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Kyra Gaunt, ethnomusicologist, author, and critical social media researcher, joined the faculty in music at University at Albany in 2017. She is a TED Fellow and a Senior Ford Fellow who voices the unspoken through song, scholarship, and social media. Classically-trained for 12 years, she studied voice with tenor George Shirley at The University of Michigan and studied jazz with pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs, saxophonist Patience Higgins, and the legendary pianist/pedagog Barry Harris. Gaunt has appeared on stage with Bobby McFerrin, Bob James, and Graham Haynes among others, and she continues to perform jazz, poetry, and record as a R&B singer-songwriter. Her album "Be the True Revolution" is available on iTunes and CDBaby.
Bob Gluck, pianist, electronic musician, author, and Professor of Music at the University at Albany, has released ten CDs, most recently including ÒAt This TimeÓ with Tani Tabbal, and ÒInfinite Spirit: Revisiting Music of the Mwandishi BandÓ (FMR, 2016, with Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, and Christopher Dean Sullivan). His books include ÒYouÕll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi BandÓ (2012) and ÒThe Miles Davis ÔLostÕ Quintet and Other Revolutionary EnsemblesÓ (2016) are both published by University of Chicago Press. Collaborators have included include Michael Bisio, Jane Ira Bloom, Billy Hart, Aruan Ortiz, Andrew Sterman, Neil Rolnick, Ken Filiano, Christopher Dean Sullivan, Eddie Henderson, Ken Filiano, Joe Giardullo, Eddie Allen, Ras Moshe Burnett, and Dean Sharp.
Christopher Dean Sullivan is a renowned bassist of many musical languages: Jazz, Funk, Reggae, Latin, Fusion, Caribbean, Indian, African, and Eurocentric perceptions, rock, country, and more. He has shared the stage with Stanley Jordan, Pete Seeger, Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, Grant Green, Horace Parlan, Joe McPhee, Sonny Simmons, Cecil Payne, Joe Lovano, Roy Campbell Jr., and recorded with Michael Marcus, Joe Giardullo, Sheila Jordan, Odean Pope, Newman Taylor Baker, and others. Sullivan played on GluckÕs 2011 recording ÒSomething QuietÓ with Giardullo (FMR Records). Sullivan also performs with the Cotton Club All Star Orchestra and he has toured with 50's/60's groups including the Marcel's, The Drifters, and the Sharelles. Sullivan is also an educator and actor.
Tani Tabbal is known as a dynamic, lyrical and energetic drummer. He began playing drums professionally as a teen, performing with Oscar Brown Jr., Phil Cohran, and Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Tabbal has recorded, performed and toured with a wide range of musicians, including Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray, Geri Allen, Cassandra Wilson, James Carter, Karl Berger, Dewey Redman, David 'Fathead' Newman, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Douglas Ewart, Oliver Lake, Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, Richard Davis, Leroy Jenkins, Milt Jackson, and Jackie McLean. As a recording artist, he is on over 70 cdÕs and has released three CDs as a bandleader: "Before Time After," "Wizards" and "Mixed Motion."
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