Premik Russell Tubbs
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Premik Russell Tubbs | |
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 Premik Russell Tubbs in 2022 | |
| Background information | |
| Genres | Pop, jazz, East-West Fusion world New Age |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, producer, arranger |
| Instruments | Saxophone, flute, wind synthesizer, lap steel guitar, Lyricon |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Website | www |
Premik Russell Tubbs is an American saxophonist, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His career spans several decades and includes collaborations with a range of artists, with performances in New York City and at international venues. His work incorporates elements of jazz, pop, rock, Indian classical music, and New Age music. He performs on multiple saxophones, flutes, wind synthesizers (EWI), and lap steel guitar.
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Since the 1970s he worked with a wide range of artists such as John McLaughlin, Narada Michael Walden, Herbie Hancock, Jackson Browne, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Yoko Oginome, Cecil McBee, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Jean-Luc Ponty, T.M. Stevens, Wayne Shorter, Will Ackerman and many more.In December 1974, Premik Russell Tubbs performed on John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu’s album Visions of The Emerald Beyond. Then in January 1975 Premik became an official member of The Mahavishnu Orchestra and toured all of Continental Europe and the United States with them. [1] His saxophone was featured on hits like Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know", Regina Belle's "Baby Come to Me and Jermaine Stewart's "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off". In 1975, Premik performed with Carlos Santana to a sold out audience at The Nassau Colosseum and continued to perform with Santana into the 1980s. Premik performed on Carlos’ 1980 album, The Swing of Delight.
In 1983, Premik joined Lonnie Liston Smith's band, along with bass player Cecil McBee and in 1985 he played the Montreux Jazz Festival and recorded two albums with them. From 1991 to 1994 he toured with Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan's violinist). They also opened shows for Spyro Gyra. The following years, he toured with jazz violinist Julie Lyonn Lieberman, Clara Ponty, Wendy Starland and in 2007 as a member of Radio Massacre International. In November 2011 he toured with both Grammy Winning musical artist Chandrika Tandon as well as Steve Gorn.
Premik has shared the stage and performed with Ravi & Anoushka Shankar, and has toured internationally around the world with Indian Violinist L. Subramaniam. Beginning in 2008, and through 2020, Premik was invited ten times to perform at Carnegie Hall in the Revlon Concert for the Rainforest Fund featuring Sting, Elton John, James Taylor, , Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Hudson, Will Ferrell, Rosanne Cash and Vince Gill and many more. On April 25, 2014, Premik performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Croydon, England. [2]
Premik has recorded several world music records along with spiritual master Sri Chinmoy, Steve Booke and Shambhu Vineberg as well as music for different short films.
Since 2010, Premik is the on-call wind player for Grammy Award winning Producer & Artist Will Ackerman, founder of Windam Hill Records and has performed on dozens if his productions.
To date, Premik has performed at Carnegie Hall to a sold-out audience, 14 times: 1. April 13th, 1980, Carlos Santana & Premik Russell Tubbs Duo Performance 2. April 13th, 1982, @The Sri Chinmoy Peace Concert 3. 2008 with Sting during Sting & Trudie Styler’s Concert for the Rainforest 4. 2010 with Sting during Sting & Trudie Styler’s Concert for the Rainforest 5. January 16th, 2012, with Karl Jenkins “The Peace Makers” 6. 2012 with Sting during Sting & Trudie Styler’s Concert for the Rainforest 7. January 20th 2014 with Karl Jenkins, “The Music of Karl Jenkins” Concert 8. 2014 with Sting during Sting & Trudie Styler’s Concert for the Rainforest 9. 2015 with Lynn Yew Evers, Dawn of Peace 10. December 2016 with Sting during Sting & Trudie Styler’s Concert for the Rainforest 11. 2017 FLOW Concert with Will Ackerman, Fiona Joy, Jeff Oster & Laurence Blatt 12. 2018 FLOW Concert with Will Ackerman, Fiona Joy, Jeff Oster & Laurence Blatt 13. December 2019 with Sting during Sting & Trudie Styler’s Concert for the Rainforest 14. July 2025 with Charu Suri performing SHAYAN
On November 21, 2021, Premik married European/American fashion designer, songwriter/lyricist and spoken word poet Margee Minier-Tubbs, producer on the Grammy® Nominated album by Charu Suri, SHAYAN, Premik also being a featured flute player on this album. In 2024, together they created Margee's acclaimed children's album Pathways. In 2025, Premik and his wife Margee co-composed Oneness-World, a genre-blending album featuring multi-Grammy® Award Winning violinist Zach Brock.
