Cyro Baptista is a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 and world music

World music

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.

Born in São Paulo

São Paulo

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, Brazil

Brazil

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, Baptista arrived in the U.S. in 1980 with a scholarship to the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio. He has recorded and toured regularly with popular musicians and groups. Baptista creates many of the percussion instrument

Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

s he plays.

Recordings

Baptista recorded with pianist Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...

 on his 2005 release, Possibilities. In 2002 Baptista toured with Yo-Yo Ma’s

Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...

 Brazil Project and also appeared on the Obrigado Brazil

Obrigado Brazil

Obrigado Brazil is a music album by Yo-Yo Ma.In this context "Obrigado" means "thank you" in Portuguese. -Track listing:# "Cristal" – 02:49# "Chega de Saudade" – 04:16# "A Lenda Do Caboclo" – 03:10# "Doce De Coco" – 05:12...

album - winner of two Grammy awards. He also toured with Trey Anastasio

Trey Anastasio

Trey Anastasio is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish...

 of Phish

Phish

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 and John Zorn

John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...

. He recorded and performed worldwide with Herbie Hancock’s Grammy award winning Gershwin’s World. Baptista collaborated with Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

 and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra for a Brazilian Carnival modern jazz concert. For over two years, he toured with Paul Simon

Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...

's Rhythm of the Saints tour and appears on his Concert in Central Park release. He also toured worldwide with Sting in 2001.

Baptista has performed or recorded with many artists, including: Trey Anastasio

Trey Anastasio

Trey Anastasio is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish...

, Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...

, Derek Bailey, Gato Barbieri

Gato Barbieri

Leandro Barbieri , better known as Gato Barbieri , is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music...

, Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....

, Kathleen Battle

Kathleen Battle

Kathleen Battle , is an African-American operatic soprano known for her agile and light voice and her silvery, pure tone. Battle initially became known for her work within the concert repertoire through performances with major orchestras during the early and mid 1970s. She made her opera debut in...

, David Byrne

David Byrne (musician)

David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...

, Dr. John

Dr. John

Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...

, Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

, Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Lou Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals...

, Stephen Kent

Stephen Kent (musician)

Stephen Kent is a professional didgeridoo performer, percussionist, composer and recording artist.- Musical career :Kent's musical career has taken him across five continents, living at various times in the UK, Spain, East Africa, Australia and the USA...

, Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

, Bobby McFerrin

Bobby McFerrin

Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...

, Medeski Martin & Wood

Medeski Martin & Wood

Medeski Martin & Wood is an American jazz trio formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards and piano, Billy Martin on drums and percussion, and Chris Wood on double bass and bass guitar....

, Robert Palmer, Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana

Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...

, Tim Sparks

Tim Sparks

Tim Sparks is an American acoustic guitar player, singer, arranger and composer.- Biography:Raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he was given his first guitar when a bout of encephalitis kept him out of school for a year...

, Spyro Gyra

Spyro Gyra

Spyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the genre...

, Sting, James Taylor

James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....

, Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is currently music director of the San Francisco Symphony, and artistic director of the New World Symphony Orchestra.-Early years:...

, Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...

, and John Zorn

John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...

. He has also played with many noted Brazilian artists such as Badi Assad

Badi Assad

Badi Assad is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist in the jazz and worldbeat genres.She was born in the state of São Paulo, but grew up in Rio de Janeiro until she was twelve...

, Ivan Lins

Ivan Lins

Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz for over 30 years. His first hit, Madalena, was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. Beyond his own performance of his compositions, Simone is his most...

, Marisa Monte

Marisa Monte

Marisa de Azevedo Monte is a Brazilian popular singer. As of 2011, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide.- Biography :...

, Milton Nascimento

Milton Nascimento

-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...

, Nana Vasconcelos

Naná Vasconcelos

Naná Vasconcelos is a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, most notable for his works with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismonti, and Gato Barbieri....

 and Caetano Veloso

Caetano Veloso

Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...

