Legendary New Orleans Drummer Zigaboo Modeliste
Zigaboo Modeliste, the "legendary New Orleans drummer," is best known for his 20 years of work with The Meters, "New Orleans' baddest funk band" (Rolling Stone). Widely acknowledged as a band way ahead of its time, the Meters perfected the funk lock that would influence a generation of rhythm bands.
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Music Reviews and Other News
In 2011, our label JZM Records released Zig’s 4th CD “New Life” which has garnered some great press! We are still pushing for a chart listing, if you are in the radio world and have not received the CD, please contact us right away.
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Any Saturday night in Los Angeles is going to have a plethora of entertainment options, but it’s always a special treat to catch one of the most influential music masters of the 20th century in an intimate setting. As the drummer for The Meters, Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste is one of those players.
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Zigaboo Modeliste has proved on again that he is, at very least, one of the funkiest men on the planet with his new album “New Life”. Wildman Steve The Corner News, Oct, 2011 |
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Zigaboo Modeliste gives us the revitalizing funk that we all need. ….a joyful, carefree collection of upbeat dance songs and mellow R & B grooves. “New Life” also demonstrates Zig’s ability to incorporate other styles into his music, from the bubbly poppiness of “Was Not Mean To Be” to the blade’s edge blues guitar solo in “New Life” he supports it all with the backbone of his impeccably funky drumming. Relix Magazine Review, Oct 2011 |
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In Funk, It all starts with the beat, and no drummer is tighter or snappier than Ziggy Modeliste. He’s been compulsively funky over the past decade, releasing a series of ever-grooving solo albums, including his latest “New Life”. LA Weekly October 2011 |
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“New Life” has this whole positive vibe of it. Every Track has this great optimism to it, it’s so upbeat and it’s thinking about the future in a positive way. Jambands October 2011 |
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“A La Modeliste”
In early October Zigaboo was invited by Mark Ronson, Greenlight Pictures, Redlight Management and Ridley Scott Productions to collaborate on a song for a project. |
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RE:Generation Music Project. The project is a series of 5 documentary films made about the history of the music genre with a discovery angle told through the eyes of a DJ/producer in each genre. During the film a collaboration of a song created was titled “A La Modeliste” that also features Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Trombone Shorty and members of the Dap Kings. Click here for the trailer just released today exclusively on Rollingstone.com - website |
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Currently Zig is in studio with Don Lombardi's Drum Channel. www.drumchannel.com finalizing his lst volume of his DVD. Ziggy’s DVD is an educational entertaining historical perspective on Zigaboo Modeliste’s New Orleans traditional yet innovative style of drumming. The DVD "Zigaboo Modeliste's" Vol 1 will be available early 2012 |
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"New Life" is his latest and best.... an amazing slide of funk rendered...provides further proof that Modeliste's fountain of rhythmic imagination show no signs of running dry - Lee Hildebrand, Living Blues- |
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