to Fareed Haque for being nominated "Best Jazz Entertainer of the Year"
in the upcoming 31st Annual Chicago Music Awards!
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2011 REVIEWS Fareed Haque has toured all over the world playing many types of music. He tours with his projects Garaj Mahal and as the leader of The Flat Earth Ensemble. He has toured and recorded with many legendary jazz musicians, including Sting, Zakir Hussain, George Brooks, Paquito D’Rivera, Frank Bungarten, Goran Ivanovic, Joe Zawinul, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Frank Vignola, Frank Bungarten, Stephen Perkins / Willy Waldman’s Banyan, and many others. While he is mostly known in the progressive jam and jazz worlds, in June he did a tour with Frank Bungarten in Germany playing classical music. Our main mission for events is to have him perform the music about which he is most passionate. His work resides in an Indo Jazz setting where Mr. Haque draws on his ethnic background to forge new musical territory, crossing over classical Indian music with American Jazz and Funk. Like Shakti and The Mahavishnu Orchestra before him, Fareed Haque has crafted music  downloadable poster |
that is reflective of his Pakistani roots introducing a joyous, grooving, funk and jazz infused approach. Now on Owl Studios, this amazing guitar player is bending the lines between jazz, world beat, and jam music. Well known from years of touring with Garaj Mahal, his audience base is drawn from jam friendly college students to serious button down jazz cats, to fans of East Indian and ethnic music. Mr. Haque is Professor of Music at Northern Illinois University and has been commissioned to compose and perform: the Lahara concerto commissioned by the Chicago Symphonietta, and a guitar concerto from the Eye of a Hurricane commissioned by Fulcrum Point Ensemble.
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CHECK OUT THE VISUALS! September 17, 2011 April 9, 2011 April 4, 2011
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Professor
Fareed Haque recently returned from interstellar pan dimensional
time travel, and has brought with him his new jazztronica trio
MathGames! to earth and its environs. This unique trio is transforming
light and sound into a funktronica sweatbox. Combining the phenomenal
skills of guitar master Fareed Haque with the wildly entertaining
drumming of Greg Fundis, and the solid and sweet foundation
supplied by Alex Austin, you get a MathGames! equation that
will perplex but eventually satisfy your thirst for knowledge.
Please welcome MathGames! to your planet!
His
live performances appear in a wide spectrum of settings including
Jam and Rock festivals, jazz houses, chamber orchestra, symphonic
appearances, and clubs, colleges, and universities across the globe.
Some artists claim to be competent at multiple styles, but Fareed
Haque’s experiences illustrate him as one of the true Renaissance
musicians on the guitar.
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