Premik Russell Tubbs

Premik Russell Tubbs is an American saxophonist, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
Premik’s illustrious musical career spans decades and musical styles, collaborating with dozens of top name artists from the halls of New York City, to epic venues around the globe. His eclectic, award-winning music bridges east & west from classic jazz, pop & rock, to Indian Ragas and New Age genres. Equally adept at multiple saxophones, flutes, wind synthesizers EWI, and lap steel guitar
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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. 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 Chandrika Tandon and 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
On November 21, 2021, Premik was married to European/American fashion designer, songwriter/lyricist and spoken word poet Margee Minier-Tubbs. 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.

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'
1987: Whitney Houston – Whitney
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: Mission On Mars - 'Tarana Sessions'
2007: –'Return to the Emerald Beyond'
2008: Premik Russell Tubbs & Uli Geissendoerfer - 'Bangalore Breakdown, Diary'
2009: Pavaka - 'Sabar Sathe'
2010: Premik Russell Tubbs & Steve Booke – Pratyavartana
2010: Shambhu - 'Sacred Love'
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: 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'
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: 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: 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
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