Live at the Poster Museum by Robby Ameen

Robby Ameen

Live at the Poster Museum

Format: CD
Label: Origin Records
UPC: 0805558290022
Catnr: ORIGIN 82900
Release date: 06 June 2025
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Label
Origin Records

UPC
0805558290022

Catalogue number
ORIGIN 82900

Release date
06 June 2025

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About the album

In the spirit of New York's loft scene of the '70s, master drummer Robby Ameen searched out performance alternatives when faced with the Covid shutdown. Tribeca's decades-old Philip Williams Poster shop offered space for Ameen to video teach, rehearse, and eventually present a weekly series in its expansive storefront, replete with the world's largest collection of vintage posters to warm the sounds. With his longtime band of Bob Franceschini, Conrad Herwig, Troy Roberts, Edsel Gomez, and Lincoln Goines in tow, Ameen created an intimate neighborhood salon, overflowing with fiery original Afro-Cuban music with deep strains of contemporary hard bop and funk. ‘Live at the Poster Museum’ was recorded and filmed during the last of the series' concerts, the musicians, volunteers, and audience all deeply owning the significant collective experience they created.

Im Geiste der New Yorker Loft-Szene der 70er Jahre suchte der Meistertrommler Robby Ameen nach alternativen Auftrittsmöglichkeiten, als er mit dem Covid-Shutdown konfrontiert wurde. Der jahrzehntealte Philip Williams Poster Shop in Tribeca bot Ameen Raum für Videokurse, Proben und schließlich für die Präsentation einer wöchentlichen Serie in seinem weitläufigen Laden, der mit der weltweit größten Sammlung von Vintage-Postern ausgestattet ist. Mit seiner langjährigen Band, bestehend aus Bob Franceschini, Conrad Herwig, Troy Roberts, Edsel Gomez und Lincoln Goines, schuf Ameen einen intimen Nachbarschaftssalon voller feuriger afro-kubanischer Originalmusik mit starken Einflüssen von zeitgenössischem Hard Bop und Funk. „Live at the Poster Museum“ wurde während des letzten Konzerts der Reihe aufgenommen und gefilmt, als die Musiker, die freiwilligen Helfer und das Publikum die wichtige kollektive Erfahrung verinnerlichten, die sie geschaffen hatten.

Artist(s)

Robby Ameen (drums)

Grammy Award-winning drummer Robby Ameen has lived in New York City since the early ’80s and has established a recording and touring career stretching from Dizzy Gillespie to Paul Simon, while maintaining a more than 20-year relationship with Latin icon Ruben Blades as a member of Los Seis del Solar.
Although he is of Lebanese origin, Ameen is best known for the unique and powerful Afro-Cuban jazz style he has developed. Other long-term musical relationships include Dave Valentin, Eddie Palmieri, Jack Bruce, Kip Hanrahan, and Conrad Herwig’s multi-Grammy nominated Latin Side All-stars.
He has recorded on over 200 records and played on numerous major film scores and television shows including the hit series Sex and the City.
As a leader, Ameen wrote, arranged, and produced his CDs Days in the Life and Days in the Night, the latter of which DownBeat magazine awarded 4 stars. His latest CD, Diluvio, was released in April 2020 on Origin Records and was a DownBeat Editor's Pick. As a co-leader he has recorded three records with the El Negro and Robby Band alongside drummer Horacio “el Negro” Hernandez. In addition he helped found the Latin-jazz power trio Overproof, and also made two latin-jazz records with Seis del Solar.
Robby is also featured in the PBS television series “Arab-American Stories” Episode 101.

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Robby Ameen (drums)

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Sonny Rollins

Walter Theodore 'Sonny' Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including 'St. Thomas', 'Oleo', 'Doxy', 'Pent-Up House', and 'Airegin', have become jazz standards. Rollins was born in New York City to parents from the United States Virgin Islands. The youngest of three siblings, he grew up in central Harlem and on Sugar Hill, Harlem, receiving his first alto saxophone at the age of seven or eight. He attended Edward W. Stitt Junior High School and graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem. He has said that a concert by Frank Sinatra at his high school, accompanied by a...

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", "Pent-Up House", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards. Rollins was born in New York City to parents from the United States Virgin Islands. The youngest of three siblings, he grew up in central Harlem and on Sugar Hill, Harlem, receiving his first alto saxophone at the age of seven or eight. He attended Edward W. Stitt Junior High School and graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem. He has said that a concert by Frank Sinatra at his high school, accompanied by a plea for racial harmony, changed his life. Rollins started as a pianist, changed to alto saxophone, and finally switched to tenor in 1946. During his high school years, he played in a band with other future jazz legends Jackie McLean, Kenny Drew and Art Taylor.

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