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Barry Hutcherson

Jazz drummer

About Me

Influenced at an early age in jazz by father, Bobby Hutcherson, Barry was exposed to great jazz musicians such as Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Tony Williams, Ron Carter, Jackie Mclean, Lennie White, George Cables, Joe Sample and many others. Barry has studied with drummers such as Eddie Marshall, Billy Higgins, Joey Heredia, Willy Jones III, Steve Houghton and others. He took up drums at age 13 and has been playing gigs since the early 1980's with notable musicians like Bobby Hutcherson, Joey DeFrancesco, George Cables, Roy Hargrove, Billy Childs, Joshua Redman, Warren Wolf and many others. Barry has performed at many different venues such as Yoshi's, the Monterey Jazz Festival, Stanford University Concert Hall, SF Jazz Center, Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz and the Baked Potato in Los Angeles.

(Profile photo was taken at the Mildred Owen Concert Hall with Anton Schwartz: sax, Grant Levin: piano, Sam Bevan: bassist).