Chamber Music America

In this series, I invite esteemed classical musicians onto the show and interview them to tell their stories and give advice to share with others and preserve their legacies.

Today, I have the privilege of talking to David Samuel, someone I met briefly at the Chamber Music America conference in Chicago at the end of the summer.

I'm so glad that we were introduced and that we were able to connect to make this interview happen.

For those of you who don't know him, David Samuel is a performer, educator, and chamber musician.

So this first album was really interesting.

It was through Chamber Music America, which is actually the same grant that's helped me record this last album that I did.

So the two albums that I did were through the same organization grant that I won like six years apart.

Um, and that first year I was trying to put together a program, but I, I wasn't really writing as much in that time.

Yes.

I have been honored again at Chamber Music America support grant for a new trio with Chano Domingos, which is a very recognized or one of the renowned flamenco jazz pianists who brought jazz to the flamenco.

and uh he used to live in in the states but moved back to barcelona so and um he was highly recommended for many people and i'm i it's it's he's he's the father of flamenco piano jazz kind of and and uh it's a huge honor to to record with him and i also invited mina sinelu a percussionist who It's originally from Paris but played with Miles Davis and Sting and Lou Reed and I don't know, Stevie Wonder, like Gil Evans' big band, you know, and he's coming along and it's a really pleasure because Chano is now a very experienced seniority artist, and he recently told me that he's really looking forward to this project, and for a long time he hasn't been excited about any project, so it really touches my heart that he's excited about this, and for me it's a huge honor, especially having started flamenco and trying to apply it on trumpet as much as I can, understanding that I will never become a true flamenco musician, but I can learn and grow as an improviser and trying to fit in And I'm curious to see what will happen, because we will have, you know, Mino, who's also played in Weather Report, like Fusion Jazz, with maybe some flamenco influences, maybe Martinique, because he's originally from Martinique, Paris, but he lives in New York.

And then, you know, my little compositions, maybe write songs together.