Album Notes

Mike Henry
Founder, HPCustom Drums
Houston, TX

Mike Henry discovered his love of drumming early on and even built his first drumset out of coffee cans and chopsticks at the age of 12. Growing up in Los Angeles he studied with Mel Zelnick and played with top jazz musicians including Terry Gibbs, Gerald Wilson, and Bill Waltrous. He cut demos and jingles at Walt Disney Studios and shared the drum seat with Mel Zelnick in the John Parker Rehearsal Band. He has played throughout Houston with Paul English, Ken Ward, Dennis Dotson, Tom Cummings, Keith Vivens, Harry Sheppard, Bobby Lyle, Big Percussion ,Green Onions, and leads drum circles and percussion workshops.

After moving to Houston 22 years ago he opened the first specialty percussion/drum store in the Houston area. He is the founder of HPCustom Drums; which builds custom drumsets for drummers across the country. His HP Custom Drums manufacturing business has been featured in the Houston Chronicle. He oversees the retail operation at the Percussion Center, builds custom drums, handles the distribution of WorldMax hardware and snare drums throughout the US and Canada, and teaches and performs with his own jazz group.

Mike Henry
hihatinc@aol.com
713-468-9100


Jodi Roberts
Jodi Roberts is a sound healing catalyst for transformation, ceremonial concert musician, and recording artist using the sound of Tibetan bowls and wind gongs to weave meditative, ceremonial experiences of peace, love, joy and beauty. She is a cultural anthropologist trained in cross-cultural Native American ceremony and healing, spiritual counseling, energy healing, Zen meditation and Tibetan sound healing. She has 20 years of experience and training in mindfulness and meditation techniques for stress reduction and creation of clear choices and actions based on those choices. www.SacredInspiration.com The collaboration with percussion, sax and upright bass has been one of stepping way outside her perceived box. The music carries an intention of fun, play and joy – foot tapping, hip-rocking sacred sound.

Jodi Roberts
www.sacredinspiration.com
512-788-1236