Bolero Project
Encyclopedia
Bolero Project is an ArtistShare
recording project led by Latin singer Leonardo Granados and jazz pianist Edward Simon.
has been well known for their "fan funded" projects which expose the creative process of music making to fans. "Bolero Project" is an appreciation of boleros, a sensual dance music widespread in South America. The project is dedicated to Simon's father who introduced the music to him and Granados' mother as a special gift. All the boleros are interpreted into jazz/improvisation style with Simon providing arrangements and Granados providing vocal interpretations. Along with recorded music, there are exclusive materials such as lyrics to sing along, a short lecture on the history of boleros provided by the artists, video/audio updates, photos, downloads, etc.
There are different participation levels which fans can select from. As the level gets higher, fans can get involved in the project more. Any higher participation level from Bronze, participants can receive credit listing on a personalized and autographed CD. Silver level provides Bronze level contents, a pre-loaded iPod with the artists' favorite music and a VIP ticket to their concert. Gold level offers Bronze level content, a pre-loaded iPod with artists' favorite music, free access to any of Granados' performances for one year, a personal thank you letter from the artists. Executive Producer level offers Gold level contents, and an exclusive studio recording dedicated for the participant.
The CD is scheduled to be released in July 2009.
A Venezuelan singer and percussionist based in New York
. He was born into a music-oriented family in San Cristóbal, Venezuela
. He has studied at the Pedro Antonio Ríos Reina School of Music, founded by his father. He has worked with artists such as flutist Marco Granados, Paquito D'Rivera
, Simón Díaz
, Edward Simon, Raul Jaurena, Tito Castro, Katie Viqueira, Pablo Ziegler
, etc.
His voice has been recognized by various bands and theaters. He has been featured in Marco Granados' Un Mundo Ensemble and David Oquendo's Latin Jazz. He also has been one of lead singers for the 2004 ACE Award Winner off-off Broadway production "Tiempo de Tango". As a tango singer, he has performed in Ástor Piazzolla
's María de Buenos Aires
and Lincoln Center Institute's Camerata Latina.
Edward Simon
A Venezuelan jazz pianist who is well-received by critics. Simon has performed with numerous jazz masters such as Herbie Mann
, Paquito D'Rivera
, Bobby Hutcherson
, Bobby Watson
, Terence Blanchard
, Don Byron
, etc. Performing with Paquito D'Rivera
influenced him to integrate his native music into his style. He has recorded nine albums as a leader. He has involved in more than 40 albums. His work has been recognized by various organizations such as Chamber Music America and the New York Foundation for the Arts
.
New York Times describes, "Mr. Simon's touch, light and warm, allows for his music to drift calmly, taking its time to get to where it has to go."
Scott Colley
His forceful lines, impeccable articulation, assured sense of swing and sensitive support have made Scott Colley
the bassist of choice for such jazz legends as Jim Hall
, Andrew Hill
and Herbie Hancock
. Colley's remarkably empathetic skills, strong melodic penchant and improvisational daring have also served him well in groups led by colleagues Chris Potter
, Greg Osby
, David Binney
and Adam Rogers
.
Adam Cruz
A New York City native gifted drummer in both jazz and Latin styles. His musicality, versatility and technical skill have brought him wide recognition. Cruz has been featured on nearly 40 recordings. He has recorded and toured with The Mingus Big Band
, David Sánchez Quintet, Leon Parker Band, Chick Corea
's Origin Sextet, Danilo Perez
, and has also performed with such artists as Mongo Santamaría
, Airto Moreira
, Herbie Mann
and McCoy Tyner
.
ArtistShare
ArtistShare is a crowdfunding website and labelWharton Innovation and Entrepreneurship Consulted on 10/12/2011 for musicians and other creative artists which allows them to fund their projects utilizing a "fan-funding" model to allow the general public to directly finance, watch the creative...
recording project led by Latin singer Leonardo Granados and jazz pianist Edward Simon.
