Tisziji Munoz
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Tisziji Muñoz is an American jazz guitarist
.
He served as drummer in the 440th U.S. Army band. He left the US Army in 1969. In the 1970s, he lived in Canada and New York City
. He played in Pharoah Sanders
' band. In 1978, he recorded his first album, on the India Navigation
label: Rendezvous with Now. In 1984, he moved to Schenectady. He plays in the Tisziji Munoz Quartet with other jazz musicians, including Late Night with David Letterman
musical director Paul Shaffer
. Along with other musicians, he performed at the 150th anniversary of the Steinway & Sons
piano company, at Carnegie Hall
, in 2003.
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
.
He served as drummer in the 440th U.S. Army band. He left the US Army in 1969. In the 1970s, he lived in Canada and New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. He played in Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders is a Grammy Award–winning American jazz saxophonist.Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on...
' band. In 1978, he recorded his first album, on the India Navigation
India Navigation
India Navigation was an American independent record label that was active from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Founded by corporate lawyer Bob Cummins, the label specialized in jazz music, particularly avant-garde jazz.-Discography:...
label: Rendezvous with Now. In 1984, he moved to Schenectady. He plays in the Tisziji Munoz Quartet with other jazz musicians, including Late Night with David Letterman
Late Night with David Letterman
Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC that was created and hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 as the first incarnation of the Late Night franchise and went off the air in 1993, after Letterman left NBC and moved to Late Show on CBS. Late Night...
musical director Paul Shaffer
Paul Shaffer
Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's sidekick since 1982.-Early years:...
. Along with other musicians, he performed at the 150th anniversary of the Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway , is an American and German manufacturer of handmade pianos, founded 1853 in Manhattan in New York City by German immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg...
piano company, at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, in 2003.
Musical style
He uses a single-line playing style, due to a childhood wrist injury.Influence
Shaffer, in his autobiography We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives, describes Munoz as a mentor and inspiration for his musical career. Pharoah Sanders has said, "He's the only guitar player I really know that I can play with."Discography
- Muñoz plays guitar on all albums, other instruments credited as applicable
- Love Always: Spirit of the Ancient Masters (2007), a compilation reissued by Columbia Music EntertainmentColumbia Music Entertainmentis a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as . It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK Columbia trademarks in 1931. The company changed its name to Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. in 1946. It used the Nippon Columbia name until...
, Japan - Love At First Sound (2005) Ra-kalam Bob MosesBob Moses (musician)Rakalam Bob Moses is an American jazz drummer born in New York City.Moses played with Roland Kirk in 1964-65 while he was still a teenager. In 1966 he and Larry Coryell formed The Free Spirits, a jazz fusion ensemble, and from 1967 to 1969 he played in Gary Burton's quartet...
: drums, John Lockwood & Justin Purtill, bass - Divine Radiance, Anami/DreyfusDisques DreyfusDisques Dreyfus is a record label which is currently home to artists such as Klement Julienne. Jean Michel Jarre was part of the label for more than 20 years.Francis Dreyfus founded Disque Dreyfus in 1985...
(2003) Rashied AliRashied AliRashied Ali, born Robert Patterson was an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life.-Biography:...
: drums, Pharoah Sanders: tenor sax, Ravi ColtraneRavi ColtraneRavi Coltrane is an American post-bop jazz saxophonist. Co-owner of the record label RKM Music, he has produced artists such as pianist Luis Perdomo , guitarist David Gilmore and trumpeter Ralph Alessi....
: soprano sax, Paul Shaffer: piano & synth, Cecil McBeeCecil McBeeCecil McBee is an American post bop jazz bassist, described by the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz as "a full-toned bassist who creates rich, singing phrases in a wide range of contemporary jazz contexts." Allmusic called him "One of post-bop's most advanced and versatile bassists".-Biography:McBee...
& Don Pate: bass - Shaman-Bala (2002) Muñoz: synth, Rashied Ali: drums, Bernie Senensky: piano, Don Pate: bass
- Hu-Man Spirit (2001) Muñoz: bells, synth, flutes & scream, Rashied Ali: drums, Dave LiebmanDave LiebmanDave Liebman is an American saxophonist and flautist. In June 2010, he received a NEA Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.-Biography:...
: saxophones & flute solo, Don Pate & John Lockwood: bass, Bernie Senensky: piano - Parallel Reality (2000) Muñoz: synth, bells, Rashied Ali: drums, Ravi Coltrane: tenor & soprano saxophones, Don Pate: bass
- Breaking the Wheel of Life and Death (2000) Muñoz: bells, Rashied Ali: drums, Marilyn CrispellMarilyn CrispellMarilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Crispell studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio...
: piano, Don Pate: bass - Auspicious Healing (2000) Muñoz: synths, Marilyn Crispell: piano, Henry KaiserHenry Kaiser (musician)Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer.Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "first generation" of American free improvisers.-Biography:His grandfather was the...
: guitar, guitar fx, Mark DresserMark DresserMark Dresser is an American double bass player and composer.-Biography:He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new" jazz composition and improvisation. For ten years he performed with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well as diverse groups led by Ray Anderson, Tim Berne,...
