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Podcast #65 - Zack Albetta Mar 29, 2023

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Based in Atlanta, Zack is currently on the national tour of the hit Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud: The Life & Times of the Temptations and is also the co-host of Working Drummer Podcast.

Over his 20-year career, Zack has played many musical roles and built a reputation as a tasteful craftsman behind the drums. His professional path began on the rich and vibrant jazz scene in Kansas City where he attended graduate school.

He then spent five years freelancing in Los Angeles, playing frequently with organist Ty Bailie, vibraphonist Nick Mancini, and performing as a staff musician at Disneyland. He has called Atlanta home since 2016, where highlights have included Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics, The ATL Collective, and session work in his home studio.

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Podcast #64 - Peter Saleh Mar 12, 2023

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Peter Saleh is a multi-faceted percussionist, drummer, and teacher. Other notable performances include Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Brooklyn Metro Orchestra, Bay Atlantic Symphony, “Distant Worlds: Final Fantasy”, and a solo recital tour of Taiwan and Korea.

He was drummer/percussionist for the world premiere Productions of "Mystic Pizza", "The Nutty Professor", and "Mr Holland's Opus" as well as the regional premiere of "The Cher Show" at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine and he can also be heard on 2019's "Carols for a Cure, vol. 21" with the cast of Broadway's "Hamilton".

Peter recently celebrated 20 years as a member of the Exit 9 Percussion Group with nearly 500 performances, including a November 2021 tour in Ecuador as cultural envoy for the US State department.

Saleh’s published music is performed widely and his “A Percussionist’s Handbook” (Bachovich) has been called a "survival guide for today's percussionist" (Pablo Rieppi).

As a musician for dance, Saleh has presented collaborative work at the Aliey Citigroup Theater, The Joffrey School, and NJPAC. Since 2011, Peter has been an accompanist at The Juilliard School, and spent 5 years grooving with the Ailey Samba class percussion section.

Saleh founded and directed the Rutgers Youth Percussion Ensemble for 15 seasons, which received wide praise for its performances at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival, PAS/NYU Weekend of Percussion, and The Players Theater, and he continues to enthusiastically teach the next generation of drummers and percussionists.

Peter endorses Pearl/Adams Instruments and Sabian Cymbals and is the inventor of the patented “Switchboard” percussion table.

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Podcast #63 - Damon DueWhite Feb 25, 2023

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Damon DueWhite (drums, percussion) a native of Twin Oaks, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, learned to play the drums at the age of six from his father. At fourteen, he played in local bands in the Philadelphia and the New York Tri-State area. Prior to embarking on his first tour with the vocalist Roberta Flack in 1982, DueWhite, attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

DueWhite has performed and/or recorded with Vanessa Williams and The National Symphony Orchestra, Hugh Masekela, Oliver Lake, Regina Carter, Philip Harper, Rachelle Ferrell, Miriam Makeba, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Rubin, Carla Cook, Craig Harris, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jonathan Butler, George Duke, Roberta Flack, Alex Bugnon, Vivian Reed, Jennifer Holliday, Joe, Joan Osborne, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Chuck Berry, Vernon Reid, Nona Hendrix, Johnny Clyde Copland, Shemekia Copeland, Johnnie Johnson, Sarah Dash, Mick Taylor, Axelle Red and David Linx.

His Broadway credits are the first U.S. tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk", the national tour of the Tony Award-nominated blues revue “It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues.” His other work on Broadway includes the Tony Award-winning musical “The Color Purple” and “Holler If Ya Hear Me” based on the music of Tupac Shakur, and the Tony-nominated production of “Motown: The Musical.” The Tony Award-winning show “Hello Dolly.” Featuring Bette Midler and Tina Turner the Musical.

DueWhite has also performed in a number of music festivals around the world, including the Montreux Jazz Festival (France), North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Jazz in Tokyo Festival, Banlieues Bleues Festival(France), Australia’s Byron Bay Blues & Roots Festival, International Jazz Festival of Bern, Switzerland, Bastia Equinox Jazz Festival (Corsica), Montreal Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, JVC Jazz Festival, Long Beach Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Fort Meade Jazz Festival, and the Capital Jazz Festival. Along with his countless performances in the United States, DueWhite has toured Africa, Australia, China, South America, Japan, Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

He has also appeared on The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, BET Jazz Central, VH-1, C-Span, and WNBC New York Positively Black.

