Claude Salmiéri

Drummer - Pianist - Composer

Claude Salmiéri is one of our most talented and famous French drummers unusual course.

Claude Salmiéri is one of our most talented and famous French drummers unusual course.

Born in Tunis, in a family of "ritals" musicians, his father, a professional drummer, installed him behind his first drums at the age of 5. At the age of 8, he entered the Saint Maur Conservatory in a percussion class and began studying music theory, and at the same time began studying the piano.

In 1974, at the age of 15, he was admitted to the National Conservatory of Paris, where he won the first prize for percussion. He also left the saint Maur conservatory with a classical piano prize.

In 1976, he began his career by accompanying Yves Simon, David Rose Group, Robert Charlebois.

From 1978 to 1980, it was Magma's experience that allowed him, alongside Christian Vander, to draw extra energy. Very quickly, he participated in many albums for artists as different as Ray Charles, F. Gall, M. Berger, Renaud, Don Cherry, Marvin Gaye... and accompanies on stage artists such as Lalo Schiffrin, F. Cabrel, V. Sanson, Vladimir Cosma with whom he collaborates on film scores.

In 1988, he played with Paga, a band, his first album "Self portrait" was recorded in 1991.

In 1996, he founded with Jannick top and Eric Seva the band "STS", and recorded an album "Solar System". Claude Salmiéri has also participated in various musicals such as Starmania, Tycoon, and Notre Dame de Paris...

In 2005, he founded his own Jazz trio, and the same year released his album, "Light Night". In the same year, he created his brand of drums and microphones in collaboration with Prodipe. Batteries and microphones are distributed around the world.

In November 2006, he joined the "Around the Blues" team. He accompanied Larry Carlton and Robben Ford to the New Morning. Today, he presents his new quintet which is accompanied by an album "Projections Jazz Series". It covers the biggest themes of TV series and films, such as Mannix, The Streets of San Francisco, Mission Impossible, Bullit...

David Blumberg

Composer - Arranger - Producer

I have both the Pro 8 and Pro 5 speakers, the Pro 10S Subwoofer, and the Prodipe Pro 880 headphone which I use all the time in my studio.

I LOVE the sound quality I am getting from all of them. I also have a full set of Prodipe microphones, which I have been using with a phenomenal artist named Ellis Hall. With Ellis, we use the microphones to record drums, guitars and vocals.

The quality has been quite outstanding. In comparison with other microphones or speakers, Prodipe competes quite nicely. I would recommend considering a purchase of either speaker system, headphones or microphones to anyone serious about the quality of music they are making.

I also have been very impressed with the quality of Prodipe products and its reasonable price. We are all aware that the budgets throughout the world are not necessarily allocated to culture. For this reason, Prodipe represents the revival of our profession.

The budget savings must be used for the promotion of artists.

Biography

A giant of american music! Composer, arranger and producer of the greatest stars.

He grew up in Los Angeles, studying music in college and privately. He had numerous performances of his classical compositions for orchestra, string quartet, chamber groups, and brass/wind ensembles, but made his living in TV and film music and in the back room at record labels. He did everything from shorts, animated features, commercials and CD-Roms to feature films and gold records.

He began his arranging career at Clarence Paul's Venture Records; then Hal Davis at Motown began using him, and over eleven years there were 14 gold albums, including their first three Jackson Five albums, where his first chart-topper was Michael Jackson's album Got To Be There '72, and another was Dinah Ross's single 'Love Hangover' '76. At Motown he worked with Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, the Miracles, Jermaine Jackson, Leon Ware, the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye, as well as working for other labels during the same period.

He worked with Quincy Jones on Body Heat '74 including 'Everything Must Change', and did orchestrations on several of Jones's films. In 1979 he was the arranger on Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive', a no. 1 hit that became an anthem. Other artists he worked with included Nat and Cannonball Adderly, Wayne Shorter, Milt Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Melissa Manchester, Tim Buckley, Nils Lofgrin, Neil Young, Spirit, Bobby Womack, Patti LaBelle, James Brown, Johnny Mathis, Eric Clapton, Natalie Cole, Gene Page, Joe Sample, Frankie Valli, David Byrne, Cameo, Peabo Bryson, Johnny Nash, Anita Baker, Tina Turner, Patti Austin, Jerry Butler, Syreeta, Jimmy Smith, Andy Williams, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dakota Staton, and many others.

In film, Blumberg did orchestrations or arranging for Herbie Hancock on four films, including Round Midnight, which won an Oscar for its music in 1987. He also worked on films with Elmer Bernstein, Bob Alcivar, Neil Young, Fred Karlin, and Frank Stalone.

In more recent years he arranged for David Benoit including American Landscape, three albums with Maxwell for Sony including This Woman's Work (soul singer-songwriter Gerald Maxwell Rivera, b 23 May 1973), Ellis Hall's Straight Ahead, orchestration for Robbie Buchanan for Barbra Streisand's Movie album, and orchestration for Jorge Calandrelli for the Norwegian singer Sissel's self-titled album, as well as three tracks on Ray Charles's duets album Genius Loves Company, and an album for Stevie Wonder.

He had been working as an arranger on the American Idol TV show for four years.

After studying for many years with Spud Murphy, he was teaching Murphy's Equal Interval System to private students as a composition tool.

Claude Salmiéri

Drummer - Pianist - Composer

Ludovic Lanen

Sound engineer

David Blumberg

Composer - Arranger - Producer