.

Baptista has performed on five Grammy award winning albums: Yo-Yo Ma’s Obrigado Brazil, Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her...

’s Blue Light 'Til Dawn

Blue Light 'til Dawn

Blue Light 'til Dawn is a studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. Her first album on the Blue Note label, it was released in 1993. It contains Wilson's interpretations of songs by various blues and rock artists, as well as three original compositions.-Reception:Rolling Stone reviewer...

, The Chieftains

The Chieftains

The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...

’ Santiago

The Chieftains

The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...

, Ivan Lins

Ivan Lins

Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz for over 30 years. His first hit, Madalena, was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. Beyond his own performance of his compositions, Simone is his most...

’ A Love Affair, and Herbie Hancock’s Gershwin’s World. A documentary on Baptista’s project, Beat the Donkey, recorded for the WGBH-TV Boston program ‘La Plaza’, won 3 New England EMMY Awards in 2002.

Baptista appeared in Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel's 1990 documentary film on Fred Frith

Fred Frith

Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew...

, Step Across the Border

Step Across the Border

Step Across the Border is a 1990 avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. It was written and directed by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel and released in Germany and Switzerland...

. He has also composed music for programs on the children's television network Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

.

Beat the Donkey

Baptista formed Beat the Donkey, a percussion and dance ensemble in 2002. The group released its second CD, Love the Donkey on John Zorn

John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...

's independent Tzadik

Tzadik Records

Tzadik Records is a record label based in New York City specialising in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by the eclectic composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995; Zorn is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases...

 record label in 2005.

His debut self-titled CD with Beat the Donkey (Tzadik Records) was picked by Jon Pareles of The New York Times as one of the ten best alternative albums of 2002. Readers of JAZZIZ and DRUM magazine voted it as “Best Brazilian CD of the Year” and named him "Best Percussionist of 2002." Downbeat Magazine’s 51st annual critics’ poll selected Baptista as ‘Rising Star’ in percussion.

Other solo releases

Baptista's first solo recording in 1997, Villa Lobos/Vira Loucos, is a mix of his own compositions with the work of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...

. It was called "the most courageous, bright, funny, dramatic, and imaginative work in recent memory."

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 released Supergenerous, a duo CD recorded with guitarist Kevin Breit (KD Lang, Cassandra Wilson). Billboard called Supergenerous "pure aural pleasure" and the Washington Post noted it "a marvelous debut that manages to feel outside and intimate at the same time."

Baptista conducts educational "rhythm workshops" in a variety of formats. He has provided presentations for a range of audiences, from elementary school children to professional musicians.

He has conducted workshops and master classes at numerous institutions throughout the world. These include Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

 (Boston, MA), The New School

The New School

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 (New York City), Drummer's Collective (New York City), Mannes College of Music

Mannes College of Music

Mannes College The New School for Music is The New School university's music conservatory. While the university's main campus is located in Greenwich Village, New York City, Mannes maintains its main academic building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan....

 (New York City), New World Symphony Orchestra

New World Symphony Orchestra

The New World Symphony is the United States' only full-time orchestral academy preparing musicians for careers in symphony orchestras and ensembles...

 (Miami, FL) and Rimon School of Music (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

Discography

• 2009: Infinito - Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits (Tzadik)
• 2008: Banquet of the Spirits - Cyro Baptista (Tzadik)
• 2005: Love the Donkey - Cyro Baptista & Beat the Donkey (Tzadik)
• 2004: Beat the Donkey Beat - Cyro Baptista & Beat the Donkey (Out of My Mind Music)
• 2002: Beat the Donkey - Cyro Baptista & Beat the Donkey (Tzadik)
• 2000: Supergenerous - Cyro Baptista & Kevin Breit
  Kevin Breit
  Kevin Breit is a guitar player from McKerrow, Ontario. His group, The Sisters Euclid, has been a fixture at the Orbit Room in Toronto for the past 13 years. Breit has worked as a session musician with a variety of musicians including The Miller Stain Limit, Norah Jones, Michael Kaeshammer, Celine...
  