For more: https://www.moderndrummer.com/2016/10/beat-damon-duewhite-five-tips-starting/

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Podcast #62 - Roger Squitero Feb 11, 2023

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Internationally renowned Percussionist Roger Squitero was born in Washington, DC. He began playing congas in the sixties and was influenced by the unique mixture of music from that decade. Rock, Pop, R&B, Jazz, and Latin music were all influential in his musical growth. He moved to San Francisco in 1973, playing in the bay area with Salsa, Brazilian, and Jazz groups. In 1976 Roger joined the Jazz fusion band Nite Flyte and moved to New York City, where he became a successful studio and touring musician.

Since then, he has recorded on many Albums, Jingles, and Movie Soundtracks while performing with some of the world's greatest Pop, R&B, and Jazz artists. as well as working in many Broadway and off-Broadway productions. He created "Tribal Sage" with fellow percussionist Javier Diaz in 2009.

Their debut album, "Behind The Mask," was written, arranged, and produced by Roger and Javier and features different percussion styles in a World Music setting. Roger has written music for PBS and worked as a product development consultant for Latin Percussion INC. In 1991 he created Circle Rhythm, a workshop for musicians and non-musicians as a way of experiencing the excitement of a Drum Circle. These workshops have had success with small business groups, students, and large corporations. Roger lives in New York with his wife, Actress Saundra Santiago.

For more about Roger: http://www.rogersquitero.com

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Podcast #61 - Sam Merrick Jan 28, 2023

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Sam is a Brooklyn-based drummer currently holding the drum set chair at & Juliet on Broadway at the Sondheim Theater in New York City. Previously, he spent nearly five years and played over 1200 performances with the national tour of Hamilton: An American Musical.

Sam has also had the distinct pleasure of recording and/or performing with:

* Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings

* Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires

* Toots and the Maytals

* Saun & Starr (Daptone Records)

* Charlie Wilson (The Gap Band)

* That Handsome Devil (Rockband 2, Guitar Hero)

* People's Champs

* Kendra Morris (Colemine Records) and many more.

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Podcast #60 - Eric Brown Jan 15, 2023

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Eric Brown has subbed on Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar And Grill, and Ain’t Too Proud. He also held the drum chair on the recent revival of Smokey Joe’s Cafe.

His album “U MATTER” comprises 11 R&B/soul tracks featuring Eric on vocals and drums alongside a stellar group of musicians and singers whose fine performances augment his compositions. Stepping out from behind the kit, Eric delivers a broad palette of songs—from the dense, orchestrated “Shine” and the stripped-down title track to the striking “We Get Along” (with Grammy-winning bassist Paul Nowinski) and the complex “Still,” to “Go” (featuring Sara Devine on vocals and an epic guitar solo by Sherrod Barnes), “Far Away From Home,” the slow jam “Hidden Treasure,” “My Way,” the introspective “What Surrounds Me,” the airy, heartfelt “Letter,” and the church- inflected funky closer, “Dance.”

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Podcast #59 - Javier Diaz Dec 17, 2022

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Javier Diaz is a percussionist, educator, and composer active in New York City. Javier regularly plays with the American Symphony Orchestra, chamber music groups, and Latin Jazz/Afro-Cuban folkloric groups in the New York area. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, New York Pops, New York Perspectives Ensemble, John Adams’ Zankel Hall New Music Band, and the Hilliard Ensemble. He has been the principal percussionist in the Broadway productions of Guys and Dolls, Phil Collins’ Tarzan, The Wiz, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Rocky, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, Gloria Estefan’s On Your Feet!, and Once on This Island.

Javier’s studio credits include Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, Lin Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights, ECM's Tituli (with the Hilliard Ensemble) by Stephen Hartke, two albums with David Sanborn, including Time and the River (produced by Marcus Miller), award-winning films such as Tango Flush and Jesus Camp, and many TV and radio commercials. As an Afro-Cuban/Pop percussion specialist, Javier has appeared with: Sean Kingston, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, Patty La Belle, Lázaro Galarraga’s Afro-Cuban All Stars, percussionists Angel Luís Figueroa, Cándido Camero, Román Díaz, Pedro Martínez, The Pan-American Jazz Band, The Ethnix, Anette Aguilar’s Latin Jazz Group, Marta Topferova, Edmar Castañeda, Tribal Sage World Music duo project with multi-percussionist Roger Squitero, World Percussion group Kalunga, and the New York World Music Institute. An active educator,

