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BIOGRAPHY
Jim Pugliese is a drummer, percussionist and composer. In his most recent work he combines
years of experience improvising, playing new and experimental music and world music.
Jim grew up listening to and playing soul music and rhythm
and blues. He later went on to study percussion with Raymond Des Roches performing and
or recording new music with John Cage, Lukas Foss, Kent Nagano, Philip Glass and Carlos
Chavez. He spent twelve years as a member of Dean Drummond’s Newband and The Harry Partch
Ensemble, studying and performing microtonal music. At the same time he developed an
interest in Afro-Cuban music and studied drumming and rhythm with Master Drummer Pablo
Landrum.
For the last fifteen years, while living in the east village of New York City, Jim has
been improvising and recording with many of downtowns most prominent composer/improvisers
including John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins, David Shea and Anthony Coleman. He has recorded
on over sixty CD's of new music, jazz, rock and movie soundtracks. Jim has established himself
as both performer and composer throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.
In 1993 the new music group Newband recorded his composition FREEZE
for the Mode recording label. In 1998 Jim was selected as Artist In Residence at Harvestworks in NYC where he recorded his
solo CD "Sonic Soul". He performs regularly with Philip Glass and on November 23rd,
1997 Avant released the first cd for his collaborative trio Easside Percussion with
Christine Bard and Michael Evans. This group is about to release their second CD for the Tzadik label.
Jim is also a dedicated educator and has created and designed numerous workshops including;
"Problems and Solutions for New and Experimental Composition", "Extended and Improvisation Techniques" and
"History and Interpretation of Graphic Scores".
In his ongoing quest to explore the powerful, enlightening and spiritual secrets of drumming Jim is currently
collaborating with Nii Tettey Tetteh master musician from Ghana, continuing his work with Milford Graves on
learning drumming and healing through the heartbeat and studying the spiritual songs of the Mbira
Dzavadzimu from Zimbabwe.
His current projects include a collaborative band "IDR" with Marco Cappelli, exploring
the relationship between Southern Italian Folk Music and Improvisation and his band "Phase III"
for which he composes music reflecting his many years of experience in new music and improvisation.
"Hydrogen Jukebox" Philip Glass, Nonesuch Records (1993)
With EasSide Percussion:
With Marc Ribot:
With N.J. Percussion Ensemble:
With Newband and Harry Partch Ensemble:
With John Zorn:
With Lee Hyla:
With Anthony Coleman:
With David Shea:
With Zeena Parkins:
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