BML Teachers by Instrument & Topics

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Curtis Macdonald

Curtis Macdonald - Saxophonist & Composer

Primary Instrument: 
Alto Saxophone, Composition
Studio Neighborhood: 
Greenwood Heights
Convenient Subway Lines: 
D train
F train
N train
R train
Influences: 

Natural Phenomena.

Derek VanScoten

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DVS Sampler by Derek VanScoten

Primary Instrument: 
Guitar, Mandolin, Electric Bass, Tenor Banjo, Bouzouki, Ableton Live, DJ, Pro Tools
Studio Neighborhood: 
Park Slope
Convenient Subway Lines: 
2 train
3 train
B train
F train
G train
M train
Q train
R train
Influences: 

Any great rock guitarist / group, acoustic bands like the David Grisman Quintet and Solas, beat producers like The Roots and Flying Lotus, the beauty of classical music, the depth of jazz guitar, breathtaking song writing like James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Sufjan Stevens, the groove and tone of any Motown or Staxx era artists, the attitude of punk rock, the sensation of group improvisation and the voice of my wife.

John Licari

Primary Instrument: 
Sibelius
Studio Neighborhood: 
Upper East Side, Manhattan and Astoria, Queens
Convenient Subway Lines: 
6 train
L train
N train
W train
Influences: 
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Huey Lewis & The News, Bouncing Souls, NOFX, Strike Anywhere, Strung Out, The Police, The Gaslight Anthem, Propagandhi, Lagwagon, No Use For A Name, Fugazi, The Lawrence Arms, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Against Me!, Bad Astronaut, Dead Kennedys, Measured In Grey, The Vandals, Rise Against, Rancid, The Get Up Kids, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, John Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Geoffrey Burleson, J.S. Bach, L.V. Beethoven, Olivier Messiaen, Steve Reich, Erik Satie, Frederic Chopin, Motown Records, Fat Wreck Chords.

Sean Hutchinson

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Red Fish, Blue Fish, Dead Fish, Same Fish by Sean Hutchinson's Still Life

Primary Instrument: 
Drumset, Production, Piano
Studio Neighborhood: 
Carroll Gardens
Convenient Subway Lines: 
F train
G train
Influences: 
Drummers:
Peter Erskine, Brian Blade, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Matt Chamberlain, Jim Keltner, Dan Weiss, Glenn Kotche, Steve Jordan, Jeff Ballard, Max Roach, Eric Harland, Clarence Penn, Art Blakey
Producers:
Tucker Martine, Jon Brion, Daniel Lanois, Francis and the Lights, Justin Vernon, Chris Taylor, Tim Bluhm, Nigel Godrich, James Blake, Paul Kimble, Twin Shadow

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.