ArtistShare Project - Bolero Project
ArtistShareArtistShare
ArtistShare is a crowdfunding website and labelWharton Innovation and Entrepreneurship Consulted on 10/12/2011 for musicians and other creative artists which allows them to fund their projects utilizing a "fan-funding" model to allow the general public to directly finance, watch the creative...
has been well known for their "fan funded" projects which expose the creative process of music making to fans. "Bolero Project" is an appreciation of boleros, a sensual dance music widespread in South America. The project is dedicated to Simon's father who introduced the music to him and Granados' mother as a special gift. All the boleros are interpreted into jazz/improvisation style with Simon providing arrangements and Granados providing vocal interpretations. Along with recorded music, there are exclusive materials such as lyrics to sing along, a short lecture on the history of boleros provided by the artists, video/audio updates, photos, downloads, etc.
There are different participation levels which fans can select from. As the level gets higher, fans can get involved in the project more. Any higher participation level from Bronze, participants can receive credit listing on a personalized and autographed CD. Silver level provides Bronze level contents, a pre-loaded iPod with the artists' favorite music and a VIP ticket to their concert. Gold level offers Bronze level content, a pre-loaded iPod with artists' favorite music, free access to any of Granados' performances for one year, a personal thank you letter from the artists. Executive Producer level offers Gold level contents, and an exclusive studio recording dedicated for the participant.
The CD is scheduled to be released in July 2009.
Band members
Leonardo GranadosA Venezuelan singer and percussionist based in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. He was born into a music-oriented family in San Cristóbal, Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
. He has studied at the Pedro Antonio Ríos Reina School of Music, founded by his father. He has worked with artists such as flutist Marco Granados, Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera is a Cuban alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards, D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s. He has worked in a variety of contexts, but is perhaps best known for playing Latin...
, Simón Díaz
Simón Díaz
Simón Narciso Díaz Márquez is a singer and Grammy Award winning composer of Venezuelan music.- Career :Díaz has endeavored to recover the folklore and musical traditions of the llanos, the Venezuelan plains...
, Edward Simon, Raul Jaurena, Tito Castro, Katie Viqueira, Pablo Ziegler
Pablo Ziegler
Pablo Ziegler is an Argentine composer based in Buenos Aires and New York City. He is currently the leading exponent of nuevo tango, thanks to the skills and reputation he gathered while working extensively as Ástor Piazzolla's regular pianist from 1978 until the maestro's retirement for health...
, etc.
His voice has been recognized by various bands and theaters. He has been featured in Marco Granados' Un Mundo Ensemble and David Oquendo's Latin Jazz. He also has been one of lead singers for the 2004 ACE Award Winner off-off Broadway production "Tiempo de Tango". As a tango singer, he has performed in Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Piazzolla
Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
's María de Buenos Aires
María de Buenos Aires
María de Buenos Aires is a tango opera with music by Ástor Piazzolla. and libretto by Horacio Ferrer which premiered at the Sala Planeta in Buenos Aires in May 1968....
and Lincoln Center Institute's Camerata Latina.
Edward Simon
A Venezuelan jazz pianist who is well-received by critics. Simon has performed with numerous jazz masters such as Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music...
, Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera is a Cuban alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards, D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s. He has worked in a variety of contexts, but is perhaps best known for playing Latin...
, Bobby Hutcherson
Bobby Hutcherson
Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...
, Bobby Watson
Bobby Watson
Bobby Watson is an American post-bop jazz alto saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator. Watson now has 26 recordings as a leader. He appears on nearly 100 other recordings as either co-leader or in a supporting role...
, Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard
Terence Oliver Blanchard is an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and film score composer. Since he emerged on the scene in 1980 with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and then shortly thereafter with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Blanchard has been a leading artist in jazz...
, Don Byron
Don Byron
Don Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet, but has also used bass clarinet and saxophones....
, etc. Performing with Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera
Paquito D'Rivera is a Cuban alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards, D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s. He has worked in a variety of contexts, but is perhaps best known for playing Latin...
influenced him to integrate his native music into his style. He has recorded nine albums as a leader. He has involved in more than 40 albums. His work has been recognized by various organizations such as Chamber Music America and the New York Foundation for the Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts
The New York Foundation for the Arts was created in conjunction the in 1971. The organization gives grants to individual artists and writers and developing arts organizations with a mission to '.'-NYFA's Programs:...
