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Jimmy Macbride
Jimmy Macbride is a drummer/composer based in New York City. He has performed with a wide variety of artists including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Barron, Jimmy Greene, and Adam Rogers. Coming from an artistic family (his father is a composer and mother is a visual artist), Jimmy began playing drums at age 3 and gravitated toward jazz music at an equally young age. Jimmy is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied privately with Carl Allen, Billy Drummond and Kenny Washington. He is a regular performer throughout New York City, performing at such venues as Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Smalls, The Jazz Gallery, and The Blue Note. His musical talents have also taken him worldwide, touring across Europe, Asia, and North America. Jimmy has also appeared at some of the world’s most famous venues, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, and Newport Jazz Festival, among others. He performs regularly with different artists including Nir Felder, Eldar Djangirov, Manuel Valera, Lucas Pino’s Nonet, Nick Finzer's Hear & Now, and the Roxy Coss Quintet. In addition, he can be seen playing with many of New York’s most creative and forward-thinking artists, including Lage Lund, Melissa Aldana, Ben Street, Kevin Hays, Fabian Almazan, Matt Brewer, Michael Rodriguez, and Dayna Stephens, among many others. He is also an active recording artist, appearing on over 40 albums to date.
Jimmy Macbride is a drummer/composer based in New York City. He has performed with a wide variety of artists including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Barron, Jimmy Greene, and Adam Rogers. Coming from an artistic family (his father is a composer and mother is a visual artist), Jimmy began playing drums at age 3 and gravitated toward jazz music at an equally young age. Jimmy is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied privately with Carl Allen, Billy Drummond and Kenny Washington. He is a regular performer throughout New York City, performing at such venues as Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Smalls, The Jazz Gallery, and The Blue Note. His musical talents have also taken him worldwide, touring across Europe, Asia, and North America. Jimmy has also appeared at some of the world’s most famous venues, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, and Newport Jazz Festival, among others. He performs regularly with different artists including Nir Felder, Eldar Djangirov, Manuel Valera, Lucas Pino’s Nonet, Nick Finzer's Hear & Now, and the Roxy Coss Quintet.
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Meron Menares Macbride: Live at The Sound Room
by Neil Duggan
Recorded during their 2025 tour, Live At The Sound Room captures Daniel Meron's trio in peak form. The trio was formed in 2024, but Israeli pianist Meron, Chilean bassist Pablo Menares and US drummer Jimmy Macbride have been collaborating for over 15 years in the New York City jazz ecosystem. The album spans 17 years of Meron's creative output and his equalitarian approach to the trio, which provides a platform for each musician to lead. Their collective exploration ...
Continue ReadingAlex Wintz: Collage
by Joshua Weiner
Grammy-nominated guitarist Alex Wintz is not only a frequent performer, both with his own group and with artists such as the trumpeters Etienne Charles and Jeremy Pelt and trombonist Nick Finzer, but also an educator on the faculty of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Jazz for Teens program and a clever composer. Collage features six excellent original tunes along with the jazz standard “The Shadow of Your Smile" and George Harrison's “Isn't It A Pity" and follows Wintz's two ...
Continue ReadingNoah Garabedian: Quartets and Solos
by Jack Bowers
If ever an album were in need of liner notes--or at least some further clarification--it is this one, Quartets and Solos, by New York-based bassist Noah Garabedian's quartet; or quintet, if one includes album producer Samuel Adams' special effects and programming. The playlist consists of 13 songs. According to a press release, they alternate “between eight conceptually stand-alone quartet compositions...and sharply focused solo features written specifically for each musician (including Adams)." There are two such showcases for every ...
Continue ReadingJamile with Miki Yamanaka and her trio plus Steve Wilson: Pursuit of a Pulse
by Katchie Cartwright
Jamile Staevie Ayres, who goes professionally by her first name, was born and raised in Cachoeira do Sul, a midsize city located a couple of hours from Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil, and the heart of its gaúcho culture. Growing up, she gravitated toward música popular brasileira (MPB) and Black popular music of the US. Gal Costa and Aretha Franklin were her two big vocal heroines. She took her undergraduate degree in Brazil ...
Continue ReadingNick Finzer: The Jazz Orchestra Volume 1
by Carl Medsker
Listening chronologically to seven of Nick Finzer's preceding albums is enlightening and entertaining, making several aspects of his musicianship abundantly apparent. His trombone sound is full and expressive, his playing melodious and he can soulfully sing a ballad. Six albums, dating back to 2013, featured his highly talented sextet, a significant accomplishment that enhances the depth and confidence of the recordings. But Finzer's evolving skills in arranging his fresh compositions truly distinguish his work. He choreographs his bandmates amidst lovely ...
Continue ReadingSilvano Monasterios: The River
by Jack Bowers
To enhance his musical excursion along The River, composer, arranger and pianist Silvano Monasterios invited eight talented companions on board to share the ride. He did not make it easy for them. As envisioned by Monasterios, this river is by turns placid or turbulent, sparse or overflowing--but invariably tricky to navigate and tame. The entire work, he writes, is “a suite of what I consider Venezuelan music," and was inspired by the people in his native land ...
Continue ReadingSergio Pamies: Time to Say
by Jack Bowers
Spanish themes and rhythms reign supreme on Time to Say, Granada-born composer, arranger and pianist Sergio Pamies' fourth album, one that is enhanced on its opening and closing numbers, respectively, by the presence of renowned woodwind artists Dave Liebman and Paquito D'Rivera. Not that Pamies' septet needs much help, as everyone is laser-focused and totally in sync. At the same time, Pamies, trumpeter Alex Norris, trombonist Marshall Gilkes and saxophonist Michael Thomas (on alto or soprano) are ...
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Twenty Twenty
From: Songs, Hymns And Ballads Volume...By Jimmy Macbride
If I Loved You
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
View in Perspective
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
View in Perspective (Intro)
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Sonata No. 12 Adagio
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Sonata No. 12 Adagio (Intro)
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
E.T.
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It (Intro)
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Occam's Razor
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Toys
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
In Heaven Everything is Fine
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Impending
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Impending (Intro)
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Circles in a Circle
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Choose
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
I'll Never Be the Same
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Still Life With Skull
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Still Life with Skull (Intro)
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Cobalt Blue
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Zen
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Zen (Intro)
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Space Behind Eugene Boch
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Space Behind Eugene Boch (Intro)
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Moods
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Blue Shade
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Blue Shade (Intro)
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
No Man's Land
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
We're More Than the Sum of Our Influences
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
The Guru
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
... the Alternative
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
You'll Never Know ...
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
Venus
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
The Weatherman
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
(Take the) Fork in the Road
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
A Duke
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
... Patience
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
Patience...
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
Brutus, the Contemporary
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
... Perspective
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
Evolution of ...
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
A Sorcerer (is a myth)
From: Cast Of CharactersBy Jimmy Macbride
No Man's Land
From: Impressions in Blue and RedBy Jimmy Macbride
Antiquity
From: That's a ComputerBy Jimmy Macbride
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Jimmy Macbride
Instrument: Drums
Born: May 10, 1991
