a couple of months now (with a short break to the Bay Area for the...
Posted by sameer on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:25:00 PST