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Gil Graham

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About Me

Performances - Jazz and Show Music

*1970 - Present ~ Active member of the music scene in Boston, including club work, dance music, concerts, shows and recording. House drummer at two resorts in the Catskill Mountains, playing dance music and backing singers and comedians. Employed by three cruise ships: the Norway and the Starward for Norwegian Caribbean Line, and the Carnivale for Carnival Cruise Lines, backing such artists as Clark Terry, Zoot Sims and Wild Bill Davidson. * 1994 ~ King Richard's Faire, Carver, MA. Peter Moore, Entertainment Director. Performance series accompanying The Commonwealth Brass. * Foxborough's Actor's Collaborative, Jacquelin Goudy, Music Director: City of Angels, Funny Girl, Bye Bye Birdie, Damn Yankees, Carousel, and How to Succeed in Business * Company Theater, Michael Joseph, Music Director: Oklahoma, It's a Wonderful Life. * Arlington Friends of Drama: City of Angels * Newton's Turtle Lane, Merrilee Maferra, Music Director: South Pacific. * Reading's Colonial Chorus, Matt Wulfe, Music Director: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Performances - Classical:

* Snare drummer with Brockton Symphony. Timpanist with Melrose and Waltham symphonies. Miscellaneous percussion with Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Newton and Arlington Symphonies.

Performances - Jazz and Commercial Music:

* Drummer and Business Manager for the New England Jazz Quartet. Duties included making initial contacts for concerts and club dates and promotion of the group via tapes, literature, photographs, and phone calls. Business manager and leader of the Gil Graham Jazz Quartet. PBS Channel 44 performance. Concerts include Firt Night Celebrations and Summerthing in Boston, the Berklee Performance Center, Harvard and MIT. Tapes aired on WGBH, WBUR and WERS radio. Leader of Gil Graham Enterprises, a group of versatile musicians specializing in playing dances, shows and commercial music. Endorser for Sabian Cymbals. Member of Sabian International Artists Program.

PUBLICATIONS

* Beginning Drum Chart Reading. Gil Graham, publisher. 1983. Distributed by Jamie Aebersold (Indiana), Berklee Campus Shop (Boston) and Steve Weiss Music (Philadelphia). Reviewed in: Modern Drummer (June, 1986), Percussioner International (September, 1986). * “Rhythmic Displacement,” Modern Drummer, August, 1985. * “Chart Reading: Part 1,” Modern Drummer, November, 1985 * “Chart Reading: Part 3,” Modern Drummer, March, 1986 * “Chart Reading: Part 4,” Modern Drummer, June, 1986 * “Setting Up Band Figures,” Modern Drummer, December 1989 * “Product Review: Sonor Soprano and Piccolo Snare Drums,” Modern Drummer, December, 1990 * “Product Review: Ludwig Piccolo Snare Drums,” Modern Drummer, August, 1990

EDUCATION

* Instruction in Harmony, Ear Training, and Jazz History at Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, 1986 - 1992 * Trained with Alan Dawson (internationally renowned jazz drummer), Fred Buda (percussionist with the Boston Ballet, Boston Pops, and Herb Pomeroy's Big Band), Sonny Igoe and Chuck Flores (both studio musicians and former Woody Herman drummers). Studies included chart reading, classical snare drum technique, polyrhythms, and Latin rhythms. * Majored in music at University of Missouri at Kansas City, MO, 1969 - 1970 * Associate in Arts degree, major in music, Fort Scott Community Junior College, Fort Scott, KA, 1968 - 1969 * Majored in music at Wichita State University, Wichita, KA, 1967 - 1968 ~

For free literature, call (781) 721 0490 or email Gil at [email protected] Gil Graham's DPS is currently associated with the Arlington Center for the Arts, located at 41 Foster St., Arlington, MA