Panama * Spain * New York
30 Yrs. Experience
* Private Classes and Workshops
* Designed for Professional Musicians, Advance Students and Beginners
* Improvisation, Sound Work, All Levels of Music Theory, and Orchestration
* Experimenting With Afro-Caribbean Rhythms and Free Music Art Forms
www.myspace.com/jorgesylvestermusic

Born in Colon, Panama attended the Panama Conservatory of Music and the University of Panama. He received a Bachelor of Science in Music from the State University of New York College at New Paltz in 1981.
A unique innovator in the idiom of creative music, Sylvester’s sound is reminiscent of another time in jazz history when artists like Dolphy and Ornette were exploding on the scene and experimenting with concepts that would ultimately revolutionize music at large. A throwback to the future, Mr. Sylvester has been on the cutting edge of that scene since 1980 when he first came to New York City.
His blend of African-Caribbean Rhythms with new music is what gives Sylvester his distinguished voice. An impressive composer and arranger, his music moves, entices and stirs the imagination, as visual as it is physical, his ability to transform colors into sounds and sounds into textures place him in the company of the great expressionist painters.

DISCOGRAPHY:
New Double CD just released on Sylvester’s label Lizoka Music : Following The Line/ Live in New York City is the documentation of his 1999 quartet featuring Monte Croft on vibraphone, Jeff Carney on bass, Terreon Gully on drums, and a special appearance by pianist James Hurt on the Bud Powell composition Willow Grove.
2008 release Waldron Madhi Ricks with trumpeter, composer Waldron Ricks, Danny Grissett, Jaleel Shaw, Nashiet Waits and Vicente Archer, featuring Jorge’s Quintet version of his composition “Playground.”
Co-leader of the quartet Asymmetry with pianist, Lucian Ban, Sylvester recorded a cd for Jazzaway records which was released in December, 2005 entitled Playground – which is also the name of the title track a composition written by Sylvester.
In The Ear of the Beholder, 2001 (Billboard’s Spotlight, Feb. 2001) Jazz Magnet Records, features: Donald Nicks on electric bass and Bobby Sanabria on drums and is Sylvester’s second release as a leader since the critically acclaimed MusiCollage (Postcards, 1996, re-released on Arkadia Records featured Claudio Roditi – trumpet, Marvin Sewell – guitar, Monte Croft – vibraphone – Gene Jackson – drums, Santi Debriano – acoustic bass and Bobby Sanabria – percussion. It received a **** rating from Downbeat Magazine and won a Billboard Critics’ Choice award).

Jorge Sylvester’s distinctive alto saxophone sound is imbued with the volatility of Caribbean basin’s complex mosaic, transformed and focused by the probing musical linguistics pioneered by the great saxophonists of modern jazz. Jorge’s composer’s imagination is the matchless structural coherence of his improvisational work.
Violinist, Composer Ramsey Ameen
12/2005 Tribes Magazine