This is The Home of the Environmental Rhythms of Daniel Ray (a/k/a Big Black)

STAGE CREDITS

LEAD ROLE IN BIG TIME BUCK WHITE

NORTH ON SOUTH CENTRAL AVE (2004)

FEATURED MUSICAL APPEARANCES OVER THE YEARS WITH

Babatundi Olatunja

Freddie Hubbard

Randy Weston

Dizzy Gillespie

Arturo Sandavol

Ray Bryant

Sun-Ra

Ernest Rangler

Tito Puente

Macheto

Hugh Masekela

Harry Belafonte

Bill Cosby

Paul Butterfield

Mary Lou Williams

Cedar Walton

Charles Tolliver

Jimmy Heath

John Williams & The Boston Pops

Calypso Eddie Pender

Lord Fish Ray

Johnny "Slick" Ingram a/ka/a Count Spoon

Lord Flea

John Handy

Gene Ammons

John Coltraner

Richie Havens

B.B. King

Oscar Peterson

Art Blakely

Miriam Makeba

Black Harold

Count Bassie Band

Muddy Waters

Nina Simone

BIG  BLACK'S UNI ALBUMS:

BIG BLACK & THE BLUES

ELEMENTS OF NOW

LION WALK

IF YOU'RE DIGGIN' WHAT YOU'RE DOIN'

KEEP DOIN' WHAT YOU'RE DIGGIN'

MESSAGE TO OUR ANCESTORS

BIG BLACK'S 1750 ARCH RECORDS:

ETHNIC FUSION

BIG BLACK'S CHICHERRY ALBUMS:

BONJOUR AFRIQUE/HELLO AFRICA

PEOPLE ARE TALKING

GLORY FOR OLE GLORY

ANYBODY GOT A HOT MEAL ?

ALBUMS PLAYED ON IN ADDITION TO HIS OWN

  “NIGHT OF THE COOKERS” WITH ART BLAKLEY

 MONTEREY JAZZ 65  WITH DIZZY GILLESPIE   

AFRICAN SUNRISE  BY RANDY WESTON

BLUE SPIRITS BY FREDDIE HUBBARD

MONTEREY "66 BY RANDY WESTON

BRUCE PALMER BY BRUCE PALMER

BABY BATTER BY HARVEY MANDEL

AFRICAN COOKBOOK BY RANDY WESTON

OPENING NIGHT BY KEVIN EUBANKS

SPIRITS OF OUR ANCESTORS BY RANDY WESTON

BACK TO THE GROOVE BY WAYNE HENDERSON

SECRETS OF RODNEY KENDRICK BY RODNEY KENDRICK

 GETTING TO KNOW YOU BY MULGREW MILLER

BABY BATTER/SNAKE BY HARVEY MANDEL

FREDDIE HUBBARD BLUE NOTE BY FREDDIE HUBBARD

(PLUS ADDITIONAL ONES TO BE ADDED AS REMEMBERED )

COMPOSITIONS WRITTEN FOR BIG BLACK:

"AFRO BLACK" WRITTEN BY RANDY WESTON

"SHADES OF BLACK" BY KEVIN EUBANKS

BAND LEADER OF THESE BANDS:

BIG BLACK & BROTHERS

BIG BLACK RHYTHM BAND

BIG BLACK & HIS CONGREGATION

THE OPENERS, BIG BLACK & SAYYD

BIG BLACK'S JUJU BLUES ENSEMBLE

BIG BLACK'S BLUES BAND

BIG BLACK'S LOFT JAM BAND & SINGERS

SOME LIVE PERFORMANCES

Festpak, Dakar, West Africa, featured kongo performances

Cuba Jazz Festival featured in Dizzy's Film "Havana bop"

28TH Festival of Pres Bonay of Ivory Coast with Kool & The Gang

State Dept Tours of Brazil & The Carribean with Randy Weston

'65 Monterey Jazz Festival with Dizzy Gillespie

'67 Monterey Pops Festival with Hugh Masekela

Montreal Festival

Lincoln Center, NYC, Music of South Africa

'74 Zaire Festival, special drummer to Mohammad Ali

Lincoln Center, NYC, Spirit of Our Ancestors

Boston Pops with Randy Weston

Symphony Space, NYC with Babatundi Olatunja, World of Percussion

First Solo Appearance in NYC presented by World Music Institute

West Beth of New York directing workshops/seminars on his "Hearbeat" Drumming Concept &Technique & Conducting Percussion Workshops at Lotus Music & Dance Studios

FILM & TV CREDITS

FILM

"SOULPOWER" (RELEASE JULY 2009)

A NIGHT IN HAVANA:DIZZY GILLESPIE IN CUBA (1989)

"WHEN WE WERE KINGS" (1996)

THE PERFECT LEAVE (1996)

"THE MINUS  MAN" (1999 SUNDANCE WINNER)

"LEATHAL WEAPON lll (1992)

"UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT"

"EMPEROR OF THE NORTH"

'UP THE SANDBOX"

"MISTER COOL"

"THE PILOT" (1980)

"BIG CITY, BRIGHT LIGHTS"

"HANGUP" (1974)

"TOGETHER BROTHERS" (1974)

"BLAZING SADDLES" (1974)

TV 

PSA:SPENDING MORE TIME WITH YOUR KIDS

SANFORD & SON (1973)

POLICE STORY

APPLES WAY  (1974)

THE TREE (1974)

BLUE KNIGHT (1973)

GOOD TIMES

MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW

BIG BLACK'S BANANA BOAT CALYPSO SPECIAL