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Dave Edwards

Dave Edwards is a NYC metro-based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, producer, and worship leader whose career spans rock clubs, cathedrals, cruise ships, concert halls, the White House and the United Nations. He has performed in venues including CBGB's, Birdland, Lincoln Center, and Rockwood Music Hall, sharing the stage and studio with some of the finest musicians in jazz, rock, and worship music.

Dave has recorded or performed with jazz greats such as Rufus Reid, John Patitucci, Donny McCaslin, Oz Noy, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, John Blake Sr., Ed Palermo, and Todd Williams. He has also recorded or performed with progressive rock band Kansas, disco legend Gloria Gaynor, pop artist Nick Jonas, singer/actress Bethany Joy Lenz, Porter Carroll Jr, and the Ed Palermo Big Band (Frank Zappa project).

As a recording artist and session player, Dave’s drumming and bass work appear in sample libraries and licensing collections including Big Fish Audio’s Vintage Big Band, Funk/Soul City, and Vegas Loops, as well as TV and film scoring projects.

Based in the NYC metro area and available for touring, studio work, and creative collaboration.

Awards

Outstanding drummer and bassist at Berklee High School jazz band festival in 1988.

Don Peretz: Dikson

by Dan Bilawsky
September 6, 2021

Dikson takes its name from a sparsely populated arctic port located in northern Russia. And its music, though heated by strong individualists, largely reflects that origin, embodying the powerfully icy atmosphere of its influence. Masterminded by drummer Don Peretz, this eight-song jazz-tronica journey, nodding toward a remote realm at the top of the world, bumps, grooves and gives off an arresting, frigid energy that's all its own. Combing through hours of playing from the likes of tenor ...

"Dave Edwards is easily the most gifted multi instrumentalist I have ever heard. In addition to a remarkably rich and moving tenor voice, any band would be lucky to have him as their sole Drummer, Guitarist, Pianist or Bassist. To be able to play brilliantly on both a conceptual and technical level on four separate and demanding instruments and also play well on fiddle, dulcimer and other instruments is a marvel to behold." -Rob Mathes, producer (Sting / Springsteen / Lou Reed / Yo-Yo Ma / Renee Flemming)