Editing Bill Summers

Jump to: navigation, search

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision Your text
Line 1: Line 1:
 
[[File:0.jpg|400px|thumbnail|left|Bill Summers speaking at the 'The Power of Music as Cultural Diplomacy' conference, October 15th, 2012]]
 
[[File:0.jpg|400px|thumbnail|left|Bill Summers speaking at the 'The Power of Music as Cultural Diplomacy' conference, October 15th, 2012]]
 
Bill Summers, born on June 27, 1948, is a former Detroit Observatory Student and a renowned Afro-Cuban/Latin Jazz percussionist and multi-instrumentalist, based in New Orleans.  
 
Bill Summers, born on June 27, 1948, is a former Detroit Observatory Student and a renowned Afro-Cuban/Latin Jazz percussionist and multi-instrumentalist, based in New Orleans.  
 
 
{| class="infobox vcard" style="border:1px solid grey; color:#000000; float:right; margin-left: 10px; " "width: 22em" >
 
! colspan="2" class="n" style="text-align: center; font-size: 132%;" | Bill Summers
 
|-
 
! colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | Artist
 
|-
 
| colspan="2" style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center" | In office
 
 
|-
 
! style="text-align:left;" | Known for
 
| The Headhunters' 2003
 
|-
 
! colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | Personal details
 
|-
 
! style="text-align:left;" | Born
 
|  27 June 1948
 
New Orleans, USA
 
|-
 
! style="text-align:left;" | Profession
 
| Jazz persussionist
 
|-
 
|}
 
  
 
==Biography==  
 
==Biography==  
Line 40: Line 17:
  
 
Bill Summers worked with the multi-award-winning group Los Hombres Calientes, with Quincy Jones on the musical score for Roots, contributed to the musical soundtracks of several movies including The Color Purple and participated in the prestigious Yoruba order of sacred drummers by Estaban “Cha Chhaa” Vega, the most celebrated and honoured drummer in Cuba. He is also a veteran of the Walter Payton Trio and Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and the Head of the “Summers Multi-Ethnic Institute of the Arts”.
 
Bill Summers worked with the multi-award-winning group Los Hombres Calientes, with Quincy Jones on the musical score for Roots, contributed to the musical soundtracks of several movies including The Color Purple and participated in the prestigious Yoruba order of sacred drummers by Estaban “Cha Chhaa” Vega, the most celebrated and honoured drummer in Cuba. He is also a veteran of the Walter Payton Trio and Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and the Head of the “Summers Multi-Ethnic Institute of the Arts”.
 
{| class="wikitable succession-box" style="margin: auto;" font-size:95%;clear:both;"<tbody>
 
! colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFBF00;" | Discography
 
|- style="text-align:center;"
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Feel the Heat (1977)
 
|-
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Cayenne (1977)
 
|-
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Straight to the Bank (1978)
 
|-
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | On Sunshine (1979)
 
|-
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Call it What You Want (1980)
 
|-
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Jam the Box (1981)
 
|-
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Seventeen (1982)
 
|-
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | London Style (1983)
 
|-
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Iroko (1992)
 
|-
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Essence of Kwanzaa (1997)
 
|-
 
| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Studies in Bata: Sacred Drum of the Yoruba, Havana to Matanzas (2002)
 
|-
 
|}
 
  
 
== Further information ==  
 
== Further information ==  

Please note that all contributions to iCulturalDiplomacy may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see iCulturalDiplomacy:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)