Javier has taught concert percussion at El Sistema de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, the University of Connecticut, Rutgers University, Queens College (CUNY), New York University, and at his private teaching studio in New York City and New Jersey. He has also taught Afro-Cuban percussion seminars, classes, and clinics at the Peabody Institute, University of Southern California, Percussion Artists Workshops Los Angeles/New York, Los Angeles School District, The Juilliard School, Rutgers University, Queens College, New York University, Boston Conservatory, University of Minnesota, and Mannes School of Music in New York City.

Mr. Diaz currently teaches the Afro-Latin percussion survey at the Juilliard School and directs the Afro-Cuban Percussion Ensemble at Rutgers University. His most recent book on Afro-Cuban percussion, The Afro-Cuban Handbook, has become an instant classic of the percussion literature. As a composer, Javier has written chamber music, solo pieces, orchestral works, and electronic music.

He has been commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival, New York University, and the University of Southern California. An alumnus of El Sistema de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela and the Aspen Music Festival, Javier holds a BM from the University of Southern California, a MM from The Juilliard School, and a DMA from The Graduate Center (City University of New York).

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PODCAST #58 - Joshua Priest Dec 03, 2022

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Joshua Priest is the drummer for Broadway’s hit musical Beetlejuice.

Joshua has also subbed on several Broadway and off-Broadway musicals since moving to New York City, including:

* Ain’t Too Proud

* Matilda

* Mamma Mia

* A Night with Janis Joplin

* Groundhog Day

* King Kong

* Wicked

* Moulin Rouge

* Company

* Mrs. Doubtfire

* Off-Broadway:

* Kimberly Akimbo

* Smokey Joes Cafe

* Little Shop of Horrors

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PODCAST #57 - Emma Ford Nov 12, 2022

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Emma Ford’s passion for drumming began in her high school years and was later accepted as one of only two drummers into the prestigious Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Australia’s leading music University, where she gained her qualifications as a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance).

She has a breadth of experience across a number of musical genres, including Jazz, Classical, Latin, Pop, Rock and RnB. She has been a member of the all female drumming group ‘Drummer Queens’ and has performed at the Australian Ultimate Drummers Weekend, the Cricket World Cup, the Australian National Rugby League Grand Final, National Australia Day Awards at Parliament House and numerous private events.

After graduating University, Emma pursued her passion for musical theatre performing in professional productions in Sydney and Asia. Notably, she performed on drums for productions of ‘In The Heights’ at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney, followed by a sell-out season at the Sydney Opera House, as well as touring both nationally and internationally with ‘The Illusionists 1903’.

Her talents as a drummer and percussionist have been recognized through various awards in Australia, including the Jann Rutherford Memorial Mentorship Award from the Sydney Improvised Music Association’s Women in Jazz program in 2010 and the 2016 winner of the Rob Guest Endowment Theatre Musicians Award.

Since moving to New York in July 2018 at the age of 25, she quickly established herself in the Broadway scene and began working on Broadway, subbing on shows including Come From Away, Head Over Heels, Tootsie and Jagged Little Pill. She has also performed numerous gigs, cabarets and gala’s alongside talents such as Stephen Schwartz, Ben Vereen, Paul Shaffer, Ariana DeBose, John Cameron Mitchell and has undertaken accompaniment work for Broadway productions including Mean Girls and Magic Mike.

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Broadway Shutdown, Emma returned to Australia in 2020. In this time, she played drums for Pippin, Hamilton and Jagged Little Pill, before coming back to NYC in 2022 to become the drummer for Paradise Square on Broadway.

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PODCAST #56 - Steve Bartosik Oct 29, 2022

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Steve Bartosik has had the good fortune to have held the drum chair on 16 Broadway shows, 14 Off-Broadway productions and an additional 7 National Tours.

Unfortunately, none of them lasted very long; but a nice collection none-the-less for someone whose professional drumming life began with playing polkas in rural Pennsylvania.

https://lehighgoblet.com/why-i-remain-close-to-lehigh-steve-bartosik/

https://themillermachine.com/blogs/setups/bright-star-tour-steve-bartosik