Napoleon Revels-Bey
Nationality: Moorish-American Citizenship: United States of America
Drummer-Percussionist, Composer and Arranger
Special Arts Awards:
Nassau Grants for the Arts Award, Endorsements & Clinician for Latin Percussion, MRP Drums, Meinel Cymbal Co, Mike Balter Mallets, and Evans Drum Heads.
Current activities:
Founder of Arts-In-Education Programs, Revels-Bey Music: Joy of Jazz Series Music Around the world, and Nassau Performing Arts, Inc. a non-profit arts agency. Performance and education, in the tri-state. Wokshops as wells as residencys, private and group instruction, Drums-Percussion, Piano, and Electronic music. Jazz, Latin-Jazz history.
New York Arts & Arts-in-Education:
2004 Teaching artist for Hofstra University Liberty Partnership Program &
21th Century Community Learning Centers
2002 to Present Teaching Artist staff, Institute for Arts and Culture, Tilles Center
Flushing Council On Culture & The Arts Latin Jazz Exibit
2001 to present, Residency/Workshop/Performance programs NYC Dept.of Education .
2000 Residency and workshop, Freeport High School, Freeport, NY
Tackan ES, Nesconset, NY
1999 PS 108, Arts Horizons, Project Arts, Rosedale, NY
Summer Sports and Arts Program, Staten Island
BOCES Teenage Pregnancy Program, Seaford, NY.
Arts Horizons "Project Read" PS 195,Rosedale, NY.
1998 Panelist NYS Council on The Arts.
1997-8 Friends of The Arts, Arts-In-Education Program "Arts Reach".
1996 East End Arts Council Panelist.
1991 New York State Arts Re-Grant Committee Panelist.
1989 to present, Founder of Arts-In-Education Programs, Revels-Bey Music: Joy of Jazz Series and several music related programs.
1985-89 Festival of Music (Percussion)
Music Consultant:
1994-98 Operation Get Ahead, Computer and Music Program, Roosevelt, NY
1993-4 The Theresa Paplin School., St.Christopher-Ottille, Jamaica
1990-7 International Child Care Educational Center, SUNY/College Old Westbury
1988-98 Ms.Shelly's Upward Prep.School, Roosevelt,NY
Professional Experience:
Broadway Musicals:
Bubblin' Brown Sugar 76-8?Eubie 78-9?Bob Fosse' Dancin 80-83?Rogers & Hart's On Your Toes 85?Ain't Mis'Behavin 79?Cats 91?Jelly's Last Jam 1992 Starmites ? Sweeney Todd ? Fiddler on the Roof? Joseph ? Gypsy ? West Side Story ? Golden Boy ? Chicago?Shades of Harlem ? Cole ? Bye Bye Birdie ? Ice Capades ? 1989?5th Annual Essence Award Program 1992 ? Aretha Franklin Show 1993 ? Englebert Humperdink Show 1993 ? Late Great Ladies of The Blues and Jazz. ? CBS 5th Annual Essence Award Program ? Channel 13, The Making of Jelly's Last Jam ? Berkshire Performing Arts Theatre, National Music Foundation ? Featured on Brooklyn, cable TV BKAT "Cultural Streams", and Long Island Cablevision "Shakas Kaarl".
Other Professional activities
Endorsements & Clinician for Meinel Cymbal Co, Mike Balter Mallets, Evans Drum Heads
Town of Oyster Bay ? Plainview-Old Bethpage ?Town of Hempstead ? Nassau County Parks and Recreation ? Jazz Clubs ? Ruth Brown ? James Leary Big Band ? Harlem Philharmonic ? Cab Calloway ? Bobbie Humphrey ? Gloria Lynn ? Arthur Prysock ? Bud Johnson ? Gladys Knight and the PIPS ? Gregg Hines ? Luther Henderson ? Pharaoh Saunders ? Chris Woods ? Sonny Fortune ? Lectures, for colleges, radio, and television.
Recordings:
?New Mo Swing? Revels-Bey Music, Moor-Moor Records 11247-1
Joe Lee Wilson "Livin High Off Nickels & Dimes" Oblivion Records O.D.5.a
Zulema "RSVP? RCA APL1-1363
Weldon Irvine "Sinbad" RCA APL1-1152, "Spirit Man" RCA APL1-0909
"Cosmic Vortex" RCA APL1-0703, "In Harmony" Strata-East Ses-19749
"Liberated Brother" Nodlew Music 1001, "Time Capsule" Nodlew Music 1002
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