Results for "Drums"

Quentin E. Baxter

Quentin E. Baxter, a native of Charleston, SC, comes from a family of drummers with his mother leading the troupe. “I’m unable to recall a moment in my youth void of having drums either at home or church.” Baxter’s unique skillsets have garnered a GRAMMY Award as producer/performer, in total 4 GRAMMY Nominations as producer/performer, the 2017 South Carolina Governor’s Award for the Arts, a City of Charleston Proclamation “Quentin E. Baxter Day” – April 25, 2017, the 2017 College of Charleston Alumnus of the Year Award, the 2017 Eddie Ganaway Distinquished Alumni Award, and a 2017 Inductee to the Savannah Coastal Jazz Hall of Fame. Currently touring world-wide with GRAMMY Award winning Gullah sensation RANKY TANKY and multi-Grammy-nominated vocalist/composer René Marie, Baxter regularly performs many of the most prestigious venues and festivals, i.e., The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Jazz at Lincoln Center (New York), SFJazz (San Francisco, CA), Joy of Jazz Festival (South Africa), Toulouse Jazz Festival (France), Umbria Jazz Festival and Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi (Italy), Savannah Jazz Festival, Savannah Music Festival, and, of course, Spoleto Festival USA (Charleston). Baxter’s passion for world-wide performances is paralleled by his dedication to educate, promote, produce, and present world-class artists in his home town and neighboring regional communities

Nadav Snir-Zelniker

Born in Israel in 1974, Nadav started playing drums at the age of 16. Soon he became involved with the local Israeli music scene, playing and recording with different Rock & Jazz artists. Throughout these years Nadav has absorbed elements and flavors of the local Mediterranean-music traditions. In 1999, after receiving several honorary scholarships, Nadav was able to move to the US and got his BFA degree in music-performance from the Conservatory of Music at SUNY-Purchase College. Soon after his arrival in New York, Nadav became highly involved with the local music scene. His versatility enabled him to perform & record with artists from different genres

Tom Rainey

Born: 1957

Tom Rainey (born 1957, Santa Barbara, California) is an American drummer. After attending Berklee College of Music he moved to New York in 1979. He has played with American jazz saxophonist and composer Tim Berne, and also with Fred Hersch, Tony Malaby, Tom Varner, Drew Gress, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, and Simon Nabatov. A prolific session musician, he has appeared on close to eighty recordings over a career spanning over 25 years. He released his own first album Pool School (Clean Feed) in 2010.

Todd Strait

Todd was raised in Topeka, KS, and became involved in music in elementary school playing trumpet and drums. Eventually braces pushed the trumpet out of the picture and it's been drums ever since. Todd began gigging locally while still in 7th grade, mainly with his father's group. During his last year of high school he became involved in the 1979 "Louie Bellson/Slingerland National Drum Contest" where he eventually finished in second place at the Las Vegas finals. The scholarships gained from this experience enabled Todd to pursue his dream of moving to the NYC area and studing with Ed Soph in 1980. Upon relocating to the east coast Todd free-lanced in and around NYC and the Tri-State area, then joined Marian McPartland's trio in 1982 playing in New York City clubs and traveling occasionally with her across the country

Matt Varela

I play drums

Pippin Barnett

Born: September 5, 1953

 Born in White Plains, N.Y. and growing up in New Jersey and Japan. He currently resides in Richmond, Va.. He began his musical endeavors with trumpet at age 9 and then on to drums at 12.   He has been recorded on 40 or so LP's or CD's with bands he has either co- founded or been a sideman since 1979. Some of those bands include Idio- Savant, Curlew, Orthotonics, Nimal, Happy Lucky, Ululating Mummies, