Jerry Leake Marches to a Different Drummer
Posted on 16. Jun, 2010 by Hector Aviles in Blog
This is a different perspective of what we commonly call a “percusionist”. Here is another interesting article by Latino Music Cafe partner World Music News Wire on master percusionist Jerry Leake.
Below is part of the article, which may redefine for you the concept of a percusionist. If you like what you read below, you can jump to the full article at the link below.
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The Layers of Master Percussionist Jerry Leake Emerge on CUBIST
Jerry Leake produced his new album like a mad rhythm scientist. He was methodic and resourceful, precisely mixing and pouring one ingredient into the next. It could have ended in disaster with sonic fragments left strewn about haplessly…but it did not. Cubist comes to life with mathematical precision and undeniable beauty where each composition resounds its exclusive musical “soul”. Cubist reflects and retracts not only music but also people and their experiences. “You can almost feel the characters living inside some of these creations,” Leake said of his latest work.
Jerry Leake
Imagine an “exotic” secret agent as he sprints through the Technicolor jungles of India, fueled by driving rock grooves rotating around a 10-beat tabla pattern. Picture the neon lights and gyration of dancers at nightclubs in the Caribbean: merengue grooves mingle with African drums, fiery piano duels percolating congas. Or, a modern jazz band swinging inside African drums, bells and shakers.
Like the Big Bang itself, initiation for Cubist came from within and outside of its benevolent explosion, conveyed in the life cycle of the Red Giant star called Aldeberan-the first track on the disc. Sensing complementary “big” orchestral sounds were necessary to tell the epic story of stellar life and death, Leake incorporated large concert bass drums, timpani, chimes and bells, plus immense tam tam and gongs. Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music provided an ample laboratory where, alone, story-teller and scientist emerged, mixing layers of sound to destroy the great star in both climax and rebirth.
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You can read the rest of this article directly at the link HERE.
Other Partnership Blogs by World Music News Wire and Latino Music Cafe:
Alex Cuba’s Agua del Pozo Breaks the Language Barrier
Toto La Momposina; Original Cumbia Music for all Latinos
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