Premik Russell Tubbs

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 Top International Venues. His work incorporates elements of jazz, pop, rock, Indian classical music, and New Age music. He is a virtuoso master on multiple saxophones, all flutes, wind synthesizers (EWI), and lap steel guitar. To date, Premik’s artistry appears on over 300 albums.

https://www.rootsmusicreport.com/reviews/view/1975/album-review-of-oneness-world-by-premik-russell-tubbs-and-margee-minier-tubbs

https://www.jwvibe.com/single-post/premik-russell-tubbs-margee-minier-tubbs-oneness-world Career 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. 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.

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

Premik is married to 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 2025, Premik and his wife Margee co-composed Oneness-World, receiving four(4) nominations in The Intercontinental Music Awards in the Best World Music category, and four(4) nominations in The World Entertainment Awards, a genre-blending album featuring multi-Grammy® Award Winning violinist Zach Brock. In 2024, together they created Margee's acclaimed children's album Pathways.

Discography

1974: Mahavishnu Orchestra – Visions of the Emerald Beyond 1976: Narada Michael Walden – Garden of Love Light 1977: Narada Michael Walden – I Cry, I Smile 1980: Carlos Santana & Herbie Hancock – The Swing of Delight 1980: Premik Russell Tubbs - 'Transformation Dawn' 1982: Premik Russell Tubbs - 'Run To Tomorrow's Sun' 1984: Lonnie Liston Smith – Silhouettes 1985: Lonnie Liston Smith – Rejuvenation 1985: Clarence Clemons – Hero 1985: Whitney Houston – Whitney Houston 1985: Premik Russell Tubbs - Endless Energy, Sleepless Speed 1985: Premik Russell Tubbs - Jharna-Kala, Song-Garland 1986: Jermaine Stewart – Frantic Romantic 1986: Premik Russell Tubbs & Shambhu - 'Equinox' 1986: Premik Russell Tubbs & Clarence Clemons - 'BODY, HEART & SOUL 1987: Whitney Houston – Whitney 1987: Premik Russell Tubbs - 'A New World Of Peace' 1988: Yoko Oginome - 'VERGE OF LOVE' 1989: Yoko Oginome – Verge of Love 1989: Regina Belle – Stay with Me 1989: Kid 'N Play – Face the Nation 1992: Calverly – Avalon 1999: Edgar Paterson Mills - "Buddha on Mars' 1999: John Caraberis - 'Boundless' 2000: Luiz Simas - Recipe For Rhythm 2001: Premik Russell Tubbs – Equinox 2002: Ali Appel – Crooked Line 2004: Premik Russell Tubbs – Mission-Transcendence 2005: Kristin Hoffmann - 'Real' 2006: Gerald Jay Markoe – Celestial Music for Sitar 2006: Gerald Jay Markoe - 'Evening Star Meditation' 2006: Gerald Jay Markoe - 'Cosmic Orbit Meditation' 2006: Mission On Mars - 'Tarana Sessions' 2007: [The Mahavishnu Project] –'Return to the Emerald Beyond' 2008: Premik Russell Tubbs & Uli Geissendoerfer - 'Bangalore Breakdown, Diary' 2008: Steve Booke - 'Life Vibrations' 2009: Pavaka - 'Sabar Sathe' 2010: Premik Russell Tubbs & Steve Booke – Pratyavartana 2010: Shambhu - 'Sacred Love' 2011: Dean Boland - 'Soul Whispers' 2011: Premik Russell Tubbs - 'I Prayerfully Bow' 2011: Sri Chinmoy - Aum Meditation with Flute 