This episode is sponsored by Dream Cymbals.

This week’s guest is Gabriel Globus-Hoenich. Gabriel blends a multitude of musical influences together in his work as a performer and educator. A Montreal native, Gabriel is now based in New York City where his career continues to reflect a deep love for the worlds of jazz, classical music, and world music. Gabriel has performed on drumset and percussion with a wide variety of artists including Morgan James, Jim James, Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Omara Portuondo, Telmary Diaz, Roberto Fonseca, Tirso Duarte, Steve Hackman, Tessa Lark, the Philly Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, among others. He collaborates frequently with Teddy Abrams and the Sixth Floor Trio, serving as principal percussionist and education director at the trio’s chamber music festival, GardenMusic, in South Miami. An active composer and arranger, Gabriel has written orchestral arrangements for Grammy-award winners Sam Bush, Cory Henry, and Sara Jarosz, as well as Achilles Liarmakopolous of the Canadian Brass, Grammy nominated Tiempo Libre, and the Louisville Orchestra. In 2018, Gabriel performed Julia Wolfe's percussion concerto riSE and fLY with Teddy Abrams and the Louisville Orchestra with the composer present. In 2019, Gabriel performed chamber music with Daniil Trifonov and Sergei Babayan to a sold out crowd at Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall.

In 2017 Gabriel founded People of Earth, a 15 person Latin fusion group filled with some of NYC's best musicians representing a myriad of countries. People of Earth has performed at Brooklyn Bowl, Rockwood Music Hall and other top NYC venues. For more information visit www.peopleofearthmusic.com

In addition to his work in the orchestral and jazz music worlds, Gabriel has completed extensive world percussion studies having studied Afro-Brazilian percussion in Salvador, Bahia with Gabi Guedes and Mario Pam, as well as Cuban percussion with Girardo Piloto, Rociel Riveron, and Adonis Panter.

Gabriel continues to work as a teaching artist for the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, Philadelphia Orchestra, 92nd Street Y, and Marquis Studios. He was formerly a teaching artist with Play On Philly! as well as musician-in-residence at The Please Touch Museum. He is a co-founder of PlasticBand, a community drumming group based in Harlem, New York and received a Carnegie Hall NeON Arts Grant to build this program. He is a 2008 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Don Liuzzi and Robert van Sice.

R.I.P.

The death has been announced of the extraordinary timpanist and percussionist Charles Fullbrook at age 72. -Article

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Ben O’Brien Smith. Ben is a Musician, photographer, videographer, and all around social media geek. He has fused these elements into the services that Cadence Independent Media provides. Having spent nearly seven years working with the top brands and retailers within the musical instrument market as well as some of the greatest musicians of all time, He has developed a methodology and a means of execution for marketing individuals and products both inside and outside of the social sphere. He is also the co-host of the Sounds Like a Drum video series on YouTube.

Happy Birthday to Brevan Hampden. Born in New York City in 1985, Brevan was born instantly a member of a high-level musical family; his father Ivan, who has toured with Luther Vandross, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Lopez, Roberta Flack, Grady Tate, and Ashford & Simpson, and his mother Brenda, who has performed on Broadway, with Dizzy Gillespie, Angie Bofill, Marian Anderson, and Jazzmobile.

After moving to Durham, NC in 1988, Brevan began showing signs of talent in music from age 7. He began playing percussion in church with his mother and brother at age 9. Soon after, he began playing pick up gigs and at other churches in the Raleigh/Durham area. His older brother Brian moved to North Carolina when Brevan was 9, and introduced him to the world of Latin and World Percussion. Brevan learned how to read music in middle school, playing in concert band and jazz band, and participated in the marching band once moving on to high school. Although there were no high school programs that catered to Latin percussion or jazz/popular music in general, Brevan continued his study of percussion, by listening to and being influenced by percussionists Ray Barretto, Mongo Santamaria, Carlos “Patato” Valdes, Tata Guines, Changuito, Giovanni Hidalgo, Angel “Cachete” Maldonado, Tito Puente, Miguel “Anga” Diaz, Tomas “El Panga” Ramos and other artists such as Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Kool and the Gang, Parliament, Daryl “Munyungo” Jackson, Leon “Ndugu” Chancelor, Steve Kroon, Roger Squitero, Sheila E. and Luis Conte.

