Nasar Abadey & SUPERNOVA
Nasar Abadey, drums
Joe Ford, saxophone
Allyn Johnson, piano
James King, bass
Drummer and Composer Nasar Abadey is the founder, leader and driving force of SUPERNOVA. This band performs music from the threshold of Jazz to beyond space and time, while having an artistic license to express their compositions through traditional African rhythms, bebop, fusion, Afro-Cuban, Afro Brazilian, modal and free form. Most recently SUPERNOVA® was selected by the US State Department and the Lincoln Center as Ambassadors to tour with the American Music Abroad Rhythm Road.
The DC Jazz Festival bestowed its annual Lifetime Achievement Awards on Nasar Abadey, as well as Chucho Valdés, in recognition of their stellar contributions to the art form. He is Professor of Jazz Percussion at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD; teaches privately, and is a clinician as well. Abadey has performed with Pharoah Sanders, Gary Bartz, Andrew White, Sonny Fortune, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Jones, Bobby Hutcherson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sun Ra, Russell Malone, Malachi Thompson, and many other jazz greats.
