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Infobox musical artist | name = Peter Apfelbaum| image = Peter Apfelbaum.JPG| caption = Peter Apfelbaum live with the Steven Bernstein "Diaspora Suite" in Saalfelden, 2009. Photo by Davide Leonardi| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| origin =| instrument = Tenor Saxophone, Piano, Keyboards, Drums, Percussion| genre = jazz | occupation =| years_active =| label =| associated_acts =| website =Peter Apfelbaum (born 1960) is an United States|American avant-garde jazz pianist , tenor saxophone|tenor saxophonist , drummer and composer born in Berkeley, California . He first emerged on the jazz scene in the late 1970s, performing with Carla Bley from 1978–1982 and touring with Warren Smith (jazz musician)|Warren Smith and Karl Berger . Around this time Apfelbaum also studied and worked with musicians involved with the http://www.creativemusicstudio.org/ Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York. He graduated from Berkeley High School in 1978, in a class that included jazz pianist Benny Green.
Apfelbaum has made an impact on the avant-garde jazz and world music scene since the late 1970s and 1980s. He is a well known multi-instrumentalist and composer. His three main instruments are tenor saxophone , piano , and drum s, but he has recorded and performed with a diverse array of percussion, wind, and other instruments. He has composed suites for various artists (including Don Cherry (jazz)|Don Cherry ) as well as his 17-piece group The Hieroglyphics Ensemble . In 1990 Apfelbaum toured and recorded with Cherry in the group Multikulti (band)|Multikulti , playing both piano and saxophone. In the early 1990s, Apfelbaum opened shows for The Grateful Dead with The Hieroglyphics Ensemble . Apfelbaum formed The Hieroglyphics Ensemble with jazz musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area, including Jeff Cressman , Will Bernard , Norbert Stachel , Jessica Jones , Tony Jones , Peck Almond , Dezon Claiborne , Josh Jones , Jai Uttal , and many others. In 1991 his album "Signs Of Life," recorded with The Hieroglyphics Ensemble, went to #14 on Billboard (magazine) 's "top contemporary jazz albums.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p6024/charts-awards|pure_url=yes All Music The latest incarnation of this group, The New York Hieroglyphics , released "It Is Written" in 2005, featuring members from the original group and New York-based musicians such asPatrice Blanchard , Dafnis Prieto , Josh Roseman , and Abdoulaye Diabate . His compositions and performances have influenced many artists active in the contemporary jazz fusion scene. His work recombines and synthesizes varieties of world music (i.e. various non-Western diasporic musical traditions) with experimental jazz idioms. http://www.downbeat.com/artists/window.asp? action=new& aid=463& aname=Peter+Apfelbaum Down Beat Profile Of how his music came into being, Apfelbaum writes: "My vocabulary reflects the fact that I started life as a drummer, was trained in jazz theory, blues and gospel music as a pre-teenager, became absorbed in African and Latin music as a teenager, listened to a lot of contemporary classical music, worked in R& B, reggae, blues, Latin, African, jazz, funk, Middle Eastern and Indian bands and, for as long asI can remember, I've been fascinated by how sounds can be fitted together." http://www.peterapfelbaum.com/
expand section|date=December 2011 With Don Cherry (jazz)|Don Cherry
Multikuti (album)|Multikuti (A& M, 1990)
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Reflist Persondata | NAME = Apfelbaum, Peter | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 1960 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Apfelbaum, Peter Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:People from Berkeley, California Category:American jazz pianists Category:Avant-garde jazz saxophonists Category:Avant-garde jazz drummers Category:Avant-garde jazz pianists
