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Kiko Sebrian

Kiko Sebrian is a drummer and percussionist that studied at Tatuí's Conservatory (SP/Brazil), Bachelor of Popular Music at Unicamp (SP/Brazil) and was also an exchange student for the project FIPSE/CAPES at the University of Cincinnati in 2012.

Since 2005 has been working professionally in various settings and styles, specializing in Brazilian Popular Music, Jazz,Brazilian Instrumental Music and Experimental. He has already worked with artists such as Vinicius Dorin and Vania Bastos. From 2010 to 2015 was a member of the group Lê Coelho e os Urubus Malandros, recording the album Um Samba a Mais, with special participation of Zeca Baleiro and Vania Bastos, making its release in Argentina and later, shows in various cities of Brazil. Also participated in the solo disc recording of Lê Coelho Tuvalu (2014). He participated in the Orquestra de Choro Campineira, an ensemble that approaches the traditional brazilian genre of choro in a contemporary way. In 2015, the first album of the group of Brazilian Instrumental Music Espinho de Limoeiro was released, group in which Kiko works since 2006. ​ In 2017 he received his masters degree in Jazz Performance from the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program at the University of Louisville. ​ Kiko is currently based in Louisville, KY, USA.

Kiko endorses: Canopus Drums and Dream Cymbals

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John La Barbera Big Band: Grooveyard

Read "Grooveyard" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Composer/arranger John La Barbera has been at the top of his game for more than half a century, and Grooveyard is simply another example of his undiminished artistry. Besides arranging everything--superbly, as always--La Barbera wrote six of the session's ten charming songs, escorting other treasures by Carl Perkins, Dave Brubeck, Curtis Fuller and Elvin Jones. As he writes his handsome and colorful big-band charts, La Barbera is always careful to observe Rule No. 1: they have to ...

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The John La Barbera Big Band: Grooveyard

Read "Grooveyard" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


The geometry, if you will, of a terrific big band recording is such that the three major elements--the players, the arrangements, and the performance--balance in every regard. Grooveyard from the John La Barbera Big Band is such an offering. The album features ten masterfully selected, arranged, and performed selections, each containing outstanding section, solo, and ensemble playing. Wes Montgomery's “Grooveyard" launches a hip, swinging first course in which tenor man Pat La Barbera and guitarist Brandon Coleman ...

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Grooveyard

Origin Records
2023

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Independent
2016

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