Joe Caploe Biography
Nextagem is percussionist / composer Joe Caploe's independent CD label
dedicated to releasing his original music as well original music of other
other artists. Caploe started studying percussion with Stuart Marrs while
living in La Paz, Bolivia. His experience of living in Bolivia influenced
his interest in music from other cultures. Returning to the San Francisco
Bay Area to go to high school he played in Rainbow Feel, a band that played
original music influenced by Herbie Hancock, Mile Davis, John Coltrane, Sun
Ra, John McLaughlin, McCoy Tyner, Tower of Power, the Grateful Dead, Santana
and the rest of the thriving Bay Area music scene. He continued studying
percussion at San Jose State with Anthony Cirone (San Francisco Symphony) ,
Dan Sabonovich and composer Lou Harrison, putting himself through school
playing in funk and jazz bands. His first original band to work in the Bay
Area was Egress, comprised of like minded fellow students from San Jose
State. He then worked with David Ladd & Video Jazz a popular Latin Jazz
group that played in clubs through the Bay Area. Feeling the need to study
World Music he left the Bay Area to attend California Institute of the Arts
in Valencia CA where he received a Masters of Fine Arts in 1985. At Cal Arts
Caploe studied with John Bergamo, Ed Mann, Charlie Haden, Neoman Wenten,
Taranath Rao, Francis Awe and the Ladzekpo Brothers. Upon returning to the
Bay Area Caploe lead various groups including Red Alert, Cielo with Louie
Romero, New World Percussion, the Classic Jazz Quartet and Neck N Neck, the
band he recorded "Hearsay"with, his first release on Nextagem. He also
found time to work and record with Todd Phillips, Tom Taylor, Babtunde
Olatunji and African Rain, Darbi Slick, Joe Weed, Smith Dobson, Manabu
Ishikawa, the San Jose Civic Light Opera, the San Jose Symphony, Swapan
Chauduri and the Ali Akbar Percussion Ensemble, the Ian Dogole Unit, Martan
Mann, Music Theater Group of New York and Claudio Amaral among many others.
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