   (Blue Note)
• 1997: Villa-Lobos/Vira-Loucos - Cyro Baptista (Avant)

Recordings As Guest Performer (by Artist)

• Geri Allen
  Geri Allen
  Geri Allen is an American composer/pianist educator jazz pianist, raised in Detroit, Michigan, and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. Allen has worked with many of the greats of modern music, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette,...
  
   - Eyes in the Back of your Head . Blue Note 1997
• Trey Anastasio
  Trey Anastasio
  Trey Anastasio is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish...
  
   - Bar 17. Rubber Jungle Records 2006
• Trey Anastasio - Shine. Elektra 2005
• Trey Anastasio - Plasma. Elektra 2003
• Trey Anastasio - "Alive Again. Electra 2002
• Gabriela Anders
  Gabriela Anders
  Gabriela Anders is an Argentine singer and pianist, specializing in soul, jazz and Latin. Her debut album was Wanting from 1998, including tracks as "You Know What It's Like", "Wanting" and "I'll Be Loving You"...
  
   - Wanting. Warner Brothers 1998
• Laurie Anderson
  Laurie Anderson
  Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
  
   - Strange Angels. Warner 1994
• Laurie Anderson - Bright Red. Warner 1994
• Peter Apfelbaum
  Peter Apfelbaum
  Peter Apfelbaum is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, tenor saxophonist, drummer and composer born in Berkeley, California. He first emerged on the jazz scene in the late 1970s, performing with Carla Bley from 1978–1982 and touring with Warren Smith and Karl Berger. Around this time Apfelbaum...
  
   and the New York Hieroglyphics - It Is Written. The ACT Company 2005
• Wilson Asfora - Journey To The Badlands. WTA 1996
• Badi Assad
  Badi Assad
  Badi Assad is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist in the jazz and worldbeat genres.She was born in the state of São Paulo, but grew up in Rio de Janeiro until she was twelve...
  
   - Rhythms. Chesky 1995
• Susana Baca
  Susana Baca
  Susana Esther Baca de la Colina is a prominent Peruvian singer-songwriter; two-times Latin Grammy Award winner. She has been a key figure in the revival of Afro-Peruvian music within Peru....
  
   - Eco de Sombras. Luaka Bop 2000
• Derek Bailey & Cyro Baptista - Cyro. Incus 1987
• Derek Bailey & Cyro Baptista - Derek. Amulet 2006
• Gato Barbieri
  Gato Barbieri
  Leandro Barbieri , better known as Gato Barbieri , is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music...
  
   - Que Pasa. Sony 1997
• Daniel Barenboim
  Daniel Barenboim
  Daniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....
  
   - Brazilian Rhapsody. Teldec 2000
• Kathleen Battle
  Kathleen Battle
  Kathleen Battle , is an African-American operatic soprano known for her agile and light voice and her silvery, pure tone. Battle initially became known for her work within the concert repertoire through performances with major orchestras during the early and mid 1970s. She made her opera debut in...
  
   - So Many Stars. Sony 1995
• Tony Bennett
  Tony Bennett
  Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
  
   - Duets. RPM Records/Columbia 2006
• Ronnie Bird
  Ronnie Bird
  Ronnie Bird, born Ronald Méhu, is a French singer born in Boulogne-sur-Seine on the 24 April 1946. As a student, he attended lycée Claude Bernard until he had an argument with a teach. He debuted his recording career in 1964 with Decca, with the title track Adieu à un ami, which was a homage to...
  
   - One World. PEM 1992
• Chris Botti
  Chris Botti
  Christopher Stephen "Chris" Botti , is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2007, Botti was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album. On December 4, 2009, he was nominated for three more Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Long Form Music Video...
  
