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Will Calhoun
Dorita
Life in This World
w/ Herb Alpert*
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We’re a band of nerds.
THE HEART OF LIVING COLOUR
LiIvViInNgG coOlLoOuUrR
Vernon Reid (G.UITAR)
Corey Glover (V.OCALS)
Will Calhoun (D.RUMS)
Muzz Skillings (1985-1992)
Doug Wimbish (B.ASS)
A rhythmic and impactful force in Living Colour’s always electrifying and soulful live shows. Will is credited as a writer, producer, and player, on all the band’s recordings. Albums, records, Eps, mix tapes, CDs, Video, and digital whatevers:
WILL CALHOUN [PT2]
Bronx, New York
Berklee School of Music
Boston, Mass
Bachelor of Science (Music)
Production
engineering
Buddy Rich Jazz Masters Award
outstanding performance by a drummer
Best Drummer
Rolling Stone Magazine’s Critics Poll
Best New Drummer
Modern Drummer Magazine’s Readers Poll
Most Progressive Drummer
Modern Drummer Magazine’s Readers Poll
(three times)
Will has been the keeper of time for musicians of every kind. Whether playing Hard Rock, Hip-Hop, Funk, Punk, Metal, Ambient, Fusion, or Straight Ahead Jazz, Will makes his rhythmic presence known.
Native Lands
W/ Living Colour
Vivid
Time’s Up
Biscuits (EP)
Stain
1989 — “Best New Artist” MTV Video Music Awards
1990 — “Cult Of Personality” Vivid
“Best Hard Rock Performance” Grammy Award
1990 — Time’s Up
“Best Hard Rock Performance” Stone Free Grammy Award
1993 — “Crosstown Traffic” Stone Free Grammy Award
1994 — THE FIRST ENDING
Pride
(No) Dread
Housework
Drum Wave
Head>>Fake (SOUNDSYSTEM)
DouG & WiLL (bAsS & drUm)
Jungle Funk
Ambient World Music
w/ WiLL / Doug / VinX
Australia Album of the Year (hon. mention)
Youssef Dhafer
Susanne Deyhim
Straight Outta The Bronx
The Will Calhoun Quintet (Live at the Blue Note)
World Ambient Jazz
Bobby Watson (saxophone)
Terrell Stafford (trumpet)
John Benitez (bass)
Orrin Evans (piano)
MosDef
Black Jack Johnson
Will Calhoun d. (Musical Director)
Bernie Worrell k. (Funkadelic)
Doug Wimbish b. (Tack>>Head)
Doc Know g. (Bad Brains)
MOS DEF (NYC) @ THE RITZ (2000)
CollideØscope
Chair In The Doorway
“Pride” (Time’s Up)
“Nothingness” (Stain)
Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance by a group (“Cult Of Personality”)
• Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance (Time’s Up)
• International Rock Award for Best Rock Band.
recorded and/or toured with:
B.B. King
Mick Jagger
Jaco Pastorious
Harry Belafonte
Pharoah Sanders
Jack Dejohnette
Paul Simon
Lou Reed
The Allman Brothers
Lauryn Hill
RUN DMC
Public Enemy
Marcus Miller
Dr.John
Carly Simon
Herb Alpert
Ron Wood
Wayne Shorter
— High Life (1995)
Grammy Award (Best Contemporary Jazz Performance)
RUN DMC
Public Enemy
Herb Alpert
— Colors
2004 — The New Danger
b/ Mos Def (Black Jack Johnson)
Brown Sugar
The Italian Job
Native Lands
World Jazz
Urban Trance
Pharoah Sanders
Mos Def
Buster Williams
Stanley Jordan
Kevin Eubanks
Marcus Miller
Wallace Roney, as well as
Nana Vasconcelos (Brazil) and
Cheick Tidiane Seck (Mali).
jazz, rock, hip-hop, ambient, et al, while producing, touring, educating
Sundance Film
Robert Redford
Miami Arts Group …
INST. OF CHANGE (VERNON REID)
FUSION GUITAR
— originalnoise.org
Black Jack Johnson
Will discusses Native Lands
WILL CALHOUN (CON’T)
CoLors*…
This is a Voyage into Sound.
inst. of change THE ELECTRIC GUITAR
the players
INSTRUMENTS OF NOISE.
take it to the bridge
The Original Color of Sin [BLUE]
In time, Jules Verne and Carl Sagan lived a century apart, and in space, they were worlds away. No matter their differences, both similarly spent much of their time on Earth imagining what lived beyond what the eye could see.
“Largo”
1893 — Symphony No.9 E-Minor Op. 95
b/ Antonin Dvorak
Dvorak’s composition was one of the recordings Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins took on the Apollo 11 voyage to the Moon.
((( Slow )))
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BLUE: THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF SIN