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Jaz Sawyer
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About Me
Jaz Sawyer (with one “Z”) began playing drums at age of 2 in the Haight Ashbury district of
San Francisco, California. His musical studies has taken him through the music programs at
the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford Jazz
Workshop and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
Jaz possesses an eclectic and refined personal style of drumming that stems from his deep
roots in his Classical, Jazz, West-African and Afro-Caribbean musical training. Jaz has
worked with many notable artists, including Wynton Marsalis, Abbey Lincoln, George Benson,
Bobby Hutcherson, Jacky Terrasson and Dee Dee Bridgewater in some of the world’s premier
concert venues, including The Blue Note, The Village Vanguard, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center,
Kennedy Center and the Sydney Opera House.