   - First Wish. Verve 1995
• Edie Brickel - Picture Perfect Morning. Geffen 1994
• David Byrne
  David Byrne (musician)
  David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...
  
   - Rei Momo. Warner Bros. 1989
• James Carter
  James Carter (musician)
  James Carter is an American jazz musician.Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan and learned to play there before moving to New York City. He has been prominent as a performer and recording artist on the jazz scene since the mid-1990s, playing saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet...
  
   - Chasin' the Gypsy. Atlantic 2000
• Tommy Cecil - Samba For Felix. Slider 1999
• Toni Cedras - Vision Over People. Gorilla 1994
• The Chieftains
  The Chieftains
  The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...
  
   - Santiago. BMG Classics 1996 - Grammy Winner
• Holly Cole
  Holly Cole
  Holly Cole is a Canadian jazz singer, particularly popular in Canada and Japan for both her versatile and distinctive voice, along with her adventurous repertoire, which spans such divergent genres as show tunes, rock, and country music.-Holly Cole Trio:In 1983, Cole travelled to Toronto to seek a...
  
   - Temptations. Metro Blue 1995
• Criara - Behind The Sky. EMI 1997
• Corin Curschellas - Voices Of Romantsch. MGB 1997/1996
• Dominique Dalcan
  Dominique Dalcan
  Dominique Dalcan is a French electronic musician and film composer.He was born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon.He collaborated with French musician Hector Zazou on his "Sahara Blue" album, alongside Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto....
  
   - Ostinato. Island 1998
• Dip in the Pool
  Dip in the Pool
  "Dip in the Pool" is a macabre short story by Roald Dahl that was originally published in the 19 January 1952 edition of The New Yorker. It later appeared in the 1953 collection Someone Like You.-Plot summary:...
  
   - The Sea Of Serenity. Epic/Sony 1993
• Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness. Tzadik 2005
• Electric Masada - 4. Tzadik 2004
• Manfred Fest - Oferenda. Concord 1993
• Fobia
  Fobia
  Fobia is a Mexican rock band from Mexico City, whose career started in 1987, a time when there wasn't much promotion of Mexican rock bands.In December 1987, RCA Ariola de México promoted a famous battle of amateur rock bands: "Rock en tu idioma"...
  
   - Leche. BMG Mexico 1993
• Serge Gainsbourg
  Serge Gainsbourg
  Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...
  
   - Great Jewish Music
  Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg
  Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg is a tribute album featuring the music of French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. Executive-produced by John Zorn, it was released on Tzadik Records in 1997 as part of their series on "Radical Jewish Culture"....
  
  . Tzadik 1998
• Gibran - Dialogos Intestinales. Urukungolo 2001
• Janet Grice - The Muse. Optimism 1989
• Andy Haas - Arnhem Land. Avant 1997
• Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
  
   - Possibilities. Starbucks 2005 - Grammy Nominated
• Herbie Hancock - Gershwin's World. Verve 1998 - Grammy Winner
• Janis Ian
  Janis Ian
  Janis Ian is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century...
  
   - Hunger. Windham Hill 1997
• Janis Ian - Revenge. Boomerang 1995
• Javon Jackson
  Javon Jackson
  Javon Jackson is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He played in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1987 until Blakey's death in 1990, and has also played with the Harper Brothers, Benny Green, Freddie Hubbard and Elvin Jones...
  
   - Good People. Blue Note 1997
• Javon Jackson - For One Who Knows. Blue Note 1995
• Bob James
  Bob James (musician)
  Robert McElhiney James is a jazz keyboardist, arranger and producer.-Biography:During the 1970s, Bob James played a major role in establishing the smooth jazz genre. "Angela", the instrumental theme from the sitcom Taxi, is probably Bob James' most well-known work to date...
  
   - Playin' Hooky. Warner 1998
• Dr. John
  Dr. John
  Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...
  
