Meilana Gillard
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- Skill Level:
- Professional
- Craft:
- musician, composer, producer, songwriter
- Instruments:
- tenor saxophone, flute, alto saxophone, boa soprano saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, keyboard, voice, voice (alto)
- Genres:
- acoustic jazz, avant-garde jazz, acid jazz, chamber, chamber jazz, rhythm and blues (r&b), hardcore hip hop, hip hop, classical, modern classical
- Influences:
- Gene Walker, Gene Ammons, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Lester Young, Lucky Thompson, Don Byas, Paul Gonsalves, Sonny Stitt, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Sidney Bichet, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Debussy, Charles Ives, Gil Evans, Slide Hampton, Wayne Shorter, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Henderson, Christian McBride, Seamus Blake, Greg Osby, Mark Turner, Chris Potter, Donny McCaslin, Ron Blake, Freddie Hubbard, Sammy Nestico, Count Basie, Frank Foster, Stanley Turrentine, Maceo Parker, Junior Cook, Booker Irvin, Led Zeppelin, Chaka Khan, Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Aaron Neville, Machito, The Ronettes, June Christy, Ella Fitzgerald, Snoop Dogg, James Brown, Parliament, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Delfonics, John Legend, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, Slum Village, Lauryn Hill, Raphael Saadiq, Q-Tip, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Erykah Badu, Common, Pharrell Williams, The Neptunes, Chucky Thompson, Salaam Remi, Pete Rock, Redman, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, DJ Premier, Soundgarden, Ludacris, Chad Hugo, Dipset, Flipsyde, Robin Thicke, Jazmine Sullivan, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Kanye West, Kool Keith, Slick Rick
****Hey Guys! many of you have sent session requests and its not my intent to ignore any of you. I have had a lot of family and personal things going on right now so I've been busy BUT I would like to add that I am currently looking for Jazz Bassists, Pianists, Drummers and horn players to collab with who read very well and of course have the ability to record pretty well....maybe guitar..i dunno..wanna try something different. anyway...holla if thats you :) xoxoxoxo
Hi Everyone! Welcome to my Indaba Music Profile! Please check out my debut CD "Day One", which was recorded at the official Indaba Music Studio by Josh Robertson and Mantis Evar! You can purchase it in mp3 format or hardcopy at www.innercirclemusic.net or on iTunes, Amazon.com, and CD Baby.
Many of the compositions above are from my new CD which features myself on Tenor Saxophone, Nir Felder on Guitar, Sam Barsh on Rhodes and Synth, Marcos Varela on Bass, and Tyshawn Sorey on Drums.
Also included here are some Hip-Hop, R&B, Soul, Dance and Pop tracks I have been working on lately using Reason, Pro Tools 8 and a variety of acoustic instruments. Please check it all out and I'd love to hear what you think and please do tell me about your projects. Thank you!!!
Bio:
Meilana McLean Gillard (b. London, 1981) is a Tenor Saxophonist and Composer who enjoys creating genre blurring music with strong jazz roots. She began to play piano at age 7 later picking up the saxophone at age 11. Her curiosity remained peaked through high school and college as she won several awards and honors for both improvisation and composition. She studied under Beatles' Saxophonist, Gene Walker the majority of her high school and college years. Gillard moved to NYC in 2003 to continue her collegiate music education at the New School University where she studied privately with Seamus Blake, George Garzone, David Glasser and Tim Price. While at the New School, Meilana began to play with master drummer Charli Persip in both his Big Band "Supersound" and hi quintet. In 2007 Persip recorded Gillard's composition "Intrinsic Evolution" as the title track for his latest Big Band recording. In 2006 Meilana played on Joan Osborne's release "Breakfast In Bed" with Alto Saxophonist Greg Osby who later signed her to his record label "Inner Circle Music". Her debut album "Day One" was released in October 2008. It features 8 original compositions. Gillard has performed with Christian McBride, Lauren Sevian, and the Diva Jazz Orchestra.
- Band or Group:
- Fine Print (jazz group) M*FAKTR Productions
- Favorite Lyric:
www.myspace.com/mfaktr
www.myspace.com/meilanagillard
- Day Job:
- n/a
- How I Work:
I can record at home or come to you. I'll consider working pro bono on sessions that I feel are particularly alluring or as time allows. For horn section type work and arranging, I definitely require payment. I can arrange for most any sized ensemble. For song creation/production/co-writing we'd have to discuss that in detail.
