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| Paul van Wageningen (2009) | |
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| Drummer Paul van Wageningen was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory before moving to New York City in order be closer to the American scene. Since he moved to the Bay Area in 1979, he’s been a member of innumerable groups, including those of Andy Narell, Pete Escovedo, and Ray Obiedo, as well as being part of Mark Levine and the Latin Tinge, and John Santos and the Machete Ensemble. He also works outside the jazz and Afro-Cuban scene, appearing on recordings across a wide range of genres, among them blues, inside, outside, free jazz, rock, pop, funk … the list is endless. On some of those recordings he shares rhythm duties with his bassist brother Marc, with whom he co-leads the VW Brothers Band. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
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| # 1 | John Coltrane | Olé | Olé | (Atlantic) |
| # 2 | Elvin Jones | Puttin' It Together | Gingerbread Boy | (Blue Note) |
| # 3 | Batacumbele | Con un Poco de Songo (LP) | Se Le Ve | (Tierrazo) |
| # 4 | Tower of Power | Back to Oakland (LP) | Oakland Stroke | (Warner Bros) |
| # 5 | James Brown | 20 All-Time Greatest Hits | Cold Sweat | (Polydor) |
| # 6 | Joe Zawinul and the Zawinul Syndicate | Vienna Nights: Live at Joe Zawinul's Birdland | Intro to a Mighty Theme | (BHM) |
| # 7 | Elis Regina | Elis (LP) | Amor Até O Fim | (Philips) |
| # 8 | Miles Davis | Nefertiti | Fall | (Columbia) |
| # 9 | Karim Ziad | Ifrikya | Aît Oumar | (ACT) |
| # 10 | Dafnis Prieto | Absolute Quintet | Afrotango | (Zoho) |
| Book | Arnon Grunberg, "Tirza" | |||
| Luxury Item | A private chef | |||
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26 Apr Ben Goldberg 01 Mar Lua Hadar 08 Mar | Molly Holm
19 Apr Remy Le Boeuf 15 Mar Stephanie Nakasian 18 Jan | Marlena Shaw
29 Mar Ben Sidran 12 Apr |