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Mariah Parker

has been playing music from the time she could reach the keys on the grand piano in her family home. While completing her degree in music at UC Santa Cruz, she worked with ethnomusicologist Fred Lieberman and drummer Mickey Hart on the “Planet Drum” project and became fascinated with the possibilities of bridging musical concepts from different traditions. She has performed her original compositions in festivals in the US and Europe. A gifted composer and band leader, she released her first solo recording of her compositions, “Sangria,” in February of 2009. Her second release, “Indo Latin Jazz Live in Concert” was released in 2017 and spend 16 weeks on the National Jazzweek Airplay chart, reaching #32. Both releases received extensive airplay and critical acclaim worldwide.

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Mariah Parker Indo Latin Jazz: Live in Concert

Read "Live in Concert" reviewed by David Becker


Traditional Indian music, various Latin styles and contemporary jazz have negotiated an unlikely but productive friendship in the Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble, a periodically convened combo of top Northern California jazz and world music players led by pianist Mariah Parker. She reunites the unit for Live in Concert (Ancient Future.com Records, 2017), a collection of smartly imagined original tunes that touch on range of cultural influences but never push connections. You'd expect nothing less from a cast a ...

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Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble In Live Concert Recording Session And Birthday Celebration

Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble In Live Concert Recording Session And Birthday Celebration

Source: Matthew Montfort

Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble Performs at the Freight and Salvage, Berkeley Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Sextet (clockwise: Mariah Parker, Matthew Montfort, Paul McCandless, Kash Killion, Brian Rice, Ian Dogole). Collage by Mettagraphics. Live Concert Recording Session and Birthday Celebration Sunday, January 20, 2013, 8:00 PM Freight and Salvage 2020 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94704 Tix: $20.50 adv. at Freight Box Office and Ticketweb.com, $22.50 door (doors open at 7:00 PM) Info: (510) 644-2020, [email protected] Mariah Parker's multi-faceted ...

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Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Quintet Returns to Yoshi's

Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Quintet Returns to Yoshi's

Source: Michael Ricci

Featuring Mariah Parker (composer, piano, santur) and a stellar lineup of musicians including Grammy award winning woodwind virtuoso Paul McCandless (known through his work with the seminal chamber jazz groups Paul Winter Consort and Oregon), trailblazing guitarist Matthew Montfort (Ancient Future), bassist and cellist Kash Killion (Sun Ra Arkestra, Cecil Taylor); and Indian tabla/jazz drum set pioneer Sameer Gupta (Marc Cary, VidyA, Chitresh Das, Anindo Chatterjee). Back By Popular Demand at Yoshi's Jazz Club, Jack London Square, Monday, April 19, ...

"Parker... wrote the eight instrumental compositions on this exquisite collection of pieces that fuse Latin rhythms with influences from South America and India with a dash of straight-up American jazz. It’s an intoxicating blend of East and West performed by musicians of astounding virtuosity." — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL

“Parker and friends blend the rhythmic syncopations of Latin jazz music with the entrancing, asymmetrical meters of East Indian rhythms resulting in first-class world music. Intriguing melodies that draw musical inspirations from the tempos of Brazil, Cuba, India, and Spain make for an uplifting serene yet passionate musical journey into an ideal world.” - LATIN BEAT MAGAZINE

“Dazzling debut..

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Live in Concert

Ancient-Future.com Records
2017

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Sangria

Ancient-Future.com Records
2008

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