2011: Fiona Joy Hawkins – Christmas Joy 2012: Fiona Joy Hawkins – Sensual Journeys 2012: Ronnda Cadle – Will's Embrace 2012: Dan Kennedy – Intuition 2012: Heidi Anne Breyer – Beyond the Turning 2012: Rebecca Harrold – The River of Life 2012: Ronnda Cadle - 'Will's Embrace' 2012: Masako - Masako 2013: Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon - 'Soul March' 2013: Asher Barkin – Birchos Avicha 2013: Shambhu – Dreaming of Now 2013: David Gale, Ken Doma - 'Cold Summer' 2014: Masako – Call of the Mountains 2014: Premik Russell Tubbs & Uli Geissendoerfer - 'Passport to Happyness' 2014: TriBeCaStan - Coal Again 2014: Ryan Michael Richards - 'Experiences' 2014: Andrew Kutt - 'Eagle Medicine' 2015: Ikhlaq Hussain - Destiny 2015: Neil Tatar - Learning To Fly 2015: Lynn Yew Evers - 'Elysian' 2015: Jeffrey Seeman - 'Everything In Between' 2015: Andrew Kutt - 'Earth Songs' 2015: TriBeCaStan - Goddess Polka Dottess 2016: Richard Carr - Matters of Balance 2016: Patrick Carmichael - 'Sanctuary' 2016: Kelly Andrew - 'Rendezvous' 2016: Lawrence Blatt - 'Longitudes & Latitudes' 2016: David Clavijo - 'Sitting on The Seawall' 2017: Shambhu - 'Soothe' 2017: Neil Tatar - 'After The Rain' 2017: Gina Leneé - 'Red Diamonds' 2017: Andrew Kutt - 'Bridge To Happiness' 2017: Alan Matthews - 'The Ineffable' 2017: Jennifer DeFrayne - 'Sisu' 2017: Bobby Rozario - Rudra 2018: Brenda Warren - Beautiful Journey 2018: Shambhu - Lilac Skies 2018: Wivajoy, Fiona Joy Hawkins - 'Fair and White' 2019: Masako - Underwater Whisperer 2019: Todd Mosby - 'Open Waters' 2019: Robert Linton - 'Adrift in Wonder' 2019: Todd Mosby - 'Eagle Mountain' 2019: Ann Sweeten - Before Today, Beyond Tomorrow 2020: Masako - Hidden Flowers 2020: Todd Mosby - Aerial Views 2020: Robert Linton - 'In The Calm of Christmas' 2021: Bill Buchen - 'Zero Sum Game' 2021: Ryan Michael Richards - 'More Than Time' 2022: Laila Faerman - Awake Arise! 2022: Shambhu - 'Life Passage' 2023: Masako - ASCENT- Call of the Mountains II 2023: Kristin Hoffmann - Rain Shine 2023: The Folklorkestra - A Strange Day In June 2023: Ann Sweeten - Love Walks Through Rain 2023: Jon Perl's Dark Light - 'Link In The Chain' 2023: Laila Faerman - 'Beauty Came To Me' 2024: Luiz Simas - Simpatia Total 2024: Masako - Lost there Found here 2024: David Lindsay - With You 2024: Margee Minier-Tubbs - Pathways 2024: Peter Kfoury - The Journey Together 2025: Margee Minier-Tubbs - 'Oneness-World' 2025: Masako - 'Dreaming Northern' 2025: Assia Ahhatt - 'Born in Kyiv' 2025: Jonathan Perl - 'Universal Return' 2025: Alex Kaufman - 'Father' 2025: Charu Suri - 'Shayan' 2025: Ann Sweeten - 'Still' 2025: Shambhu - Transcendence 2025: Robert Linton - Away Into A Memory 2025: Bobby Rozario - Healer 2025: David Belmont - Castillo Music: 2001-2010, Mask 2025: David Lindsay - Follow The Sun 2026: Nainnoh - Broken Waters 2026: Nainnoh - MZE 2026: Jennifer DeFrayne - Soul Love 2026: Margee Minier-Tubbs & Premik Russell Tubbs - In The Stillness Of The Stars 2026: David Fogel - Symphonina Stories: New Horizons 2026: The Grandbouche Project - Dust 2026: Will Ackerman - Home