EQUIPMENT
Yamaha
Maple Custom (Jazz series, wood finish)
14" x 5 1/2" Roy Haynes signature
snare drum.
Yamaha Maple Custom 12" x 10" mounted tom.
Yamaha Maple Custom 14" x 14" floor tom.
Yamaha Maple Custom 18" x 14" bass drum.
Groove
Percussion (Hip - Gig series, wood finish)
Groove Percussion 5" x 12" snare drum.
Groove Percussion 10" x 7" mounted tom.
Groove Percussion 13" x 13" floor tom.
Groove Percussion 16" x 16" bass drum
Cymbals and
accessories
Grand Master -
Turkish, hand hammered 14" Hi-Hats.
Istanbul (Mehmet hand made) - Mel Lewis 12" ride.
Sabian - Jack deJohnette, Mini Bell 22" ride.
Vic Firth - Peter Erskine sticks
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ESSENTIAL LISTENING |
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John Coltrane quartet, Miles Davis quintet, Oscar Peterson trio, Keith Jarret trio, Maria Schneider big band, Ken Werner trio, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, Bela Bartok, Antonin Dvorak, Serge Rachmaninoff, Nikolay Medtner, Francis Poulenc, Gustav Malher, Alexander Scriabin, Dmitry Shostakovich, Gustav Holst, Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar, William Walton, Charles Ives, Samuel Barber. |
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ESSENTIAL READING |
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John Dewey, Allan Watts, Erich Fromm, A.H Maslow, C.S Lewis, Thomas Merton, Michael Novak, Fritjof Capra, Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russel, Albert Camus, Denis Miller, Bill Maher |
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To New York's incredable and respected musicians ... Roseanna Vitro, Allen Farnham, Ratzo Harris, Mark Soskin, Chieli Minucci, Don Braden, Bob Bowen, David Budway, Carl Clements ... thank you all for believing in me through the years and making me the musician i am ! ! |
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My buddies back home - Karl Peters, Sanjay Divecha, Harmeet Manseta, Madhav Chari, Amit Heri, Sonia Saigal ...... its always a blast playing with yall. Ok , so have you guys checked out myspace.com ? If you havent i think you should . The site is pretty cool. Join me there at http://www.myspace.com/adriandsouza |
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