BML Teachers by Instrument & Topics

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Brandon Terzic

Primary Instrument: 
Electric and Nylon String Guitar, Oud, Saz
Studio Neighborhood: 
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Convenient Subway Lines: 
B train
Q train
S train
Influences: 

Paco De Lucia, Jimi Hendrix, Ali Farke Toure, Ry Cooder, Salif Kaita, Lionel Loueke, Kora Music, Oud Music, Gnawan

David Cieri

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Five Smooth Stones by David Cieri

Primary Instrument: 
Piano, Composition
Studio Neighborhood: 
Park Slope
Convenient Subway Lines: 
F train
G train
Influences: 
I am drawn to and heavily influenced by the sounds we tend to overlook/overhear. The grunts, groans, aches, cries of pleasure, joy, and pain that this beautiful and crippled city makes each day have a profound effect on how we are shaping ourselves internally and externally. How can we distill these "noises" which are so personal and simultaneously social and re gift them? Does giving them focus change the way we hear them? How can we plow these personal experiences into our shared musical history and past?

I am influenced by Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, Muddy Waters, Led Zeppelin, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, J.S. Bach, Chris Speed, John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier, Milford Graves, Mark Feldman, Erik Friedlander, Ernst Reijseger, Myra Melford, Marilyn Crispell, Iggy and the Stooges, Arvo Part, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Professor Longhair, Gygory Ligeti, Oliver Messiaen, Art Lande, George Crumb, Charles Mingus, Albert Ayler, Elliot Sharp, Elliot Carter, Washington Phillips, Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker, John Coltrane...

Etan Haziza

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Pershing Circle by Etan Haziza

Primary Instrument: 
Guitar, Classical Guitar, Jazz Guitar, Beginner Piano
Studio Neighborhood: 
Fort Greene
Convenient Subway Lines: 
A train
C train
B train
D train
G train
Q train
R train
Influences: 
Bach, Satie, Debussy, Django, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Bill Evans, Brad Mehldau, Beatles, Pearl Jam, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Q-Tip, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Paul Simon, Michael Jackson

Harvey Valdes

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Feeder Big Beat by Harvey Valdes

Primary Instrument: 
Guitar, Oud, Cumbus
Studio Neighborhood: 
Park Slope
Convenient Subway Lines: 
F train
G train
Influences: 
My musical tastes are always expanding and evolving ~ so much to listen to and learn from!

But some musicians that have been very important to me: Jimi Hendrix, John Frusciante, Joe Pass, Schoenberg,Ornette Coleman, Marc Ducret, Stravinsky,David Torn, Black Sabbath,Thelonious Monk, Tal Farlow, Miles Davis, Riad Al Sunbati, Jane's Addiction, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Page, Slayer, Tim Berne.

Just the tip of the iceberg here, so many to mention...

Luke Notary

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Pu'usa Taka by Luke Notary

Primary Instrument: 
Percussion, Drumset
Studio Neighborhood: 
Park Slope
Convenient Subway Lines: 
F train
G train
M train
R train
Influences: 

All 5000 years of drumming tradition, and...

Sekou Diabate, Steve Gadd, Jamie Haddad, Jimmy Branly, Brian Blade, Clyde Stubblefield, Zakir Hussein, Hamza El Din, Swapan Chaudhuri, Herbie Hanckock, Nigel Olsen, Ricky Lawson, Trilok Gurtu, Giovanni Hidalgo, Hossam Ramzy, Jeff “Tain” Watts, “Benogo” Diakite, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Adama Diarra, Francisco Mela, and many more...

Tom Chess

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La Fumbo by Tom Chess

Primary Instrument: 
Oud, Turkish / Arabic Ney, Flute, Guitar, Tenor Saxophone
Studio Neighborhood: 
SoHo, Manhattan
Convenient Subway Lines: 
1 train
2 train
4 train
6 train
A train
C train
E train
N train
R train
Influences: 
Life, Love, Space, Silence, 'The World', City Sounds, Nature Sounds / Rhythms, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, James Brown, Public Enemy, P-funk, Bad Brains, Chili Peppers, Prince, Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Howling Wolf, Son House, Sly Stone, Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Albert Ayler, Anthony Braxton, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Dewey Redman, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Butch Morris, Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Diamanda Galas, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, The Allman Brothers, Riad el Sunbati, Munir Bashir, Oud music in general, Suleyman & Kudsi Erguner, Sufi Mevlevi whirling dervish music, Sufism, Gnawa music, Ali Farka Touré, Ali Akbar Khan, West African drumming, Kora music, Mbira musics, Pygmy song, Gamelan musics, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Peter Tosh, Sacred Geometry, Al-kemi, number theory, phi, Hafiz, Rumi, Tibetan Buddhism, Yoga, Monty Python, Schwaller de Lubicz, Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Jean Michel Basquiat, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joan Miro, Van Gogh, Giorgio di Chirico, William Gibson, the kazoo guy and mice elf of course.