   - Duke Elegant. Blue Note 2000
• Richard Leo Johnson - Language. Blue Note 2000
• Geoff Keezer
  Geoff Keezer
  Geoffrey Keezer, born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA on November 20, 1970, is a jazz pianist. Born into a musical family, with both parents teaching music, he began studying piano at the age of three. In 1989, at the age of 18, after completing his first year at the Berklee College of Music,...
  
   - Turn Up the Quiet. Sony 1997
• Bar Kokhba Sextet
  Bar Kokhba Sextet
  Bar Kokhba Sextet brings together six core members of the Masada family under the leadership of John Zorn. The music act is a dynamic powerhouse full of mysticism and intoxicating improvisation from New York's best downtown artists which includes Cyro Baptista on percussion, Marc Ribot on guitar,...
  
   - Bar Kokhba. Tzadik 2005
• Arto Lindsay
  Arto Lindsay
  Arthur Morgan Lindsay is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He is a 1974 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida....
  
   - Mundo Civilizado. Bar/None 1996
• Ivan Lins
  Ivan Lins
  Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz for over 30 years. His first hit, Madalena, was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. Beyond his own performance of his compositions, Simone is his most...
  
   - A Love Affair. Telarc 2000 - Grammy Winner
• Frank London
  Frank London
  Frank London is a New York City-based trumpeter, bandleader, and composer active in klezmer and world music. He also plays various other wind instruments and keyboards, and occasionally sings backup vocals. With The Klezmatics, he won a Grammy award in Contemporary World Music for "Wonder Wheel...
  
   - Science at Work. Tzadik 2002
• Lionel Loueke
  Lionel Loueke
  Lionel Loueke is a guitarist born in the west African country of Benin. He moved to Ivory Coast in 1990 to study at the National Institute of Art. He attended the American School of Modern Music in Paris, France from 1994-1998...
  
   - Virgin Forest. ObliqSound 2007
• Romero Lubambo
  Romero Lubambo
  Romero Lubambo is a Brazilian jazz guitar player.Romero Lubambo started learning classic piano at a very early age...
  
   - Brazilian Nights. Q Records 2001
• Yo-Yo Ma
  Yo-Yo Ma
  Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...
  
   - Obrigado Brazil Live in Concert. Sony 2004 - Grammy Winner
• Yo-Yo Ma - Obrigado Brasil. Sony Classical 2003
• Maureen MacGovern - Out Of This World. Sterling 1996
• Chuck Mangione
  Chuck Mangione
  Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.-Early life and career:...
  
   - The Hat's Back. Gates Music 1994
• Herbie Mann
  Herbie Mann
  Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music...
  
   - Opalescence. Kokopelli 1994
• Billy Martin
  Billy Martin
  Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr. was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times...
  
   - Socket. Amulet 2005
• Billy Martin - Drop the Needle/ Illy B Eats. Amulet 2002
• Nilson Matta
  Nilson Matta
  Nilson Matta is a premier Brazilian bassist and composer. He has been based in New York City since 1985. He is also known for his work with Trio Da Paz, Don Pullen African Brazilian Connection, Joe Henderson, Yo Yo Ma and Nilson Matta's Brazilian Voyage....
  
   - Walking With My Bass. Blue Toucan Music 2006
• Bobby McFerrin
  Bobby McFerrin
  Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
  
   - Beyond Words. Blue Note 2002
• Hendrik Meurkens - In a Sentimental Mood. A Records 1999
• Jason Miles - Miles to Miles. Narada 2005
• Jason Miles - Music Of Weather Report. Telarc 2000
• Marisa Monte
  Marisa Monte
  Marisa de Azevedo Monte is a Brazilian popular singer. As of 2011, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide.- Biography :...
  
   - Mais. EMI 1994
• Jean-Louis Murat
  Jean-Louis Murat
  Not to be confused with Jean-Paul MaratJean-Louis Murat is the pseudonym of the French singer / songwriter Jean-Louis Bergheaud. He spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Murat-le-Quaire.- Albums :...
  
