Description

Desde La Capital

Difficulty: medium-difficult

Solos: open

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Ranges: trumpet – G above staff

Instrumentation: (sextet) alto, trumpet, rhythm (4)

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Josh Schwartzman Bio

Josh “Bermuda” Schwartz has worked extensively in and around the East Coast Latin and jazz scenes for many years. Best known as founder, bassist and contributing arranger and composer for RUMBA CLUB since its inception 36 years ago. He can also be found performing in a variety of musical settings playing upright and electric bass and piano.

Josh studied at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York and at Towson University where he studied with the great arranger Hank Levy in the early eighties. Josh lived in Spanish Harlem where his interest in Latin music was nurtured. For several years Josh studied arranging and

composition privately with the late Dr. Asher Zlotnik alumnus of the Peabody Institute of Music.

He has had the honor of sharing the stage with well-known jazz and Latin musicians alike (Tito Puente, Billy Higgins, Giovanni Hidalgo, David Williams, Nestor Torrez, John Faddis) As a member of Duende Quartet, Josh has toured the world as part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rhythm Road: American Music abroad program co-sponsored by the US Department of State 2007: Turkey, Albania, Cypress, Bosnia 2009: India, Bangladesh, Philippines, Taiwan. In

2008 Josh played bass in the theater presentation “David in Shadow and Light” at the J Theater in Washington DC.

Josh is also an accomplished pianist and appears as a solo pianist in Baltimore area restaurants and as a combo pianist. Josh currently appears with the Blues In The Night Big Band in Baltimore / Washington area.