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Adam Good

About Me

Adam Good has lent his quick ears and musicality to numerous Eastern European and Jazz projects. A graduate of Boston's Berklee College of Music with a concentration in jazz guitar, he has lived in New York City since 1996. As early as 1994, he developed a parallel interest in Eastern European folk, Greek, and Turkish classical music and is now well-known for his versatility in performing on a variety of stringed instruments including the acoustic bass, tambura, and Turkish ud and cümbüs. Adam plays in the New York area with groups such as Hazmat, Sukunet, Sideshow (Songs of Charles Ives), and Sheqer and around the United States with Harmonia (Traditional Crossroads CD). He has also toured the country with Macedonian kaval master Angele Dimovski and in 2002 released his Dances of Macedonia and the Balkans (Folksounds Records). Adam teaches privately and has taught Macedonian tambura at the EEFC's Balkan Music and Dance Camp.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/12/2005
Band Website: www.adamgood.com
Band Members: I play with these groups:

SALSABIL (Turkish Sufi)

LJUTI HORA (Balkan / Eastern European)

HAZMAT (Turkish Classical/Ottoman music)
w/ Phaedon Sinis - kemençe + kanun
Influences: Tanburi Cemil Bey, Udi Nevres Bey, Necati Çelik, Necdet Yashar, Niyazi Sayin, Derya Türkan, Fahrettin Cimenli, Taraf de Haidouks, Boban Markoviç, Ivo Papasov, Pece Atanasovski, Esma Redzepova, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Speed, Brad Shepik, Jim Black, Missy Elliott, Led Zepplin, Jimi Hendrix, Django Rheinhardt, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Keith Jarrett, Beethoven, Miles Davis, Turkish Classical (Ottoman music), Balkan, Eastern European, Bulgarian, Macdonian, Gypsy, Gypsy Jazz, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Chalgia, Izvorno music
Sounds Like: I grew up playing jazz, bebop and avan-garde stuff, then got very heavily into music of the Balkans. Now that path has led me to Turkish music...I'm loving so much the Turkish makam based music lately. I love to study it, study the repertoire and it's had a profound effect on how I listen to music and what my goals are for the future. I guess I can say my goals are to express my self to the best of my ability on my instrument, whether that's guitar or ud...just to express my inner sound, self and coverse with the audience.
Record Label: Chamsa Records www.chamsarecords.com

My Blog

adam's 1st Blog.

i've never blogged before. this is my first time blogging. here...wait a second...i'll blog something. "excuse me. do you know where i maybe be able to blog?" is that a blog? "do some more...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Dec 2005 20:07:00 GMT