Bernie Arai Artist Profile
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Bio
Bernie AraiBernie Arai's career as a performer, recording artist and educator spans styles from jazz to electronic music to Japanese taiko. He works regularly with some of Canada's most accomplished musicians. Born, raised and based in Vancouver and educated at the University of British Columbia (Engineering Physics), Capilano College (Jazz Studies) and New York's Drummer's Collective, Bernie performs across the country with various ensembles, and has toured the United States, Japan and Europe.Performance highlights include the Brad Turner Trio, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Metalwood, sekoya, Fred Stride Jazz Orchestra, Sharon Minemoto Quintet, Altered Laws, Crash, Ross Taggart Quartet, Uzume Taiko Ensemble and Diversions. Bernie leads his own ensembles, including the Bernie Arai Trio, To Be Ornette To Be, and Wabi/Sabi, and co-leads hard-bop sextet Ugetsu and plays in the improvised electronic ensemble Elevatorhead with saxophonist Jon Bentley. underscore is Bernie's solo project featuring new music written on/for/with Nintendo Gameboy, and TAG Trio is a new group making improvised ambient music with Chris Gestrin on analog synthesizers, Alcvin Takegawa Ramos on shakuhachi, and Bernie on Atari ST. He has had the opportunity to perform and record with many great musicians from around the world, including Dr. Lonnie Smith, Kenny Wheeler, Slide Hampton, Gary Bartz, Don Thompson, Bobby Shew, Phil Woods, Ingrid Jensen, Brian Lynch, Seamus Blake, Neil Swainson, Michael Blake, and Phil Nimmons. |
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Jon Bentley
Scott Sanft
Dave Sikula
Discography
| 2006 Ugestu "Live at the Cellar" Cellar Live Producer, Drums 2004 Crash w/Dr Lonnie Smith "The Doctor Is In" Cellar Live Drumset 2004 Megan Fanning "Influence" Collingwood Records Drumset 2004 Brad Turner Trio "Question The Answer" Maximum/ Universal Drumset 2004 Jon Bentley Quintet "Motions" Independent Drumset 2003 Brian Lynch Quartet "Fushia/Red" Cellar Live Drumset 2002 Sharon Minemoto Quintet "Side A" Cellar Live Drumset 2002 Ross Taggart Quartet "Thankfully" Cellar Live Drumset 2002 Hard Rubber Orchestra "Rub Harder" Victo Drumset, Percussion 2001 Various Artists "Maximum Jazz:Live at the Cellar" Maximum Drumset 2000 Vancouver Nights "Vancouver Nights" Endearing/ Quattro Drumset 1999 Ken Aldrcroft Trio +1 "His Mistress Never Sleeps" Independent Drumset 1998 Diversions "American Prophecy" Independent Drumset 1997 Colorifics "Living City" Trademark Drumset 1997 Another Girl "In The Galaxy" RCA Drumset, Percussion |
