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Devin Drobka

Devin Drobka, drummer, composer and educator has been playing drums for the past 20 years. Devin is currently one of the most in-demand Performers and Educators in the Midwest.

Devin decided to further his education and applied to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Devin received his BMA in Jazz Drumming Performance from Berklee College of Music in 09' where he had the chance to study with Terri Lynn Carrington, Bob Tamigni, Skip Hadden, Jamey Haddad, Kenwood Dennard, Jon Hazilla, Ralph Peterson Jr, Ian Froman, and the master drummer Bob Moses. While at Berklee Devin performed with legends of the Jazz world such as Joe Lovano, Jerry Bergonzi, Greg Osby, Cecil McBee, Dave Santoro, Ed Tomassi, and Phil Grenadier.

While in Devin's last year at Berklee he was asked to play drums in the world famous Jerry Bergonzi Quartet which featured Phil Grenadier on Trumpet, Bruce Barth on Piano and Dave Santoro on Bass.

Devin moved to New York in 2010 to further his musical knowledge

Album

A Small Patch of Earth

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Slide; Dust; Confluence; A Small Patch of Earth; With a Chance of Rain; Like a Company of Ghosts; Gray; Dry County; Galaxies.

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Switch

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Switch; Pivot; Things Aren't What They Seem; Acquaintance; Cherry; Vanguard; Shadows; The Midnight Sky; Farewell.

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Article: Album Review

Kenny Reichert: Switch

Read "Switch" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Chicago guitarist Kenny Reichert works extremely hard to make his sound come across as casual on Switch. If you do not count the numerous discs with his partner Sara d'Ippolito Reichert, this is his third release as a leader. It follows Deep Breath (Shifting Paradigm Records, 2023) and returning from that previous outing are vocalist Alyssa ...

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Ten Stories

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Journeyer; Same River, Once; Hutcherspired; Nice Day; Purpley; Non-Non; Tone Poem; Vega; Whistle in the Wind; Non-Non Outro.

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Quartet

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Prelude; Retrograde; Contemplation; Two Sides; Odyssey; Split Levels; September’s Lullaby; The Game; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Rollins.

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Deep Breath

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Mirage; Communion With Nature; Spears; Bshful; Deep Breath; How's It Going? I've Been Thinking A Lot About You; Skip; Nanjing; Balance; Reprise.

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Article: Album Review

Precarious Towers: Ten Stories

Read "Ten Stories" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Precarious Towers is a Midwestern-based quintet whose second recording, Ten Stories, is as bare-bones an album as one could imagine: a plain CD (without name or artwork) resting in a pale-blue jacket (no tray or protective sleeve) that includes a list of songs, composers and personnel plus recording details. That's it. From a reviewer's point of ...

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Article: Album Review

Arman Sangalang: Quartet

Read "Quartet" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Chicago-based tenor saxophonist Arman Sangalang, still in his mid-20s, makes his recording debut with Quartet, wherein his talented four-member ensemble uses delicate textures and shadings in lieu of heated fire and brimstone to amplify its even-tempered musical purpose. That was clearly Sangalang's idea, as he wrote all save one of the album's ten ...

Album

Precarious Towers

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Precarious Towers; McCoy; December; Angel Eyes; Never Pet A Burning Dog; Pandemica I: Quiet Out There; Pandemica II: Unreliable Narrator; Pandemica III: Defeat and Imprison The Conman Strongman; Try To Remember; Saturday Night Meat Raffle.


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