Alan Palmer - Lecture on South African Pianist Hotep Idris Galeta

ABOUT

Lecture on South African Pianist Hotep Idris Galeta 

About the artist: Alan Jay Palmer, known as BAP (Bad Alan Palmer), is a Washington D.C.-born jazz pianist, composer, and educator with roots in the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Mentored by Jackie McLean, Alan studied at the University of Hartford’s Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, where he became McLean’s assistant and the first student to teach his famed course, "The Origin of Man and Music." Alan toured internationally with McLean’s quintet, contributing compositions to the album Rhythm of the Earth. Now based in NYC, Alan leads the BAP Trio and The New Soil Big Band, composes original works, and conducts workshops worldwide.