ARTIST: The Damon Grant Project
TITLE: Sonidos Nuevos (New Sounds)
LABEL: Damon Grant
GENRE: Jazz
BITRATE: 198kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 05min total
RELEASE DATE: 2003-00-00
RIP DATE: 2007-08-24
TRACK LIST
1. Reptomin 6:02
2. Mark's Tune In 6 7:16
3. Loose Lips Sink Ships 9:24
4. Descarga Pequena 8:05
5. You'll Never Find It Now (For 0:53
Colby James)
6. No Me Llores Mas 7:03
7. Bajoira 1:17
8. Flax Hill Descarga 9:35
9. Impulse 8:32
10.Quimbara 2k3 5:06
11.La Topa (From Ellequa) 2:25
RELEASE NOTES
Energetic latin jazz that gets your pulse going with some of the hottest world
class players on the scene today. Original and traditional music, with a fresh
sound and afro-carribean rhythms.
Damon Grant performs original and traditional jazz compositions on vibraphone,
marimba and a variety of other percussion instruments with Afro-Caribbean flair
in his own group, The Damon Grant Project. He and his group have been recognized
for their work in ôModern Drummerö and ôLatin Beatö Magazines. Damon has also
been recognized as a performer with the University of Massachusetts Jazz
Ensembles by ôDownbeat Magazineö, and has received four awards.
Damon, a native of Norwalk, Connecticut, has played with many ensembles,
including some of the top Salsa, Orchestral, Dance, Jazz, and Funk groups in the
United States. He has performed on stage with many world class musicians,
including: Richie Flores, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, John Benitez, Robby
Ameen, The Original Parliament Funkadelic, Fred Wesley, George Porter Jr., and
Stefon Harris. Damon currently performs with the Funk/Rock group, The Bomb
Squad, which won an American Music Award in 2003. Damon was also an original
member of the Broadway show, Blast!, which won both a Tony and an Emmy award.
He, and the groups he has performed in, have opened for acts such as: Isaac
Hayes, David Sanborn, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and George Clinton. Damon
performed as a member of the Cadets Drum Corps for several years, in which he
participated in the 1996 Closing Ceremonies of the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
Damon has performed at numerous venues, including: The Kennedy Center, The
Montreal International Jazz Festival, The Rich Forum, The Palace Theater, The
Milford and Norwalk Oyster Festivals, The Berkshire Jazz Festival, The
Hammersmith Apollo of London, HarperÆs Ferry, The Downtown, The Iron Horse Music
Hall, Tribeca Rock Club, The Funk Box, The Iridium Jazz Club, The Gathering of
the Vibes, The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The New Hampshire Funk and
Blues Festival, The Percussive Arts Society International Conference, ToadÆs
Place, and The Soul Cafe restaurant.
Damon received a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz performance from the
University of Massachusetts in February 2001. He has studied with musical legend
Yusef Lateef, as well as master percussionist; Giovanni Hidalgo
Damon has just as much teaching experience as he has playing experience. He
started by teaching at the high school he graduated from Norwalk High School in
Norwalk, CT. He has taught their award winning marching and jazz ensembles in
addition to being a guest performer and clinician. From there he started
teaching at Boston College. Damon currently teaches at his alma mater, the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst with Thom Hannum. He continues to do so
today while also teaching privately in Norwalk and Greenwich, CT, consulting at
Stamford High School and teaching the front ensemble for the 21 time DCI
finalist, Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps. Damon not only teaches locally, but
also has traveled around the country giving masterclasses and clinics on various
percussion instruments and styles of Jazz and Latin music.