Twice, during his high school years, Brevan attended the Berklee World Percussion Festival in Boston, where he studied with Giovanni Hidalgo, Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez, Eguie Castrillo, and Ernesto Diaz. This helped further his knowledge of percussion, and of music in general, which, upon his return to North Carolina allowed him to continue performing locally, with bands such as Junk in the Trunk, Samecumba, Carnavalito, and the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) Jazz Ensemble, with whom his other brother, Iajhi, was performing at the time.

Gig Alerts

Snarky Puppy is going on tour and opening for Steely Dan.

Educational Spotlight

Conga Chops has a new video up to help you learn how to take a conga solo from square one with their new Conga Soloing 101 Course! The video below is a short preview of Lesson 7 - Building Solo Phrases, from their brand new Conga Soloing 101 Course on the website.

Badges for PASIC 2022 are now available for purchase!

They also announced who will be performing for the evening concerts.

Iconic Recording

This week’s iconic recording was picked by Gabriel. It is called “Confiésale” by Alexander Abreu Y Havana D’Primera from the ‘Live’ album (En Directo).

Music News

The New York State COVID-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program was created to provide flexible grant assistance to currently viable small businesses, micro-businesses and for-profit independent arts and cultural organizations including independent arts contractors in the State of New York who have experienced economic hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. -Article

Damon will be speaking at the DIY Musician Conference in Austin, TX from August 26-28 (Damon’s birthday is the 28th). He will also be doing a live podcast interview with a very special guest.

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Gabriel Globus-Hoenich Interview

Gabriel is from Montreal but moved to Boston.

Gabriel’s dad plays and teaches bassoon and piano. His mom plays flute and piano.

Gabriel attended the pre-college program at NEC on Saturdays for jazz and the youth symphony on Sunday.

Gabriel brings up the Modern Drummer festival with Tony Royster Jr.

Damon and Gabriel talk about playing live vs. putting up videos from your practice space for likes on social media.

They also talk about the unique demands of being a percussionist vs. other instrumentalists.

Gabriel attended Curtis Institute of Music.

Shout-out to Don Liuzzi and friend of the show, Robert Van Sice.

Gabriel talks about some of the benefits of studying at Curtis. Not only his professors, but also his classmates.

Gabriel talks about playing drumset in philly, and who helped him out as well as his travels to Hawaii.

Gabriel found his strength in teaching.

This is one of the nights described at Guantanamera in NYC.

Gabriel talks about the Philly scene outside of Curtis.

Gabriel explains how he started the People of Earth ensemble after returning from Banff.

Gabriel talks about expanding performance opportunities for P.O.E. and collaborations and commissions.

Damon brings up the transcriptions that Gabriel has done for himself or other people.

Gabriel talks about some of his favorite transcriptions, like THIS ONE.

Gabriel talks about the Michael Spiro book, “The Language of the Masters” transcriptions.

Damon brings up one of the playlists put together by Marcos Lopez.

Damon brings up this one recording from Kip Hanrahan. It has Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez and Robby Ameen on drums, Milton Cardona on congas and Paoli Mejias and Richie Flores trading quinto solos. The song is called, “The Hasheater at the Gates of the Summer City”.

Gabriel brings up two of his favorite Paoli solos. “Fragment” and an Eddie Palmieri song called, “Dona Teri”.

The iconic recording is the Haciendo Historia (Live) album. Gabriel mentions this video and song below with (Friend of the show) Rodney Barreto.

Gabriel worked with Morgan James through Teddy Abrams.

Gabriel’s vice is collecting CDs and also instruments.

Damon and Gabriel talk about a couple of Dan Charnas books. “The Big Payback” and “Dilla Time”. This is THE PLAYLIST that accompanies the “Dilla Time” book.

Shout-out to Gary Spelissey, Gary Feldman, Craig McNutt, Don Liuzzi, Rolando Morales-Matos, Scott Robinson, Byron Landham, Doug Hirlinger, Dan Monaghan, Rodney Green, Rociel Riveron, Rodney Barreto, Adonis Panter Calderon, and Giraldo Piloto among others.