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  • Genre: Americana / Freestyle / Jazz

    Location BROOKLYN, New York, Un

    Profile Views: 27936

    Last Login: 11/8/2012

    Member Since 6/10/2004

    Website www.brianprunka.com

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    About me: I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana for 10 years, from 1993-2003, soaking up the musical culture and performing around the city with lots of terrific jazz musicians. In the summer of 2003, I moved to New York to expand my musical horizons, especially studying oud and Arabic music with Simon Shaheen and Bassam Saba and performing with lots of middle-eastern influenced musicians... I formed my Near East River Ensemble to explore composing music that married jazz and Arabic music, working with traditional instrumentation. At present, I'm working on finding ways of bringing my experiences back to the jazz idiom. .. You can listen to more of my music on ..my website.. or at CDbaby, and maybe purchase a cd if you're so inclined..... .. --> --> --> CDBABY LINK for BRIAN PRUNKA: In Praise of Shadows --> .......... Listen and download at ....iTunes.... .... Check out some videos of me playing with ..Ravish Momin and Sam Bardfeld.. Me Playing with Simon Shaheen: .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

  • Members

    Personnel varies . . ... Musicians on the music samples are: Michael Jenner, Saxophone (Khaliji),....Rami El-Aasser.., percussion (Sephardim).. ..Leanne Darling.., viola (Sephardim) .. Tommy Sciple, bass (Annie Laurie, Valse, Aztec).. ..Mark DiFlorio.. Drums (Aztec, Annie Laurie, Valse).. Tarik Hassan, bass and David Mahoney, drums (All the things, I Fall . . . too Easily, Little Brown Book) .. I have been lucky enough to have had the privilege of playing with and learning from a lot of wonderful musicians over the years: Simon Lott, Ed Petersen, Michael Bates, Tim Green, Ravish Momin, Rex Gregory, Kenny Warren, Simon Shaheen, Erik Jekabson, Geoff Clapp, James Singleton, Ryan Kotler, Martin Krusche, Hart McNee, Peter Harris, Christopher Hoffman, Timothy Quigley, Tareq Abboushi, Amir ElSaffar, Zafer Tawil, Martin Urbach, Brian Coogan, Megan Weeder, Bridget Robbins, Scott Bourgeois, Mark Anderson, Jesse Lewis, Justin Peake, Sami Abu Shumays, Beth Bahia Cohen, Johnny Farraj, Danny Zanker, and many others.

  • Influences

    Tons of influences, of course: Ahmed Abdul-Malik, John Abercrombie, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Cannonball Adderly, Alice in Chains, Louis Armstrong, Asmahan, Farid El-Atrache, Omer Avital, J.S. Bach, Munir Bachir, Chet Baker, Beastie Boys, the Beatles, Beethoven, Tim Berne, Black Sabbath, Seamus Blake, Art Blakey, Anouar Brahem, Brahms, Uri Caine, Chopin, Charlie Christian, Ornette Coleman, Coltrane, Sam Cooke, Alice Cooper, Miles, the Doors, Dave Douglas, Ellington, Tatyos Efendi, Bill Evans. Cesaria Evora, Fairuz, Mahmoud Fadl, Sabah Fakri, Erik Friedlander, Bill Frisell, Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Henryk Górecki, Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Harris, Donny Hathaway, Joe Henderson, Jimi Hendrix, Joji Hirota, Johnny Hodges, Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, Freddie Hubbard, Iron & Wine, Chris Isaak, Keith Jarrett, Jethro Tull, Jobim, Robert Johnson, Marcel Khalife, Rima Khcheich, Lee Konitz, Philip Koutev, Um Kulthum, Led Zeppelin, Booker Little, Charles Lloyd, Joe Lovano, Bob Marley, Warne Marsh, Steve Masakowski, John McLaughlin, John Medeski, Brad Mehldau, Misha Mengelberg, Myra Melford, Pat Metheny, Ron Miles, Charles Mingus, Ben Monder, Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery, Paul Motian, Mozart, Mr. Bungle, Gerry Mulligan, Orchestra Baobob, Ozzy Osbourne, Palestrina, Charlie Parker, Parlaiment, Oscar Peterson, Astor Piazzola, Loren Pickford, Portishead, Jihad Racy, Radiohead, Josh Redman, Django Reinhardt, R.E.M., Marc Ribot, Amalia Rodrigues, Sonny Rollins, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Wadi El-Safi, Dino Saluzzi, Oumou Sangare, Schubert, Louis Sclavis, John Scofield, Simon Shaheen, Brad Shepik, Shankar, Wayne Shorter, Paul Simon, Elliott Smith, Riad al-Sounbati, Cat Stevens, John Surman, Faruk Tekbilek, Ali Farka Touré, Lennie Tristano, Mark Turner, Stanley Turrentine, U2, Van Halen, Sarah Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, Caetano Veloso, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Kenny Wheeler, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, John Zorn

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Bio:

About me: I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana for 10 years, from 1993-2003, soaking up the musical culture and performing around the city with lots of terrific jazz musicians. In the summer of 2003, I moved to New York to expand my musical horizons, especially studying oud and Arabic music with Simon Shaheen and Bassam Saba and performing with lots of middle-eastern influenced musicians.
I formed my Near East River Ensemble to explore composing music that married jazz and Arabic music, working with traditional instrumentation. At present, I'm working on finding ways of bringing my experiences back to the jazz idiom.
You can listen to more of my music on my website or at CDbaby, and maybe purchase a cd if you're so inclined.

.. --> --> --> CDBABY LINK for BRIAN PRUNKA: In Praise of Shadows --> Buy the CD

Listen and download at iTunes

Check out some videos of me playing with Ravish Momin and Sam Bardfeld Me Playing with Simon Shaheen:

Members:

Personnel varies . . .
Musicians on the music samples are: Michael Jenner, Saxophone (Khaliji),
Rami El-Aasser, percussion (Sephardim)
Leanne Darling, viola (Sephardim)
Tommy Sciple, bass (Annie Laurie, Valse, Aztec)
Mark DiFlorio Drums (Aztec, Annie Laurie, Valse)
Tarik Hassan, bass and David Mahoney, drums (All the things, I Fall . . . too Easily, Little Brown Book)
I have been lucky enough to have had the privilege of playing with and learning from a lot of wonderful musicians over the years: Simon Lott, Ed Petersen, Michael Bates, Tim Green, Ravish Momin, Rex Gregory, Kenny Warren, Simon Shaheen, Erik Jekabson, Geoff Clapp, James Singleton, Ryan Kotler, Martin Krusche, Hart McNee, Peter Harris, Christopher Hoffman, Timothy Quigley, Tareq Abboushi, Amir ElSaffar, Zafer Tawil, Martin Urbach, Brian Coogan, Megan Weeder, Bridget Robbins, Scott Bourgeois, Mark Anderson, Jesse Lewis, Justin Peake, Sami Abu Shumays, Beth Bahia Cohen, Johnny Farraj, Danny Zanker, and many others.

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