please tell me about glen velez

"Trio Globo" with cellist Eugene Friesen and harmonica player Howard Levy might be worth a listen if you have a tolerance for global folk jazz, though my earnest wish to like their albums has always exceded the actual pleasure I've had from listening. "Rhythms of the Chakras" is interesting in that if memory serves it is quite spare and spacious in contrast to his often dense style -- a percussion only meditation album. I used to handsell it to drummers who might want something to play along with.

Guest appearance of note: augmenting Ned Rothenburg's "Power Lines" nonet -- the track 'Hidalgo's' layered arrangement for strings, brass & reeds, underpinned by Velez's interplay with Mike Sarin's drum kit, is the soundtrack to the exotic spy thriller of my dreams.

Notable associate: former student Layne Redmond, his main partner on "Internal Combustion." Like Velez her catalog leans toward the new agey, but I've always liked "Chanting the Chakras" which uses quite a bit of vocal percussion as well as frame drumming.

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I know right? People are such bitches.

(thanks for the advice all)

These are the Glen Velez albums that I find to have worthwhile content:

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Some of them have some new agey bits, but it's not really crystal healing soundtracks or what have you.

Glen Velez, Pedro Estevan, Layne Redmond, Suso Saiz, Maria Villa, Miguel Herrero ‎– Musica Esporadica has a piece or two that pretty brilliantly ape prime period Steve Reich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNSQg77FxnQ

Recently I played a track from Internal Combustible (sped up and blended with some ambient stuff) while djing, and someone said "oh didn't you know? He's in town giving a masterclass at the university." I did not get a chance to see or hear him though. That's my Glenn Velez story.