   - Mustang. Virgin/France 1999
• New York Voices
  New York Voices
  New York Voices is an American vocal music group. The group was formed in 1987 from an Ithaca College alumni group. The original group consisted of Darmon Meader, Peter Eldridge, Kim Nazarian, Caprice Fox and Sara Krieger. They released their first, self-titled album on GRP Records in 1989...
  
   - NYV Sings Paul Simon. BMG 1997
• Ojoyo - Ojoyo Plays SafroJazz. Ojoyo 2002
• Ojoyo - Forward Motion. Ojoyo 1996
• Robert Palmer - Don't Explain. EMI 1989
• Robert Palmer - Ridin' High. EMI 1992
• Clara Ponty
  Clara Ponty
  Clara Ponty is a French pianist, vocalist and pop and jazz composer.-Early life:Ponty is the daughter of jazz violinist and composer Jean-Luc Ponty. Born in Paris but living in Los Angeles since age four, she began studying violin and piano at the age of five. By the time she was eight, she had...
  
   - The Embrace. Phillips 1999
• Howard Prince - Double Take. Cat's Paw 1997
• Paul Rebhan
  Paul Rebhan
  Paul Rebhan is an author, musician, and artist living in New York City. He is known for hanging one of his own paintings in the Museum of Modern Art, and as the inventor of Quiet Parties, also called Silent Dating, where people communicate by writing notes instead of speaking...
  
   - Colors. Carmel/BMG 1991
• Paula Robison - Rio Days, Rio Nights". Arabesque 1998
• Paula Robison - Brasileirinho. Omega 1993
• Gabrielle Roth
  Gabrielle Roth
  Gabrielle Roth is a musician, author, music director, dancer, philosopher and recording artist in the world music and trance dance genres, with a special interest in shamanism. Known as the "urban shaman", she is music director of the theatre company The Mirrors and has been a member of the...
  
   - Tribe. Raven 2000
• Gabrielle Roth - Zone Unknown. Raven 1997
• Gabrielle Roth - Tongues. Raven 1995
• Philippe Saisse
  Philippe Saisse
  Philippe Saisse is a French Grammy Award-nominated Smooth Jazz and New Age music keyboardist, producer and arranger.He was born in Marseille and raised in Paris. After studying at the Conservatoire de Paris he won a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music. He became the protege of Gary Burton...
  
   - Next Voyage. Verve 1997
• Peter Scherer - Cronologia. Tzadik 1996
• Peter Scherer - Very Neon Pet. Metro Blue /Capitol 1995
• Paul Shaffer
  Paul Shaffer
  Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's sidekick since 1982.-Early years:...
  
   - The World's Most Dangerous Party. SBK 1993
• Paul Simon
  Paul Simon
  Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...
  
   - Concert in the Park. Warner 1991
• The Sisters of Glory - Good News In Hard Times. Warner 1995
• Phoebe Snow - I Can't Complain. House Of Blues 1998
• Tim Sparks
  Tim Sparks
  Tim Sparks is an American acoustic guitar player, singer, arranger and composer.- Biography:Raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he was given his first guitar when a bout of encephalitis kept him out of school for a year...
  
   - At the Rebbe's Table. Tzadik 2002
• Tim Sparks - Tanz
  Tanz (album)
  Tanz is the second recording by American guitarist Tim Sparks on the Tzadik Records label, released in 2000. "Tanz" is Yiddish for "dance."-History:...
  
  . Tzadik 2000
• Spyro Gyra
  Spyro Gyra
  Spyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the genre...
  
   - Dreams Beyond Control. GRP 1996
• Spyro Gyra - The Deep End. Heads Up International 2004
• Richard Stoltzman
  Richard Stoltzman
  Richard Stoltzman is an American clarinetist. Born Richard Leslie Stoltzman in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent his early years in San Francisco, California and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from Woodward High School in 1960. Today, Stoltzman is part of the faculty list at the New England Conservatory...
  
