About
Peter Apfelbaum is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, tenor saxaphonist, drummer and composer born in Berkeley, CA. He first emerged on the jazz scene in the late 1970s, performing with Carla Bley from 1978–1982 and touring with Warren Smith and Karl Berger. Around this time Apfelbaum also studied and worked with musicians involved with the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York. He graduated from Berkeley High School in 1978, in a class that included jazz pianist Benny Green. His contributions to jazz music are vast, and as the founding member of the Hieroglyphics Ensemble, he merged the worlds of free form afro beat with wild exploratory jazz. Surrounded by players Will Bernard, Natalie Cressman, Barney McAll, Willard Dyson and Jill Ryan, this project is sure to get people moving on the dance floor.
