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FOCUS ON: Aaron Alexander
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- Label: Tzadik >>
- Genre: Jazz, World & Blues
Drummer and Composer Aaron Alexander is considered by many to be a really great klezmer and jazz drummer, as well as possessing a unique and exceptional compositional voice.
Over the past decade and a half his performances and recordings with Hasidic New Wave, Babkas, The Klezmatics, Greg Walls Later Prophets, Alicia Svigals, Satoko Fujii Orchestra, Tronzo Trio, Jay Clayton, Margot Leverett, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Boban Markovich Orchestra and Frank Londons Klezmer Brass All-Stars have brought his music to the attention of listeners all over the world.
Alexander has toured extensively in North America and Europe with many different groups. He has appeared on Prairie Home Companion with the Klezmatics, BET Live with Hasidic New Wave, performed music for theatre at Joseph Papp Public Theater, Seattle Rep Theater, Arena Stage in Wash. DC and LaMama Etc. Alexander has composed and performed music for Dance and conceived and produced Hasidic New Waves acclaimed collaboration with Senegalese Sabar ensemble Yakar Rhythms. He has received composition grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and Meet The Composer Foundation. His collective band Timebone, in 1990 won an Earshot Jazz award for "Best Acoustic Jazz Group."
Aaron has appeared at many of the top Jazz and World Music Festivals and Venues, including Texaco NY Jazz Fest, North Sea Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Royal Festival Hall in London, Berlin Jazz Festival, Ring Ring Festival (Belgrade), Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto, Pori Jazz Festival (Finland), New Morning in Paris, Lincoln Center, Pepsi Sziget Festival (Budapest), San Francisco Jazz Festival, Earshot Jazz Festival, Moods in Zurich, Krakow Festival of Jewish Culture, Porgy and Bess in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and others in Buenos Aires, Latvia, Bratislava (Pressburg), Rome, Milan, Venice and Spokane.
Alexander moved to New York City from Seattle in 1993.