   - World Beat Bach. BMG - 2000
• Richard Stoltzman - Danza Latina. BMG - 1998
• Bob Telson
  Bob Telson
  Robert "Bob" Eria Telson is an American composer, songwriter, and pianist best known for his work in musical theater and film, for which he has received Tony, Pulitzer, and Academy Award nominations. He is currently living and working in Argentina.-Biography:Robert Eria Telson was born in Cannes,...
  
   - La Vida Segun Muriel. VCC Polygram 1998
• Bob Telson - Calling You. Warner 1993
• Trilogia - Wheels Within Wheels. TDK/Japan 1992
• Trio Da Paz
  Trio da Paz
  Trio da Paz are a Brazilian jazz group, one of the most visible in the world.Formed in 1986, they consist of Romero Lubambo on guitar, Nilson Matta on bass and Duduka da Fonseca on drums and percussion....
  
   - Black Orpheus. Kokopelli 1994
• Nana Vasconcelos
  Naná Vasconcelos
  Naná Vasconcelos is a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, most notable for his works with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismonti, and Gato Barbieri....
  
   - Fragments - Modern Tradition. Tzadik 1997
• Nana Vasconcelos - Rain Dance. Island 1989
• Grover Washington, Jr.
  Grover Washington, Jr.
  Grover Washington, Jr. was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist. Along with George Benson, John Klemmer, David Sanborn, Bob James, Chuck Mangione, Herb Alpert, and Spyro Gyra, he is considered by many to be one of the founders of the smooth jazz genre.He wrote some of his material and...
  
   - To Grover with Love. Atlantic 2001
• Grover Washington, Jr. - Soulful Strut. Columbia
• Kazumi Watanbe - Mo' Bop III. Hybrid Records 2006
• David Watson
  David Watson
  David Watson may refer to:*Dave Watson , actor and playwright*David Watson , anarchist author*David Watson *David Watson , Australian Senator...
  
   (with Beat the Donkey) - Skirl. Avant 1999
• Mark Weinstein - Jazz World Trios. LKC 1998
• Cassandra Wilson
  Cassandra Wilson
  Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her...
  
   - Belly of The Sun. Blue Note 2002
• Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter. Blue Note 1995
• Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light 'Til Dawn. Blue Note 1993 - Grammy Winner
• Tom Z - The Hips Of Tradition. Luaka Bop
• John Zorn
  John Zorn
  John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
  
  - Film Works XII / Three Documentaries. Tzadik 2002
• John Zorn - Cobra/ Game Pieces Vol II..Tzadik 2002
• John Zorn - The Gift. Tzadik 2001
• John Zorn - Film Works X. Tzadik 2001
• John Zorn - Taboo and Exile. Tzadik 2000
• John Zorn - Film Works IX/ Trembling Before G-d. Tzadik 2000
• John Zorn - The Circle Maker. Tzadik 1998
• John Zorn - Film Works IV/ S &M Works. Tzadik1997
• John Zorn - Film Works VII/ Cynical Hysterie Hour. Tzadik 1997
• John Zorn - Film Works II/ Walter Hill. Tzadik 1996
• John Zorn - Film Works 1986-1990. Tzadik 1996
• John Zorn - Film Works V/ Tear Of Ecstasy. Tzadik 1996
• John Zorn - Film Works VI/1996. Tzadik 1996
• John Zorn - Film Works III/ 1990-1995. Nonesuch 1992
• John Zorn - The Big Gundown. Nonesuch 1986
• John Zorn - Bar Kokhba: Masada Chamber Ensembles - Tzadik 3 CD Boxset

External links

• Cyro Baptista's Official Website
• Video Clip of Beat the Donkey (Quicktime format)
• Cyro Baptista Email List
• MP3 Audio Clip of "Anarrié" from Beat the Donkey's 2005 CD