Jazz Articles about Hamid Drake

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Assif Tashar and Hamid Drake with Zohar Fresco in Tel Aviv

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 30, 2007

Assif Tsahar and Hamid Drake with Zohar Fresco Levontin 7, Tel Aviv March 13, 2007, First Set

Israeli reed player Assif Tsahar and Chicago-based and globetrotter drummer Hamid Drake consider themselves as soul bodies, as is apparent by the sub-title of their recently released second duet, Live at Glenn Miller Café: Soul Bodies, Vol. 2 (Ayler, 2006). Tons of joyful spirit that derived from this brotherly feeling abounded while Tsahar hosted Drake in his home-base ...

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Hamid Drake at the Sons d'hiver Festival, Paris

by John Sharpe
February 20, 2007

Hamid Drake & Bindu Sons d'hiver Jazz Festival Theatre Romain Rolland, Villejuif, Paris February 2, 2007

Good things come to those who wait, and Hamid Drake has waited longer than most. After over 30 years in creative music, Bindu is not the first band to be led by Drake, but it is the first to record under his leadership. He released Bindu in 2005 and debuted with his ensemble of the same name ...

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Hamid Drake / Albert Beger / William Parker: Evolving Silence, Vol. 2

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 25, 2006

Evolving Silence, Vol. 2 follows a year after Vol. 1, which documented the first ever meeting in the studio of Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger and the great rhythm section of William Parker and Hamid Drake. This disc was recorded a day after an unforgettable performance by trumpeter Roy Campbell's Pyramid Trio on which Beger was featured as a guest player, on the same day as the first volume.

Like its predecessor, this album features four different perspectives: three original compositions ...

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Hamid Drake

by Kurt Gottschalk
June 10, 2006

When Hamid Drake takes the stage at the Vision Festival on June 16th, the concert will be something of a signpost in the drummer's long career. It won't be, as many have assumed to be the case, the first time Drake has led a band. But it will be the first live appearance of Bindu, the first group he has led on record. Drake has stepped up as bandleader as far back as the '80s, when he ...

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Hamid Drake & Bindu: Bindu

by Ollie Bivens
April 30, 2006

Because jazz is rooted in improvisation, it can readily incorporate other musical genres and instruments. Especially since the '80s and the emergence of so-called world music, sounds and instruments from Asia, Africa and Latin America have found a welcome home in the music. Percussionist Hamid Drake has been among those at the forefront of this fusion.

Bindu (a term in yoga that means prayer) is a mixture of jazz with Middle Eastern, African and Indian musics. The thirteen-minute “Remembering Rituals," ...

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Hamid Drake: Hamid Drake & Bindu

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 13, 2006

Dunque Hamid Drake non è soltanto l’incantevole batterista in grado di nobilitare ogni musica che lo vede partecipe. La sua impresa di leader-compositore in Bindu lo illumina anche come regista sonoro di primo piano, in grado di influenzare benignamente le prove dei suoi amici sassofonisti, sempre fervidi di idee ma che qui trovano accenti espressivi rari. Bindu è concetto indiano non semplice da tradurre, termine polivalente che ha a che fare con la dialettica suono-silenzio e, nella cultura yoga, con ...

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Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake/William Parker: Blue Winter

by Michael Davis
November 29, 2005

This record is a joy. A surprise it isn't. These three men have overlapping histories of development and collaboration of such depth that when they convene nowadays, the results are always inspired. One of Hamid Drake's early mentors was AACM mainstay Fred Anderson, who decided to stay home in Chicago, tend bar, and keep his connections to the muse wide open. Later, Drake connected up with William Parker, and they've played on dozens of excellent records over the past few ...