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Armen Halburian (born December 25, 1933 in New York City , † March 16, 2011 in Ringwood , New Jersey ) was an American drummer and percussionist , who was known in the field of jazz and fusion as well as a studio musician.

Live and act

Halburian began playing the drums when he was twelve; At seventeen he toured as a professional musician. After two years of military service, he played in Marian McPartland's trio before returning to New York to work full-time in a photography business. With his instruments, which also included gongs, bells and the dumbeg , he made reference to his Armenian roots. In 1970 he worked with Joe Farrell . With Michal Urbaniak , Zbigniew Seifert , Tomasz Stańko , Urszula Dudziak, he worked on the tribute album We'll Remember Komeda in 1972 . In 1973 he played on Larry Young's album Lawrence of Newark . From the mid-1970s he was a long-time member of Herbie Mann's Family of Mann and is u. a. on his Atlantic albums London Underground and Discoteque , (1975). He also worked with John Fischers ( Interface , 1975). In 1977 he recorded a duo album with Miroslav Vitouš ( Miroslav on the Freedom label). During this time he also worked as a studio musician on recordings of Leonard Cohen ( New Skin for the Old Ceremony , 1974), Richard Harris ' The Prophet Kahlil Gibran (with Arif Mardin 1975), Ryō Kawasaki ( Ring Toss , 1977), Dave Liebman ( Lookout Farm , ECM, 1974) and Woody Shaw ( Rosewood , 1977) with. In the late 1970s he played with Roy Ayers , then he worked with Matt Garbo and Tennyson Walters. His last appearance was in 2009 in Bergenfield with the Latin jazz band Cactus Salad . Halburian, who had also made several inventions in the percussion area, died of cancer in March 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary at NorthJersey.com
  2. ↑ Biography of the website
  3. ↑ Review of the album We'll Remember Komeda on Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 21, 2011.
  4. ↑ Inventions
personal data
SURNAME Halburian, poor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and studio musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2011
Place of death Ringwood , New Jersey