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Vishnu Wood, jazz bassist and music educator, is the Executive Director of Safari East Cultural Presentations. He has performed and or recorded with jazz greats including:



 

 
  • Dizzie Gillespie
  • Kenny Burrell
  • Alice Coltrane
  • Jack Dijonnette
  • Kenny Durham
  • Tiny Grimes
  • Freddy Hubbard
  • Slide Hampton
  • Barry Harris
  • Joe Henderson
  • Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Elvin Jones
  • Clifford Jordan
  • Art Farmer
  • Sam Rivers
  • Gloria Lynn
  • Carmen McRae
  • Thelonius Monk
  • Charles Mingus
  • Rassan Roland-Kirk
  • Hilton Ruiz
  • Archie Shepp
  • Roy Hanes
  • Carrie Smith
  • Dakota Staton
  • Terry Thornton
  • Grover Washington
  • Jimmy Owens
  • Harold Maburn
  • Melba Joyce

 


Awards

  • The Intercollegiate Jazz Festival at Notre Dame
  • The Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
  • The Westchester Arts Council
  • Jazz Foundation of America


Teaching and Residencies
  • Community Music School of Springfield – Springfield, MA
  • Hampshire College – Amherst, MA
  • Jazz Workshops – First Presbyterian Church – Mt. Vernon, NY
  • Purchase College – Purchase, NY
  • Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ
  • University of Massachusetts – Amherst, MA
  • Vassar College – Poughkeepsie, NY
  • Westchester Conservatory – White Plains, NY
  • Stockbridge School – Stockbridge, MA

International Tours

  • Harlem Blues & Jazz Band – Switzerland, Italy
  • Mingus Dynasty – Morocco, Algeria
  • Alberta Hunter – Paris, Brazil, Germany
  • Max Roach – Spain, Germany
  • Randy Weston – Morocco, Middle East, North West Africa (U.S. State Department Tour)

National Festivals and Concerts

  • Pelham Art Center – Pelham, NY
  • Performing Arts Center – Purchase, NY
  • St, Peteršs Church – New York, NY
  • Hartford Jazz Festival – Hartford, CT
  • Monterrey Jazz Festival – Monterrey, CA
  • Montreal Jazz Festival – Montreal, Canada
  • Chicago Blues Festival – Chicago, IL
  • W.C. Handy Festival – Florence, AL
  • Springfield College – Springfield, MA
  • Hartford University – Hartford, CT
  • Alice Tully Hall – New York, NY
  • Town Hall – New York, NY
  • Jazz at Sunset – New England Science Center Worcester, MA
  • Lincoln Center Outdoors – New York, NY
  • Wave Hill – Riverdale, NY
  • School for International Training – Brattleboro, VT
  • Jazz Mobile – New York, NY
  • August Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, MA

Education

  • Detroit Institute of Musical Arts – Certificate
  • University of Massachusetts – Bachelors Degree
  • Private study with John Matthews and Gaston Brohan of the Detroit Symphony Ochestra

Mr. Wood is currently on the Board of the Jazz Foundation of America.
He is active in the International Association of Jazz Educators.

 


Vishnu Wood, 65 Morgan Circle, Amhest, MA 01002 413.548.8006
Vishnu Wood, 31 East 28th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10016 212.951.7030 x21
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