I don't have paypal set up yet, but i will accept it soon and consider alternate methods of payment.
cheers!
- Experience:
Studio Sessions as a woodwind player
Composer/Arranger
Tours, Shows
- Equipment:
SATB Saxophones
Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Fender Jazz Bass
Fender Stratocaster (american)
Roland RD-150 Keyboard
MBOX 2
Protools 8 LE
Reason 4.0
AT 4040
Shure and Sennheiser Mics
Soundcraft Spirit M4 Mixing console.
Macbook
- Payments:
- This user does not accept PayPal for session payment
i really like ghostly love n doubled up!!!!!!! keep up the excellent werk!!!!
Osby on board! Check it out:
http://www.indabamusic.com/studio_access/gregosby/blog/5787-first-things-first-#comments
I hope all is well. I miss you...
i thought i was good, but doubled up is a for sure to rise in the hip-hop charts(with the right artist on it)!!! Who'd you have in mind? Me!!!!!! Why i would love to!!!!!! just check out my page, because I'm dropping hit after hit!!!!!!
hi meilana,
AAA i'm looking for a good saxophonist to make a solo in my first track on my player (time 4:02) if i like i pay you!
luv what am hearin ova here real dope sista u got major soul i need some live sax on some of my beats u down to work hit me up
JerseyDrummerBoi Lyrical!! Thank U become a fan..beautiful music..
Hi Meielana thanx for the request, love your music by the way, i think you have inflenced me to make a jazzy track . I'll keep u posted. I have just uploaded my latest tracks fell free to check them out.
Listen to my new mix,votes,comments and downloads will be appreciated
Hi Meilana Gillard, thanks for the add!
I uderstand your busy. I was asking if I could do something with the track. How can you like what I did if I havent done anything yet? LOL.
Take care
Peaze
aaaaaaaahhh the fender rhodes magistrally played! beautiful music. really! I am listening all the songs
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! i love you!!!! the sax is a beautiful instrument. i love the jazz w america!!!! ok ok... i'm really happy for your friendship request. :) for shure! in june i go to NYC. i want you listen "live" ok?????
Hey Meilana... St. Paul & I were talking about having you rock an instrumental track on the album just to flip it up... you're already incredibly talented as a producer AND instrumentalist... so it almost makes perfect sense for that... we were thinkin' about a 3-4 minute long song, maybe some relevant vocal samples playing along in the background... you can make the beat & then play whatever you want to do over top of that... we are kind of in need of some jazzy/blues infused hip-hop sounding tracks for the mixtape; so if that's what you'd be interested in doing, that would be PERFECT!
I think it would be a good look on the tape to have one sick instrumental type track for the M.C's out there to write to on the album... i know I would if i liked the song... anyways... hala back and let me know if you're still interested... thanks
p.s. btw...we can wait til after the Classified contest to start putting this together; i myself have been ironing on what i hope to be the winning track too... good luck...
peace K-1
Thanks, who knows.. maybe we'll collab at some point. We seem to have similar styles.
Thanks. When we plan to go out, i thought it would be fun and play in the big city again. I'll at least go to a few jazz clubs and watch some players out there. this way I can make some phone calls and possibly get an idea of whats around at the time.
Sure, let me know when. I have a few projects I'm on now but no deadlines, just my monthly podcast by mid next week. Let me know what you have in mind for a collab.
I have some musical ideas with a sax part I played on keyboards along with rhodes, bass, drums and guitar. I could start a session and invite you when you're ready.
cheers,
DigiTube (Scott)
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wow! you got a pretty diverse catalogue here; awesome work... if are interestes, we'd like to include you as a contributing artist to our "Paper Cha$erz" mixtape... it's a collaborative album of ALL Indaba artists from the community group "Paper Cha$erz"... you should checkout the group and see if you are interested in being a part of this.... again, great stuff... let us know if you are down... thanks ... keep up the good work... peace K-1
Nice work, been a fan since way back of Jazz, Love Dexter Gordon, Jack Mcduff, Black byrds, weather report.
seawind. Miles..D. I love singing to Jazz working on my own stuff now, My things on here were done with my kids, never finished them.. But acid jazz is my thing now along side of RnB
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