Results for "Sam Minaie"

Sam Minaie

Iranian-American bassist, Sam Minaie, was born in Reno, Nevada and started piano lessons at age 8. At age 14, he switched to electric and upright bass and was granted numerous command performances in classical bass performance while beginning to also work professionally in all styles of music around the Reno/Tahoe area. Sam was granted a full scholarship and received a Bachelor of Arts in Classical and Jazz Performance at the University of Nevada, Reno. He then moved to Los Angeles where, under scholarship, he received a Masters of Fine Arts in Jazz Studies at California Institute of the Arts. At CalArts, Sam studied with Charlie Haden and African Ewe master, Alfred Ladzekpo as well as a broad range of other world music masters. While in Los Angeles, Sam quickly made a name for himself as one of the most sought-after bassists on the scene and moved to New York in May of 2009

Human Activity: Dream of the Possible

By Brad Shepik

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Code Red; The Search; Dream of the Possible; Symbioticity; Future Generations; Travel Back; Still Heat; All Hands; Naturitude; Orange Haze.

Abiding Memory

By Phillip Golub

Label: Endectomorph
Released: 2024
Track listing: Catching a Thread; Threads Gather; The Group to Hear; A Regrouping; Unspooled (Waiting Quietly); In a Secret Corner; Where Lapses Elapse; At the 11th Hour; A Moment Becomes; Abiding Memory.

Radio Afloat (ICR031)

By Layale Chaker

Label: In the Circle
Released: 2024
Track listing: Intro - "...and from the dove I raised myself"; Anatomie of Titus - I. Fall of Rome; Anatomie of Titus - II. Quasi Samai (Feat John Hadfield); Khab Nisan (Feat Phillip Golub); Interlude (Feat Jake Charkey); Ocean to Ocean; Sketch - Unraveled ( Feat Sam Minaie); Southern Sky; Nocturnal: Backburn.

Dream of the Possible

December 7, 2024

Album: Human Activity: Dream of the Possible
By Brad Shepik
Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 03:27

Identity

By Ross Pederson

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. "Anxiety'" 2. "Now" 3. "In the Moment" 4. "Contemplation" 5. "Strange Things" 6. "Sagittarius" 7. "Hope Uplift" 8. "No Pressure" 9."Bedlam" 10."Somewhere in the World" 11."Bigger Than That"

Aire

By Magos Herrera

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Aire; Gracias a la vida; The Calling; Choro de Lua; Alfonsina y el mar; Passarinhadeira; Obra Filhia; Remanso; Papalote Intro; Papalote; Samba em preludio; Healer.

Anxiety

September 24, 2023

Album: Identity
By Ross Pederson
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 07:30

Believers

By Brad Shepik

Label: Orenda Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Seven Crotales; Baraye Shoma; Nomadic Days; The Sigh; Waterwheel; Rêve Pour Louis; Fractured Water; Mona Mona.

Believers: Believers

by Friedrich Kunzmann
March 16, 2021

The three individuals making up Believers are each highly respected musical voices in their own right. Percussionist John Hadfield has performed and recorded with the likes of Nguyen Le and released an inspired duo EP with woodwind autodidact Lenny Pickett, called Heard by Others (Orenda Records, 2020). Sam Minaie, on the other hand, has played bass ...