Charles Xavier Jr

New Bedford, MA

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Travels up to 200 miles

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When I Think of You LIVE at the Brick and Mortar Music Hall

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SATORI Quartet at Gallery X in New Bedford, Mass.

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The Farmer In The Dell

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Happy Note Jazz Ensemble_ Jazz Improvisation

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Guitarist Russell Golub and Charles Xavier

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Charles Xavier Jazz Trio

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Xmas Vibe featuring Charles Xavier

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The Xman Electronic Band

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Vibraphonist Charles Xavier

Overview

I’m excited to be performing in the New England area as a solo show or an ensemble for special occasions
(no weddings at this time). POP UP PIANO RV SHOWS. PERFORM FROM THE BACK OF MY RV. PULL UP & PLAY.
I have a generator to power my system! OUTDOOR SHOWS!

Composer/Pianist/Electronic musician Charles Xavier offers his creative music stylings to venues, art centers and festivals/fairs. For the past decade he’s performed in the San Francisco area at clubs, fairs, corporate events, wineries and art centers.

Charles has a new album “Pandemic Piano” & he's performed extensively in California and New England-AHA Night, Madeira Feast, Harpo’s, AS220, Living Room, Lillypad, Gallery X, Corks.


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About

The artistic demands of jazz music have always been the driving force behind the San Francisco Bay Area-based drummer/vibraphonist and composer Charles Xavier, although his music cannot be classified as jazz.

Happy Note Records recording artist, Charles Xavier, aka: The XMan, released his latest CD, Perfect Mold, on Nov. 24th 2013. Perfect Mold, the fourth release that features Charles Xavier, a multi-instrumentalist and composer who plays genre-fusing original compositions and puts his unique spin on rock and pop classics including Hey Jude, Blowing in the Wind, The Beat Goes On, Fire and Rain, Eleanor Rigby, and Leaving on a Jet Plane.

Charles Xavier has been called many things, including a “Rara Avis” – a rare and unique person or thing - by the legendary Down Beat Magazine. Therefore, it’s not unusual that this “true music Polymath,” according to The Mondo Project’s Mark Saleski, has released Xmas Vibe in stereo and 5.1 surround sound, possibly the only Holiday music offering available in the latter format. Xavier describes Xmas Vibe as “a World Music-meets George Winston and Gary Burton-influenced soundscape of Holiday favorites with a blend of innovative and unusual Rock, Soul, Funk and New Age styles that will appeal to a wide range of listeners.”

About Charles Xavier

The artistic demands of jazz have always been the driving force behind vibraphonist, drummer, and composer Charles Xavier, even though his eclectic music evades generic category. A jazz drummer from the age of sixteen, San-Francisco-Bay-Area-based Xavier was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where the East Coast jazz scene shaped and defined his musical tastes.

Xavier studied arranging and composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston. At the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York, he studied drumming with Jack DeJohnette, Bobby Moses, Stu Martin, and Jumma Santos, and creative ensemble performance under the guidance of Karl Berger, Dave Holland, Kalaparusha, and John Abercrombie.


About Happy Note Records
Happy Note Records is multifaceted entertainment company that is currently developing its musical production capabilities so that the business can promote the music of its featured artist Charles Xavier from the onset of its formalized operations. The business produces artist tracks and downloadable media for each production completed by the business. HNR is designed to be a full service record label, promotion, and distribution company, focused initially on the career of Charles Xavier, a San Francisco-based, nationally touring musician, with the future potential for the label to apply this business model to other "up and coming" and “established” recording artists.

Soundbite: Bay Area composer and percussionist Charles Xavier has released four CD’s on his label Happy Note Records and he is performing as The XMan with several music ensembles performing his eclectic music for creative minds…

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