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The Fareed Haque Group at the Green Mill, January 12th-13th |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
 Fareed Haque
Guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque enjoys a career that spans the spectrum of
musical styles. Moving easily between jazz and classical guitar,
Fareed's versatility has created a demand for him with prominent jazz
and classical artists including Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Holland, Sting,
Joe Henderson, Joe Zawinul, Javon Jackson, Cassandra Wilson, Kurt
Elling, Lester Bowie, Arturo Sandoval, Robert Walter, Carl Denson,
Medeski, Martin and Wood, Kahil el Zabar, Defunckt, Ramsey Lewis, Nigel
Kennedy, Edgar Meyer, Robert Conant, , Stephen Stubbs, Frank Bungarten,
members of the Vermeer Quartet and many symphony orchestras in the U.S.
and abroad. He has performed all of the major guitar concertos, is an
active transcriber of baroque as well as South American music.
Born in 1963 to Pakistani father and Chilean mother, extensive travels,
especially long stays in Spain, France, Iran, Pakistan and Chile,
exposed Haque to different musics from a very early age. This natural
eclecticism has become the hallmark of Fareed's music.
The 1981
Recipient of North Texas State University's Jazz Guitar Scholarship,
Haque spent a year studying with renowned jazz guitarist and pedagogue
Jack Peterson. Fareed's growing interest in the classical guitar led
him to transfer to Northwestern University, where he completed his
studies in classical guitar under David Buch, John Holmquist and Anne
Waller.
In 2001 Fareed co-founded the jam super-group Garaj Mahal, joined
George Brooks' group Summit, featuring Zakir Hussein and Steve Smith
and continues to record and tour with the Fareed Haque Group. More
recently Fareed has become a staple of the 'Jamband' scene and was
voted 'Most Valuable Player' at the 2002 High Sierra Music Festival.
In 2004 Fareed composed and performed his Lahara Double Concerto for
Sitar/Guitar and Tabla. The work was premiered by The Chicago
Sinfonietta, under the baton of maestro Paul Freeman, at Orchestra Hall
in Chicago, featuring tabla virtuoso Ustad Zakir Hussain, to whom the
work is dedicated. 2005 promises even more activity as a composer.
Fareed has been commissioned to compose a classical guitar concerto for
the Fulcrum Point Ensemble, to premiere May 06.
Jon Paul has been an integral
part of the Fareed Haque Group since 1994 and can be heard on the
BlueNote releases Opaque and Déjà vu. Aside from his work
with Fareed, Jon has also performed with Danilo Perez, Fred Simon,
Howard Levy, Jim Snidero and Louis Bellson. An alumnus of Indiana
University at Bloomington, he is currently on the faculty of
Benedictine University.
Dan Leali is a Chicago native.
Dan began playing drums at the age of ten. He began performing
professionally while still in high school, and served as section leader
of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony, performing as a soloist with the
ensemble. A graduate of the DePaul University School of Music, Dan has
toured, performed and recorded with such artists as the performance
art/music/multi media troupe The Blue Man Group; Mark Rivera (Billy
Joel, Foreigner, Peter Gabriel), Frank Catalano; Blues men Pinetop
Perkins and John Primer and jazz/funk group Liquid Soul, receiving a
Grammy Nomination for his performance on the band's 2000 recording,
"Here's the Deal".
A native of the Chicago area, Rob
Clearfield has had the privilege of a very diverse musical
background. Since high school, Rob has shown an interest in many styles
of music, studying and performing jazz, gospel, rock, hip-hop,
classical and afro-latin. After a brief period of study at the Chicago
College of Performing Arts, Clearfield has enjoyed a successful career
as a performer, working professionally with such artists as Juma
Santos, Corey Wilkes, Ernest Dawkins, and Walt Whitman and the Soul
Children of Chicago. In addition to his work with Fareed, Clearfield is
also an active composer. His original music can be heard in the
jazz/indie rock group Information Superhighway, whose debut recording
is due for release fall 2007.
Salar Nader, of Afghan origin,
was in born on June 20th, 1981 in Hamburg, Germany. It was in his early
months of life when his mother and father noticed his passion for the
tabla. No matter where Salar was, he had to bring along his personal
tabla set, which his father bought for him when he was 6 months old.
When Salar was 3 years old his parents moved from Hamburg, Germany to
Queens, New York where Salar began playing at family parties. According
to his parents, he would weep over the tabla while others were
performing. At the age of 7 Salar attended his first tabla class in
Berkeley, CA. The instructor of the class, Ustad Zakir Hussain, who is
now Salar's Guru is a world renowned master of the Tabla. While Salar
continued his guidance under legendary tabla maestro Ustad Zakir
Hussain, he was rapidly progressing from beginning to advanced levels.
In 2003, Salar traveled to India where he had the opportunity to study
tabla in Mumbai and attend many major music festivals in India. At the
age of 22, Salar began teaching young aspiring tabla players. At San
Francisco State University, he began to accompany Pandit Chitresh Das
during his Kathak class. Salar was invited to Pandit Ji's school to
practice and also accompany principle dancers in the Cchandam Dance
Company.
Jim Feist has been performing
and studying tabla for the last 16 years. He has traveled to India
several times to learn tabla from the late, legendary Ustad Allah
Rakha, and Vibhav Nageshkar. For the last 6 years he has been under the
tutelage of Ustad Allah Rakha's celebrated disciple, Yogesh Samsi. He
has also studied from Sukvinder Singh Namdhari, Samir Chatterji, Anand
Badamakar, and a handful of other notable players representing most of
the main tabla gharanas. He has also shared a close relationship with
the illustrious Sunayana Hazarilal the presidential award winning
Kathak dancer from Bombay and has learned much in this style also. As
an educator Jim has held very successful clinics and lec/dems all over
the mid-west in colleges and high schools. He has been a featured
clinician at Marshall University and has lectured at Taylor University
among many others. He has had successful solos at Washington
University, and Indiana University to name a few. He teaches privately
in Dayton and Cincinnati Ohio. In 2006 he was awarded the prestigious
performing arts grant from the American Institute of Indian Studies and
the Smithsonian Institute to continue his tutelage in India for an
extended period of time.
The Fareed Haque Group performs at Chicago's Green Mill on January 12th
and 13th, starting at 9:00 pm on Saturday and 8:00 pm on Satruday. The
Green Mill Jazz Club is located at 4802 N. Broadway Ave., Chicago, IL
60640, 773.878.5552.
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