CINDY BLACKMAN-SANTANA: Jazz Drumming Clinic Performance; Lenny Kravitz's Percussive Backbone!
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2011
- HELLO THERE COMMITTED MUSIC FANS, FOLLOWERS & ARTISTS OUT THERE!
Cindy's brand new album, "Give the Drummer Some" is out now! You can order it directly from the artist by clicking the URL below:
cindyblackmansantana.com/new-...
Honored directly from her website is Cindy's Story, condensed b/c of UA-cam's 5,000 character limit. Her full biography can be found at the link below:
"Cindy Blackman Santana is a virtuoso drummer whose artistry spans the realms of jazz and rock. As a bandleader and as a musician, Cindy is a sound innovator with a passion for pushing creative boundaries and exploring movement and change. She is as known for the nuances and colors she brings to her beats and fills as she is for the sheer power of her soulful playing. “Some drummers act, some react. Some keep time, others create it. Cindy Blackman Santana is among the few who can,” writes Mike Zwerin of the International Herald Tribune.
Cindy has been creating magnificent musical time and space since the beginning of her career as a busking street performer in New York City in the ’80s through the present day, touring the globe and making albums at the top of her game-including the critically acclaimed Another Lifetime (2010). In addition to collaborating onstage and in-studio with her own group-also known as Another Lifetime-she has toured and recorded with artists including Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, Bill Laswell, Joss Stone, Joe Henderson, Buckethead, Don Pullen, Hugh Masakela, and Angela Bofill. From 1992 to 2007 & 2014/2015, she was the drummer in Lenny Kravitz’s band, performing through multiple world tours and hit albums. In 2010, she was part of the all-star line-up performing “Bitches Brew,” a tribute to Miles Davis’ seminal album staged at the San Francisco Jazz Festival and NYC Winter JazzFest.
“I think of playing as controlled freedom, and in jazz, especially, that’s exactly what you have. I love it,” says Cindy. “You know the forms of the songs, but you have the freedom to stretch over them. You want the music to grow and breathe, and you want to invite creativity from all the musicians. As you’re going along, you can change the color, the feel, the mood in different ways, or go off the chart and open it up to something new. Controlled freedom is an incredible discipline requiring a lot of focus. Improvisation like that is art in its highest form.”
Electricity onstage generated chemistry offstage-Carlos proposed to Cindy during a July 2010 concert, and they married in December. Looking ahead, they will collaborate artistically as well, on projects that will no doubt reflect their shared passion for improvisation, and belief in the transcendent nature of music. “To me, music is completely spiritual, it’s the way you connect with your higher self, with the universe,” says Cindy.
On her own, Cindy is continuing to develop the heady jazz-rock fusion that she drives so powerfully on 2010’s Another Lifetime. The tour de force album is a tribute to her mentor, the legendary drummer Tony Williams, and features reimagining’s of eight songs from his seminal ’70s group Lifetime, as well as three original tracks by Cindy.
“I loved everything about Tony’s playing. He changed the sound of music several times with different tunings and configurations, and innovated with every limb,” says Cindy, who first met Williams in her teens when he did a clinic at the drum shop near her home in Connecticut.
Cindy remembers first asking for drums when she was three years old-“My mom says I was born hitting things and making rhythms,” she says. She graduated from a toy drum kit at age 7 to her first professional set at age 13, and went on to play in the jazz band, concert band, and orchestra in high school.
Her recording career began in the late ’80s, and she has released albums with an acoustic ensemble-the Cindy Blackman Quartet-as well as with her electric outfit. One she cites as among her favorites is 2000’s Works On Canvas. “I like where the band was at that point, our sound was becoming really cohesive,” she says. The review in Jazz Times noted that the album “proceeds like an impressionistic suite in which she not only functions as the main rhythmic engine of the music, but also a magnificent colorist…Works on Canvas is an amazing portrait of one of this generation's most colorful drummers.”
Cindy is currently featured on the Santana/Isley Brothers release Power of Peace, featuring the song “I Remember” which she wrote and sings. In 2016, she connected with: Narada Michael Walden (Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin) & together the two have been working on new material. Cindy Blackman Santana will release the new single titled “Fun Party Splash” on Narada Michael Walden’s Tarpan Records in the summer of 2017, and continues to build a body of work and artistic legacy that make her one of the finest drummers, and recording artists of this or any generation.
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Santana is A VERY LUCKY MAN 😍🎶✨
She was tearin up those drums
i loved it
it's good to see so much energy and attitude on drums,and her taste about cymbals and snare sounds
18 nov 1959 born la baterista Cindy Blackman uno de los mejores de esta época.
This is so insanely rad.
That move at 1:44 is one that is all too familiar to me when the venue you're at doesn't have a carpet for the drum riser.
yes!!! guh... when venues don't have at least a drum rug in place for bands, we tend to tell the tour manager to cut that one off of the "venues to return again" list, for sure!!!! :)
Thanks for sharing this Chris. What's your favorite drumming technique so far?
so true my friend!
Forget her hands, just watch her feet. Iuwawa!!!!!!
how are you doing with mastering your drumkit this year SD101?
o dislikes and it better stay that way or ima find you
She is amazingly fast, but this solo is not at all enjoyable to listen to in my opinion. it is not musical at all.
Yeah she’s trained as a jazz drummer and this one is more of a free-form solo. It doesn’t breathe as well as it could’ve but she’s got some drum rug issues with her high-hats going on to so it’s been one of the examples of perseverance and keeping the idea/beat going, tempo-wise.