J Mage Jeremy Mage started playing the piano when he was eight and meddling with synthesizers when he was nine. He grew up in the shadow of the Schwangunk mountains of upstate NY, riding the trailways bus to NYC on weekends where he was exposed regularly to some SERIOUS bass... the dawn of hip hop... Jeremy studied Indian classical music in Varanasi and with flautist Steve Gorn and unsung veena superwoman Ranganayaki Rajgopolan. He studied Cuban timba in Havana with pianist Pupi Perdosa of Los Van Van, and jazz theory and practice with a number of great mentors, first and foremost luminary composer/pianist/percussionist James Hurt.J Mage plays keyboards all over town and all over the map; with soul vocalist Maya Azucena, Guinean visiting artists Mai Kouyate and Amadou Barry, Bicasso and the Grouch of California hip hop crew Living Legends, radical performance group The San Francisco Mime Troupe, Velour artists Beetroot, dub collective the Easy Star All Stars, and Ogans from Bahia Brazil. J Mage leads the new york all star group Crazy Heart |