Jim Pugliese

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Jim Pugliese (Saalfelden 2009)

James "Jim" Pugliese (* 1952 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American percussionist , drummer and composer who has emerged in the fields of experimental music and jazz as well as rock music .

Live and act

Pugliese grew up with soul and blues music . He took percussion lessons from Raymond Des Roches; at the age of 16 he recorded works by Edgar Varèse , Michael Colgrass , Henry Cowell and Charles Wuorinen for Nonesuch Records as part of the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble . Over the next few years he worked on the music of John Cage , Lukas Foss , Kent Nagano and Philip Glass . For twelve years he was part of Dean Drummond's "Newband" and the " Harry Partch Ensemble", where he got to know microtonal music extensively . At the same time he was occupied with Afro-Cuban rhythms, which he studied with Pablo Landrum.

Pugliese has also been active in the downtown Manhattan scene since the mid-1980s and has appeared with John Zorn , Marc Ribot , Zeena Parkins , Bobby Previte and Anthony Coleman and can be heard with them on phonograms. He was also active as a studio musician, for example for Sanda Weigl , Nana Simopoulos , David Shea , Doug Wieselman and Annie Gosfield . He recorded Michael Torkes Slate as a xylophone soloist with the London Sinfonietta . His composition Freeze was recorded by the Newband in 1993 (Play Microtonal Works 2). With Christine Bard and Michael Evans he formed the trio "EasSide Percussion", which in 1997 released their first album. In 1998 he recorded his solo album Sonic Soul .

He also worked with the Ghanaian musician Nii Tettey Tetteh and with Milford Graves and learned to play the mbira . His album Live @ Issue Project Room NYC was named Best New Release of 2008 by All About Jazz .

Pugliese also works as a music teacher at New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts .

Discographic notes

with Anthony Coleman
  • Selfhaters ( Tzadik , 1996)
  • Lapidation (New World, 2007)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Jersey Percussion Ensemble: Percussion Music
personal data
SURNAME Pugliese, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pugliese, James (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American percussionist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark (New Jersey)