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Jim Pugliese

 
Artist: Jim Pugliese
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Influenced By:

Harry Partch, Raymond DesRoches, Dean Drummond

Formal Connection With:

EasSide Percussion, Philip Glass, Lee Hyla, John Zorn, Christine Bard, Anthony Coleman, John Cage, Marc Ribot, David Shea, Carlos Chávez
  • Born: 1952, Newark, NJ
  • Active: '70s, '80s, '90s
  • Genres: Avant-Garde
  • Instrument: Percussion

Biography

Born in Newark, NJ, in 1952, percussionist Jim Pugliese was influenced by R&B while growing up. Later, he studied percussion with Raymond Des Roches, and performed new music with composers John Cage, Philip Glass (including a '90s performance on PBS' Sessions at West 54th Street), and Carlos Chavez, to name a few. Pugliese studied and performed microtonal music, and spent 12 years playing in Dean Drummond's Newband, as well as performing in the Harry Partch Ensemble. During this time, Pugliese also became interested in Afro-Cuban music, and began studying with master drummer Pablo Landrum. Since the mid-'80s, Pugliese has lived in N.Y.C., improvising and recording with many of the downtown jazz and new music scene standouts, such as John Zorn and Anthony Coleman. His music has been performed all over the city at venues like the Roulette, the Knitting Factory, and the Lincoln Center Outdoor Festival. He has toured the U.S., Europe, and Japan appearing at the FIMAV, Bang on a Can, Nicolsdorf Jazz, and other festivals, and has received several Meet the Composer grants. At the end of 1997, the Avant label released the first CD by EasSide Percussion. Christine Bard and Michael Evans -- ESP's other two members -- also play in Pugliese's group Soultronix. In 1998, Pugliese was selected as Artist in Residence at Harvestworks in N.Y.C. where he recorded his solo CD Sonic Soul. ~ Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide
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Jim Pugliese

Jim Pugliese live at Jazz Festival in Saaalfelden, 2009. Photo by Davide Leonardi.
Background information
Born 1952 (age 56–57)
Origin Newark
Genre(s) Jazz, funk, rock
Occupation(s) Composer
Instrument(s) Drums

Jim Pugliese (born James Pugliese in Newark, New Jersey, 1952) is an American percussionist, drummer, composer and international recording artist on over seventy five CDs of experimental, 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. Jim has recorded and or performed with John Cage, Kent Nagano and Philip Glass among others. For the last fifteen years, while living in the East Village of New York City, Jim has been performing and recording with many of downtown New York’s most prominent composer/improvisers including John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins and Anthony Coleman. His newest projects “Phase III” and” Italian Doc Remix” are a continuation of his ongoing quest to combine his diverse performing experiences into a single new sound with its base in rhythm and to further enhance cultural exchange through music. His music skirts and shifts along the edges of free improvisation, jazz and deep groove. 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.

CDs

DISCOGRAPHY

"Hydrogen Jukebox" Philip Glass, Nonesuch Records (1993)

"Slate" Michael Torke, Decca (xylophone soloist with London Sinfonietta) Kent Nagano, conductor (1990)

"Walter Thomson Big Band" Ottava Records (1990)

"The Walter Thomson Orchestra" Nine Winds (1998)

"Red Shift" Lois Vierk, Ear Rational Records (1990)

"River Beneath The River" Lois Vierk, Tzadik(2000)

"Smut" David Soldier, Avant (1994)

"Construction and Demolition" Rough Assemblage, Avant (featured percussionist) (1995)

"Being And Time" Norman Yamada, Tzadik (1998)

"Rise Up!" Kitty Brazelton, (1994)

"Ribbons of Euphoria" David Watson, Midwest 9 (New Zealand) (1997)

"Skirl" David Watson, Avant (1999)

"Tunnel-Funnel", Daniel Goode; Avant (1998)

"Burt Bacharach, Great Jewish Music" Tzadik (1997)

"Marc Bolan, Great Jewish Music" Eszter Balint, Tzadik (1998)

"Burnt Ivorie and Loose Wires" Annie Gosfield, Tzadik (1998)

"Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery" Annie Gosfield, Tzadik (2001)

"Syndakit" Elliott Sharp, Zoar(1999)

"Radiolaria" Elliott Sharp, Zoar (2002)

"Burst Blowout" Christina Wheeler (2000)

"Photographs" Eric Qin, Tzadik (2002)

"Dance of Destruction" Cat Martino (2003)

"Gypsy Killer" Sanda Weigl, Knitting Factory Works (2002)

"Dimly Lit" Doug Wieselman, Tzadik(2003)

With EasSide Percussion:

"State of the Union", Elliott Sharp, Atavistic (1996)

"EasSide Percussion", Avant (1997)

With Marc Ribot:

Shrek Avant, (1994)

"Fred Frith Marc Ribot" Sub Rosa (1994)

Yo! I Killed Your God Tzadik (1999)

With N.J. Percussion Ensemble:

"Ringing Changes" Charles Wuorinen, Nonesuch Records (1972)

"Percussion Music" Nonesuch Records (Grammy nomination) (1974)

"Percussion Symphony" Charles Wuorinen, Nonesuch Records (1978)

"The Abongo" John Becker, New World Records (1979)

With Newband and Harry Partch Ensemble:

"Newband" Mode Records (1988)

"Newband II" Mode Records (1994)

With John Zorn:

"Koroshi No Blues" Toshiba-EMI, (1992)

"Cobra" Knitting Factory Works, (1994)

"Filmworks ll" Toys Factory, (1995)

"Filmworks IV", (1996)

"Redbird" Tzadik, (1995) soloist on Dark River

"Duras" Tzadik, (1997)

"IAO" Tzadik, (2002)

With Lee Hyla:

"Rhonda Rider" CRI (1988)

"In Double Light" Avant (1993)

With Anthony Coleman:

"Disco By Night" Avant, (1993)

"A Confederacy Of Dances" Einstein Records, (1992)

"Knitting Factory At The Whitney Museum" Knitting Factory Works, (1995)

"Selfhaters" Tzadik, (1996)

"The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same", Selfhaters, Tzadik (1998)

"September Song" Sony, (1997)

"With Every Breath The Music of Shabbat" Knitting Factory Works (2000)

With David Shea:

"Shock Corridor" Avant, (1992)

"Prisoner" Sub-Rosa, (1994)

"Hsi-Yu Chi" Tzadik, (1995)

"The Tower Of Mirrors" Sub Rosa (1995)

"Satyricon" Sub Rosa (1997) Opening and Eros recorded and engineered by Jim Pugliese

"Classical Works" Tzadik, (1998)

"Mort Aux Vaches" Staalplaat, (1999)

With Zeena Parkins:

"Mouth=Maul=Betrayer" Tzadik (1996)

"Pan-Acoustican" Tzadik (1999)

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