: bass, Lukas LigetiLukas LigetiLukas Ligeti is a composer and percussionist. His work incorporates elements of jazz, contemporary classical, and various world musics.- Background :...
: drums - Presence Of Mastery (1999) Muñoz: synth, Rashied Ali: drums, Paul Shaffer: piano & organ, Don Pate: bass
- Presence Of Joy (1999) Muñoz: bells, Rashied Ali: drums, Dave Liebman: tenor/soprano sax, Bernie Senensky: piano, Cecil McBee & Don Pate: bass
- Presence Of Truth (1999) Rashied Ali: drums and percussion, Hilton RuizHilton RuizHilton Ruiz was a Puerto Rican American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player....
: piano, Don Pate: bass - Tisziji Muñoz Live! Great Sacrifice (1999) Bob Moses: drums, Paul Shaffer: synth, Bernie Senensky: piano, Don Pate: bass
- Alpha-Nebula (1997) Muñoz: keyboard synths, bells, vocals, Bob Moses & Franklin KiermyerFranklin KiermyerFranklin Kiermyer in Montréal, Canada, is a drummer/composer who came to prominence in the 1990s during his long residency in New York City. Kiermyer's work is inspired by a variety of spiritual musics including the late period of John Coltrane...
: drums and percussion, Don Pate & John Lockwood: bass - Spirit World (1997) Muñoz: keyboard synths, bells, vocals, Rashied Ali: drums & percussion, Pharoah Sanders: saxophone, vocal effects, Bernie Senensky: piano, Don Pate: bass
- Present Without A Trace (1997) Muñoz: keyboard synths, Rashied Ali: drums & percussion, Pharoah Sanders: saxophone, Bernie Senensky: piano, Don Pate: bass
- The River of Blood (1997) Muñoz: keyboard synths, shenaiShehnaiThe shehnai, shahnai, shenai or mangal vadya, is an aerophonic instrument, a double reed conical oboe, common in North India, West India and Pakistan, made out of wood, with a metal flare bell at the end...
, Rashied Ali: drums & percussion, Pharoah Sanders & Dave Liebman: saxophone, John HicksJohn HicksSir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS/LM model , which...
: piano, Don Pate: bass - Death Is A Friend Of Mine (1996) Muñoz: keyboard synths, quinto & hand drums, Bernie Senensky: piano, Bob Moses: drums, Don Pate: bass
- Spirit Man (1995) Muñoz: keyboard synths, Bob Moses: drums, Bernie Senensky: piano & church organ, Don Pate: bass
- Heart Sound (1995) Muñoz: synth, Gregg Murphy: piano, Don Pate: bass, Toby Williams: drums
- Live Again! At Page Hall with Nick Brignola (1994) Nick BrignolaNick Brignola-Biography:He was born on July 17, 1936 in Troy, New York. Nick was born into a musical family in which his father played the tuba and his uncle played the banjo. As a mostly self-taught musician, he developed his facility on all of his instruments using unconventional techniques, which gave his...
: saxophone, Bob Moses: drums, Bernie Senensky: piano, Don Pate: bass - Live Again! At Page Hall with Dave Liebman (1994) Dave Liebman: saxophone, Bob Moses: drums, Bernie Senensky: piano, Don Pate: bass
- Live! At Page Hall (1993) Bernie Senensky: piano, Don Pate: bass, Bob Moses: drums
- Hearing Voices (1980's) see Visiting This Planet
- Visiting This Planet (1980's) Muñoz: synth guitar, keyboard, synth keyboard, shenai, congas, flutes & percussion, Paul Shaffer: piano & synth keyboard, John Hicks & Bernie Senensky & Michael CochraneMichael CochraneMichael Cochrane is an English actor who specialises in playing upper class characters, sometimes with a suaveness that hides their villainy....
& Jon Weiss: piano, Pharoah Sanders: tenor saxophone, Dave Liebman: soprano saxophone, Bob Moses & Idris Muhammed & Adam NussbaumAdam Nussbaum-Biography:Nussbaum grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut and started to play drums at age 12 after studying piano for five years. He also played bass and saxophone as a teenager. He moved to New York City in 1975 to attend The Davis Center for Performing Arts at City College...
& Guillermo CantuGuillermo CantúGuillermo Cantú is a Mexican former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a midfielder.-Career:Born in Torreón, Cantú played professionally for Atlante, Club León and Atlético Celaya....
: drums, Guillerme Franco: percussion, Art DavisArt DavisArt Davis was a double-bassist, known for his work with various seminal jazz musicians including Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.-Biography:...
& Dennis IrwinDennis IrwinDennis Irwin was an American jazz double bassist. He toured and recorded with John Scofield and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra among others, and played on over 500 albums.-Biography:...
& Cecil McBee & Don Pate & Ratso Harris: bass - New Year’s: First Day (1988) Muñoz’ solo project: keyboard, guitar synthesizer, percussion, drums (no guitar)
- Rendezvous with Now, India NavigationIndia NavigationIndia Navigation was an American independent record label that was active from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Founded by corporate lawyer Bob Cummins, the label specialized in jazz music, particularly avant-garde jazz.-Discography:...
(1978)