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Justin Faulkner

Justin Faulkner constantly performs in the Philadelphia area with some of the world's best known artists.

He studies classical music with Sam Ruttenburg at the Settlement Music School and is trained in jazz at the Kimmel Center and Clef Club on the Avenue of the Arts. He plays regularly at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts with the Youth Jazz Ensemble. He is also the current premier and house drummer for the Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts.

In addition to performance, he is seen playing every Sunday at the West Park Church in Philadelphia, PA.

He currently plays with the J Tyme Experience which is his own personal group, Terrence Brown Quartet, Will Wright Quartet, Rohm and Hass Jazz Ensemble, the Orrin Evans Trio, the Paul Sipio Sextet and various other groups. He has been mentored by many musicians such as: Daren Metz, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Dennis Chambers, Shawn Pelton, Christian McBride.

He has performed with Odean Pope, Tyrone Brown, Aaron Graves, Ella Gahnt, Peter Nero, Bootise Barnes, Jimmy Heath, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Yoichi Uzeki, Ravi Coltrane , Julian Presley , Orrin Evans featuring the group Luv Park, Mike Boone, Sam Reed, Craig McIver, Tony Williams, Sherry Wilson Butler, Denise King, Victor Wooten and Royel “Future Man” Wooten, Eric Lewis, Duane Eubanks, Lee Smith, Bobby McFerrin, Tim Warfield, and James Moody, Eric Revis, JD Walter, Jafar Barron, Farid Barron, among others.

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Album Review

Branford Marsalis: Belonging

Read "Belonging" reviewed by Thierry De Clemensat


It appears to be that time of year when all musicians with ties to New Orleans unveil their latest albums. This time, we are graced with a release from one of the most illustrious members of the Marsalis family. This remarkably elegant album represents Branford Marsalis and his quartet's vision of Belonging, the seminal record Keith Jarrett recorded in 1974 (ECM). This highly sophisticated reinterpretation borders on an outright rewriting of the original, with the crème de la crème of ...

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Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)

Read "The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Musicista non ancora quarantenne, da noi poco conosciuto,Caleb Wheeler Curtis sassofonista, trombettista, compositore newyorchese, licenzia il suo album più ambizioso, un doppio CD che già dal titolo fa presagire qualcosa di assai lontano da un rassicurante mainstream. The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery, questo il titolo (ogni riferimento a Frank Zappa è puramente casuale), è un doppio CD che presenta due differenti trii, registrati a pochi mesi di distanza. Nel primo, che porta ...

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Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging

Read "Belonging" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


For his Blue Note debut, saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his long-standing quartet--pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner--hit the sweet spot again and again and again, reinterpreting and re-imagining Keith Jarrett's epochal 1974 ECM classic, Belonging. Not only did Jarrett introduce the world to his no-holds-barred fear-no-idea European quartet--saxophonist Jan Garbarek, bassist Palle Danielsson and drummer Jon Christensen--he was also in one of the most creative periods of his decades-long illuminating career. Consider the tense free-wheeling drive ...

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Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)

Read "The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)" reviewed by Paul Rauch


Caleb Wheeler Curtis is one of the more daring musicians in jazz today, not only in his approach to playing the saxophone, but in his fearless dedication to his own musical conceptions, expressed clearly in his original compositions. That daring and dedication can be equally attributed to many of the shakers and movers of modern jazz, including one Thelonious Sphere Monk. On his double album release, The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani, 2024), Curtis ...

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Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)

Read "The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)" reviewed by Troy Dostert


There has always been room in jazz for those creative minds who can bridge the gap between the heart of tradition and the leading edge of change. In the world of saxophonists, Thomas Chapin, Arthur Blythe, Julius Hemphill or David Murray easily come to mind. Multi-instrumentalist Caleb Wheeler Curtis has similarly explored this terrain for years, and like his forebears, he often does his best work in a trio format. His August in March (Imani Records, 2023) was an imaginative ...

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Tom Guarna: Spirit Science

Read "Spirit Science" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Guitarist / composer Tom Guarna uses geometric concepts and patterns as a starting point on Spirit Science, his eighth album as leader, pairing its mathematical precision with spiritual awareness to more faithfully represent his musical point of view. Be that as it may, Guarna's handiwork must of course be appraised for its perception and effect on the listener, not for any tenets on which it is based. In other words, when all the premises have been explored, what ...

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Tom Guarna: Spirit Science

Read "Spirit Science" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann


With The Wishing Stones (Destiny Records, 2017) New York-based guitarist Tom Guarna released something of a breakthrough album, featuring a prominently cast quartet made up of Brian Blade on drums, John Patitucci on bass and pianist Jon Cowherd. With that album Guarna perfected his personal style of composition, which sees post-bop language taken to more extensive structures filtered through modern sonic production values. Spirit Science picks up where that album left off and delivers another engaging set of modern post-bop ...

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Justin Faulkner Drum Clinic

Justin Faulkner Drum Clinic

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Belonging

Blue Note Records
2025

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The True Story of...

Imani / 88 Keys Productions
2024

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Fly With the Wind

BCM&D Records
2023

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Spirit Science

Destiny Records
2020

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Oska T

From: The True Story of Bears and the...
By Justin Faulkner

The First Question

From: The True Story of Bears and the...
By Justin Faulkner

All Members

From: Fly With the Wind
By Justin Faulkner

The Trion Re

From: Spirit Science
By Justin Faulkner

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