Peter Noah Apfelbaum (born August 21, 1960) is an American

avant-garde jazz Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz and experimental jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through to the late 1960s. Orig ...

pianist, tenor saxophonist, drummer, and composer born in

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Career

Apfelbaum formed the Hieroglyphics Ensemble in 1977. He performed with

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from 1978 to 1982 and toured with Warren Smith and

Karl Berger Karl Hans Berger (born March 30, 1935 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a German jazz pianist, composer, and educator. Career Berger played piano in Germany when he was ten and worked in his teens at a club in Heidelberg. He learned modern jazz from v ...

. He has composed for the Hieroglyphics Ensemble and for

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. In 1990 he toured and recorded with Cherry in the band Multikulti, playing piano and saxophone. Apfelbaum's main instruments are tenor saxophone, piano, and drums. His work is influenced by world music with experimental jazz.Down Beat Profile

Discography

As leader

* ''Pillars'' (Jewish Matador, 1979) * ''Signs of Life'' (Antilles, 1991) * ''Jodoji Brightness'' (Antilles, 1992) * ''Luminous Charms'' (Gramavision, 1996) * ''It Is Written'' (ACT, 2005)

As sideman

With

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* ''Bar 17'' (Rubber Jungle, 2006) * ''Plasma'' (Elektra, 2003) * ''Seis De Mayo'' (Elektra, 2004) * ''

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'' (Rubber Jungle, 2007) With

* ''Live at the Donaueschingen Music Festival'' (MPS, 1980) * ''New Moon'' (Palcoscenico, 1980) * ''Stillpoint'' (Double Moon, 2002) With Steven Bernstein * ''Diaspora Soul'' (Tzadik, 1999) * ''MTO Volume 1'' (Sunnyside, 2006) * ''Diaspora Suite'' (Tzadik, 2008) * ''MTO Plays Sly'' (Royal Potato Family, 2011) With Dafnis Prieto * ''Taking the Soul for a Walk'' (Dafnison, 2008) * ''Live at Jazz Standard NYC'' (Dafnison, 2009) * ''Triangles and Circles'' (Dafnison, 2015) * ''Back to the Sunset'' (Dafnison, 2018) With

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* ''Beggars and Saints'' (Triloka, 1994) * ''Shiva Station'' (Triloka, 1997) * ''Thunder Love'' (Nutone, 2009) * ''Roots, Rock, Rama!'' (Mantralogy, 2017) With others *

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, ''Peace Pipe'' (Palmetto, 2002) *

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, ''Beat the Donkey'' (Beat, 2004) * Cyro Baptista, ''

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'' (Tzadik, 2005) *

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, ''The Process'' (M.O.D., 2014) *

Will Bernard Will Bernard is a guitarist and band leader. He has led the Will Bernard Band, Will Bernard Trio, Will Bernard 4-tet, and Motherbug. Career In the 1980s Bernard was a member of the Hieroglyphics Ensemble led by Peter Apfelbaum. In the 1990s he f ...

, ''Medicine Hat'' (Antilles, 1998) *

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, ''Tucuma'' (Verve, 1998) *

, ''

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'' (A&M, 1990) *

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, ''Children in Peril'' (Music & Arts, 1997) *

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, ''Charlie Hunter'' (Blue Note, 2000) *

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, ''The Order of Time'' (Concord, 2017) *

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, ''Kauai: the Arch of Heaven'' (Metastation, 2014) * Bill Laswell, ''Risurrezione Dubopera'' (ESP Disk, 2016) *

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featuring Material, ''Apocalypse Live'' (M.O.D., 2017) *

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, ''Release the Day'' (Michael Watt, 2000) *

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, ''Rise Again'' (M.O.D., 2011) *

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, ''

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'' (Electra, 1995) * Phish, ''Road to Vegas'' (Jemp, 2007) * Roberto Juan Rodríguez, ''El Danzon De Moises'' (Tzadik, 2002) * Roberto Juan Rodríguez, ''The First Basket'' (Tzadik, 2009) *

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, ''Treats for the Nightwalker'' (Enja, 2003) * Josh Roseman, ''New Constellations'' (Enja, 2007) *

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, ''Can You Imagine... the Sound of a Dream'' (Meta, 2011) *

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, ''Nearly Human'' (Warner Bros., 1989) *

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, ''Dime Grind Palace'' (Ropeadope, 2003) * Paul Shapiro, ''Midnight Minyan'' (Tzadik, 2003) * Paul Shapiro, ''It's in the Twilight'' (Tzadik, 2006) *

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, ''Eggun'' (Ota, 2013) *

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, ''Vodou Pt. 1 & 2'' (Blue Note, 2002) *

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& Bill Laswell, ''Realm of Spells'' (Jah Wobble 2019) *

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, ''Voices in the Wilderness'' (Tzadik, 2003)

References

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