![]() ![]() There she met Amy Millan and Kevin Drew, with whom she would later collaborate in hHead. By her teens she followed her parents’ footsteps by attending the Etobicoke School of the Arts. Her father would often make cassettes of rare and eclectic music for his daughter to listen to and her early influences included Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt. The daughter of poet Paul Haines grew up as a dual citizen of Canada and India. She also has been a guest on albums by Stars, The Crystal Method, KC Accidental, Delerium, The Stills and Jason Collett.Įmily Haines was born in New Delhi, India and raised since the age of 3 in Peterborough, Ontario. Emily Haines released her debut album Cut in Half and Also Double in 1996 and two records under the moniker Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton: the album Knives Don’t Have Your Back in 2006 and the 6-track EP What Is Free to a Good Home? in 2007. Joules Scott-Key and Joshua Winstead have their own side project, Bang Lime. So far, Metric has released six studio albums: Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (2003), Live It Out (2005), Grow Up and Blow Away (2007), Fantasies (2009), Synthetica (2012), and Pagans in Vegas (2015).īesides Metric, Emily Haines and James Shaw also perform with Broken Social Scene. They were based at various times at Toronto, Montreal, London, NYC and LA. The band name was inspired after a sound called “Metric” that was programmed by Shaw on his keyboard. The band members are Emily Haines (vocals, synths, guitar, tambourine), James Shaw (guitar, synths, theremin, backing vocals), Josh Winstead (bass, synths, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums). Zack currently leads his own quartet, performing his original music, and is in the process of planning his first record as a leader.Metric is an indie rock/New Wave band formed in 1998 in Toronto, Canada. If you’re interested in studying with Zack, click here.Īs a composer Zack has had compositions featured on recordings with the Marquès Stinson O’Farrill Trio, the Eco-Music Big Band, and his composition “There’s a Statue of José Martí in Central Park” closes the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra’s Grammy-winning record Cuba: The Conversation Continues ( listen here). He also teaches privately at his home in Brooklyn. ![]() He has been a faculty member of the Flynn Center Latin Jazz for Teens camp in Burlington Vermont for 7 years. He is the director of the Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats youth big band, which offers free instruction to talented and deserving high school students from all boroughs. Zack is also a dedicated educator who has taught in after-school music programs in New York City since 2010. ![]() Zack continues to study a wide variety of subjects independently and with less formal teachers. He is currently working on his Master’s Degree in Jazz Percussion from the Manhattan School of Music. Zack is a reluctantly good academic and received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the CUNY Macaulay Honors College at City College. Zack has studied with incredible musicians such as Dave Meade, Vince Cherico, Victor Jones, Kendrick Scott, Justin Dicioccio, John Riley, Miles Okazaki, Roy Nathanson, Arturo O’Farrill, Joe Gonzalez, and many more. He has collaborated extensively with pianist Albert Marquès, and also performs regularly with saxophonists Livio Almeida and Roy Nathanson, guitarist Jessica Ackerley, and many more. Zack was the founding drummer for both the Fred Ho-founded Eco-Music Big Band, and the Libertè Big Band. He has performed extensively with his father and his brother in many different configurations, including the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Zack has performed with a number of artists of various generations and musical viewpoints. From the European-concert-music-influenced Afro-Cuban big band jazz of their grandfather, Chico O’Farrill, to the tongue-in-cheek free jazz of Carla Bley, to having a rotation of the Beatles, Steely Dan, Earth Wind and Fire, and Oscar Peterson in the car on summer road trips, growing up in the hip-hop generation, and extensive study of music in the new world derived from the African Diaspora, Zack has never viewed music with any particular regard to genre. Growing up in a musical household, the son of classical pianist Alison Deane and jazz pianist, composer, bandleader Arturo O’Farrill, Zack and his brother, the trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, grew up playing and listening to a wide world of music. ![]() Zack O’Farrill is a multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-musical artist who doesn’t believe in the walls that separate us. ![]()
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