.
New York Times describes, "Mr. Simon's touch, light and warm, allows for his music to drift calmly, taking its time to get to where it has to go."
Scott Colley
Scott Colley
Scott Colley is an American jazz bassist and Composer.Scott has performed extensively in bands led by: Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, Andrew Hill, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, Pat Metheny, Carmen McRae, Edward Simon, Adam Rogers, Brian Blade, David Binney, Antonio Sanchez, Kenny Werner...
His forceful lines, impeccable articulation, assured sense of swing and sensitive support have made Scott Colley
Scott Colley
Scott Colley is an American jazz bassist and Composer.Scott has performed extensively in bands led by: Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, Andrew Hill, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, Pat Metheny, Carmen McRae, Edward Simon, Adam Rogers, Brian Blade, David Binney, Antonio Sanchez, Kenny Werner...
the bassist of choice for such jazz legends as Jim Hall
Jim Hall (musician)
James Stanley Hall is an American jazz guitarist.-Biography:Educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Hall moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s...
, Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s...
and Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
. Colley's remarkably empathetic skills, strong melodic penchant and improvisational daring have also served him well in groups led by colleagues Chris Potter
Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist)
Chris Potter is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.-Biography:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Potter spent most of his childhood in Columbia, South Carolina where his mother taught psychology at the University of South Carolina...
, Greg Osby
Greg Osby
Greg Osby is an American jazz saxophonist who plays mainly in the free jazz, free funk and M-Base idioms.-Biography:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Osby studied at Howard University, where he majored in Jazz Studies, and then at the Berklee College of Music, with Andy McGhee...
, David Binney
David Binney
David Binney is an American alto saxophonist and composer living in New York City.-Biography:David was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Southern California. His parents were jazz fans, and introduced Binney to jazz musicians such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bobby Hutcherson and Wayne Shorter...
and Adam Rogers
Adam Rogers
Adam Rogers is an American guitarist specializing in post bop, contemporary jazz, and classical music. Rogers has had a prolific and extensive session history as a recording guitarist having played on over 150 commercially released recordings...
.
Adam Cruz
Adam Cruz
Adam Cruz is an American jazz drummer . He is best known for his work with pianist Danilo Perez, saxophonist Steve Wilson, David Sanchez, and pianist Edward Simon...
A New York City native gifted drummer in both jazz and Latin styles. His musicality, versatility and technical skill have brought him wide recognition. Cruz has been featured on nearly 40 recordings. He has recorded and toured with The Mingus Big Band
Mingus Big Band
The Mingus Big Band is an ensemble, based in New York City, that specializes in the compositions of the late Charles Mingus. It is managed by his widow, Sue Mingus and represented by Tree Lawn Artists, Inc.. In addition to its weekly Monday night appearance at the Jazz Standard in New York City,...
, David Sánchez Quintet, Leon Parker Band, Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
's Origin Sextet, Danilo Perez
Danilo Pérez
Danilo Pérez is a Panamanian pianist and composer.-Early life:Danilo Pérez was born in Panama in 1965. He is considered one of the finest contemporary pianists and jazz composers of our era....
, and has also performed with such artists as Mongo Santamaría
Mongo Santamaría
Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1950 he moved to New York where he played with Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Fania All...
, Airto Moreira
Airto Moreira
Airto Moreira is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Airto is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.-Biography:...
, Herbie Mann
Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music...
and McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.-Early life:...
.
Guest Artists
- Paquito D'RiveraPaquito D'RiveraPaquito D'Rivera is a Cuban alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards, D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s. He has worked in a variety of contexts, but is perhaps best known for playing Latin...
(sax) - Marco Granados (flute)
- Pernell SaturninoPernell SaturninoPernell Saturnino is a Grammy-award winner percussionist from the Caribbean island of Curaçao. He is continuing a musical legacy established by his distinguished family in the island. His grandmother, granduncle and grandaunt, were among those who originated and developed the island's indigenous...
(percussion) - Diego Urcola (trumpet)