Meilana Gillard
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About Me
- 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
Meilana McLean Gillard is an exciting, young tenor saxophonist and composer residing in Brooklyn, New york. She enjoys creating music that is not held captive by any particular genre or label and takes full advantage of NYC's vast artistic culture. Most-recently, you can find Meilana performing at various New York city venues like Minton's Playhouse, Birdland, The Jazz Standard and Sweet Rhythm with such artists as Charli Persip and Tyshawn Sorey. Meilana recently recorded with Joan Osborne and Greg Osby. Gillard leads her own groups "Quartet/Quintet Nouveau" and "Heartland" and co-leads "Symmetry" with Baritone Saxophonist, Lauren Sevian (Mingus Big Band). Meilana has been a member of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra since 2001. She has performed with artists such as: Lou Rawls, Rene Marie, Johny Mathis, Mary Wilson, Debbie Reynolds, Toni Tennile, Benny Rietveld, Jeff "Tain" Watts and Gary Bartz. She has also performed at some of the most notable jazz festivals in the word including: North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, The Vienna Jazz Festival, Jazz a Vienne (France) and New York’s very own Jazzmobile.
Gillard was born in London, UK in 1981. She relocated to the miniscule village of Ridgeway, Ohio at a very young age where she began to study music at age 7 and saxophone at age 11. Through her teens she won several awards for her efforts as a jazz soloist. Gillard studied for 2 years at Ohio State University under "Beatles" saxophonist, Gene Walker where she became developed an obsession for composition and arranging. This obsession would then lead to Gillard becoming a professional producer/composer/arranger. She abandoned her small-town life in pursuit of knowledge and the desire to play with musicians of the highest calibur. Meilana moved to New York City in 2003 and began study at the New School University Jazz Program (class of 2005) where she studied privately with Seamus Blake, George Garzone, Tim Price and Dave Glasser.
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- Band or Group:
- Meilana Gillard's Quartet Nouveau
- 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, Dr. Dre
- Day Job:
- n/a
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- How I Work:
It depends on what the recording will be used for. Will it be for a profit? Charity? Fun? etc. I will work in all kinds of situations, but only legitimate people need apply. I will not deal with any kind of dishonest business practices! Thanks! :)
I don't have paypal set up yet, but i will accept it soon.
cheers!
- Experience:
read my bio
- Equipment:
SATB Saxophones
Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Fender Jazz Bass
Fender Stratocaster (american)
Roland RD-150 Keyboard
MBOX 2
Protools 7.3 LE
Reason 3.0
Shure and Sennheiser Mics
- Payments:
- This user does not accept PayPal for session payment
No problem... let's hear some of those more of those great arrangements on Indaba asap!
Cheers
Hiyo! When you have a minute, I would love it if you'd listen to Dandy Lion, my Mariah Carey remix. If you're feelin' my jammms, then feel free to vote for it here: http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/2192. Thanks for your time! Paz y Pesos, Gejius
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stop by the page and tell me what you think about my mariah remix
Wow,you um...I was gonna say tickle the ivories,lol.2am at the moment. Whadaya call sax keys anyways? Well you tickle em quite nicely,love melodic stuff.I gotta keep you in mind for some future work.Keep doin it!
I can't beleive she used that picture! That's so nice! I feel so honored! We will have to do a big hang in May. Hopefully, we will be mixing your recording by then. It will be so great to see her again!
so, first myspace...then facebook...and now indaba!
well, maybe one day we will meet in person.....
this music is beautiful, btw. really very nice.
hey dear! am I going hear the new music soon? hope so
the other one didn't work out - I found out on the day we landed here-
he was smarter then us probably. Tamara is great and I starting to play more as I get some help from my mom. did i tell you I have a new nord ( i bought it before we left ) so now you have to explain me the whole thing here
hugs!
really miss New York and you guys.
It was great to see you at the studio the other evening! See you at the next Egg session!
Nice! Thanks for checking the site out... You have to get some music up here too!
Hello Meilana like me much pleasure your work and I would like to hear mine I'm not musing but I have my own recording studio and I would like to know who you think.