About

     



 Native New Yorker renowned drummer  multi percussion instrumentalist  

Frank Bambara ... an institution in the Village music scene…

Bambara and company cater Jazz
    to a growing number of music aficionados who know the real thing when they hear it."   

-The Villager-

                                                                     "Ultimately, whenever the Frank Bambara Band plays, they generate an event, in the deepest sense of the word. They also pose a challenge to reject the passivity of television or movie theater and to engage in cultural practices that demand more than just spectators."

New York City Magazine-     
 

Native New Yorker Frank Bambara is a mult-instrumentalist/banderleader who's been a part of the city's Village music scene for quite some time. This new recording features Bambara as a composer  as …well as the main percussionist playing congas, timbales, trap drums, vibraphone and keyboards. featuring and excellent timbale solo by Bambara.

    -Latin Beat Magazine-



Timbalero/percussionist/vibist and piano player (whew) Frank Bambara leads an old school New York salsa band This is a nice little project that deserves some attention. It's the kind of material and sound that used be play in New York's once thriving Latin music club scene.
               

               - Descarga Magazin                                                  

Worked and recorded with some of the most famous people in music ,

at major venues.

Carnegie Hall, Entertainment Tonight (WABC Ch. 7) (Push), Best Talk In Town (WPIX Channel 11) (Push), MTV, Walt Disney (Start The Music), El Mundo (Channel 47) movie soundtracks works; Bill Moyers Special, "What Can We Do About Violence?", Jazz Stars of The Future (WKCR FM), JVC Jazz Festival, Brooklyn Arts Cultural Association, Hospital Audiences, Heineken Jazz Festival , Puerto Rican Day Parade,, African Heritage and Hispanic Cultural Events, Starbuck's Coffee, Havana Film Festival, Art in the Park  Strous series, Putamaya Records,Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and dance classes at New York University (NYU),Crunch Gym, South Street Seaport Summer Concerts.