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Alex Gomez
Alejandro Gomez was born in Guadalajara Jalisco México december 20th 1980. At the age of 6, Alex discovered an irresistible attraction towards the drum set and music in general under his biggest influence his father Jose Gomez (professional musician). At the age of 13 he enrolled in the Conservatory of music of Guadalajara (U.D.G) and participated in several master classes with many great musicians, Alvaro Lopez Jr, Gregg Bissonette, Antonio Sanchez, Giovanni Figueroa, Dave Weckl and many others. At the age of 15 he began his professional career as a Studio musician working with several local bands with such stylings as pop, funk, Rock , Jazz, Fusion and many others Latin styles such as Salsa, Merenge, Jazz Latino, Timba and Brazilian Music. His introduction to the big city at age 19 was in the expromusic festival 2000 with his jazz Quartet McKanne. At that time they where one of the youngest and most recognize Jazz bands in Guadalajara. Since then, he has been offered work as a professional musician in Mexico City. Working with several artists as a studio Musician and touring in many countries with many Mexican artists such as Lucero, Angelica Vale, Nicola Di vari, Jose Jose, Emmanuel, Gloria Trevi, Mijares, Ana Sirre, Gilberto Gless, Paty Manterola, Belinda, Amaury Gutierrez, Ha Ash, Francisco Cespedes, Ana Barbara, Yuri, Tommy Torres, SPECIAL EVENT SHOW LIVE WITH ALEJANDRO SANZ MEXICO CITY AUDITORIO NACIONAL. nowdays he’s playing with, RICARDO MONTANER & ALEJANDRA GUZMAN. He is currently playing on the mexican jazz scene, recently was invited to play with Tom Coster (Jazz Master, Santana, Vital Information, etc.) He has conducted clinics and master classes in Mexico & latin America....
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SHOW IS COMPLIMENTARY WHEN ATTENDING THE MASTER CLASS!
Alex Gomez
Alejandro Gomez was born in Guadalajara Jalisco México december 20th 1980. At the age of 6, Alex discovered an irresistible attraction towards the drum set and music in general under his biggest influence his father Jose Gomez (professional musician). At the age of 13 he enrolled in the Conservatory of music of Guadalajara (U.D.G) and participated in several master classes with many great musicians, Alvaro Lopez Jr, Gregg Bissonette, Antonio Sanchez, Giovanni Figueroa, Dave Weckl and many others. At the age of 15 he began his professional career as a Studio musician working with several local bands with such stylings as pop, funk, Rock , Jazz, Fusion and many others Latin styles such as Salsa, Merenge, Jazz Latino, Timba and Brazilian Music. His introduction to the big city at age 19 was in the expromusic festival 2000 with his jazz Quartet McKanne. At that time they where one of the youngest and most recognize Jazz bands in Guadalajara. Since then, he has been offered work as a professional musician in Mexico City. Working with several artists as a studio Musician and touring in many countries with many Mexican artists such as Lucero, Angelica Vale, Nicola Di vari, Jose Jose, Emmanuel, Gloria Trevi, Mijares, Ana Sirre, Gilberto Gless, Paty Manterola, Belinda, Amaury Gutierrez, Ha Ash, Francisco Cespedes, Ana Barbara, Yuri, Tommy Torres, SPECIAL EVENT SHOW LIVE WITH ALEJANDRO SANZ MEXICO CITY AUDITORIO NACIONAL. nowdays he’s playing with, RICARDO MONTANER & ALEJANDRA GUZMAN. He is currently playing on the mexican jazz scene, recently was invited to play with Tom Coster (Jazz Master, Santana, Vital Information, etc.) He has conducted clinics and master classes in Mexico & latin America.
Tom Coster
Born: August 21, 1941
During his tenure with Santana in the 1970’s, Tom Coster made his mark as a keyboard player and composer of versatility and power. Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies through college and a productive five-year stint as a musician in the Air Force. He then invaded the Bay Area club scene, soon acquiring his reputation as a standout keyboard player. After successful tenures with the rock group The Loading Zone and jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo, Coster was asked by Carlos Santana in 1972 to bring more jazz fusion influence to that phenomenally successful band.
This historic alliance produced six classic Santana albums -- “Caravanserai,” “Welcome,” “Lotus,” “Borboletta,” “Amigos,” and “Moonflower.” Coster also performed on three Devadip Carlos Santana solo albums (including “Illuminations” with Alice Coltrane). “Europa,” “Flor D’Luna” and “Dance Sister Dance” are three timeless examples of Coster’s contributions to these projects.
After amicably parting with Santana, Coster joined forces with drummer Billy Cobham’s band for a brief stint before taking a sabbatical from the music business to spend more time with his family. He re- entered the recording world with two critically acclaimed solo albums, “T.C.” and “Ivory Expeditions.” Still sought after, these albums feature performances by guitarist Joaquin Lievano, Randy Jackson on bass and Steve Smith on drums. Additionally, “Ivory Expeditions” marked the first recorded collaboration with Tom’s son, Tom Coster Jr.
Coster rejoined Santana in 1983 and 1986, contributing to the “Freedom” album as well as the 20-year anthology, “Viva Santana.” When former Journey drummer Steve Smith formed the progressive fusion band Vital Information, Tom was drafted to play keyboards.
(So ends the “official” Tom Coster biography. Tom adds the following notes and updates to his storied career.)
Since Steve Smith was off and on again with Journey, there was no real touring schedule for “Vital” and I wanted to pursue my own recording career, so after leaving Fantasy Records, I got a deal with “Headfirst Records” and began a new recording career. Their intention was of course to sell records and my two projects with them was NAC (easy listening) and actually did quite well. Both CD’s charted in the top 10 on the Contemporary Jazz Billboard Chart. The two projects were “Did Jah’ Miss Me” and “From Me To You” which were eventually picked up by JVC.
My fusion fans fell left out,as I knew they would be, and I felt somewhat depressed about the whole industry since radio stations weren't playing any fusion (and they still don’t, for that matter!).
When I left “Headfirst” I was picked up by JVC and my first project was gain NAC oriented entitled “Gotcha”. Shortly after that record, JVC magically gave me the go ahead to record three additional albums playing and writing music that I personally loved to record, so the next and last three JVC projects, “Let’s Set The Record Straight”, “The Forbidden Zone” and “From The Street” were “no holds bar, ball to the wall fusion”.
I had a great time writing and recording the music. The music was smokin’ and the players were the best in the world and they got to play their asses off!!! At this point in time I fell that I was giving my fans what the Lord and blessed me with, to play your instrument the way you felt it to be played without anyone telling you what and how to play. I will always be grateful to JVC for this honor and privilege.
The four recordings I did for JVC were recorded in my home. I have a 24 track 2 inch analog tape recording studio in my home and it was amazing having all the cats stay at the house and record and also hang out. My son Tom Jr. did the producing and he was a big part in making it all happen. The entire experience was totally mind blowing and I will never forget how much everyone enjoyed it, especially myself. The music that came out of it was the best!!!
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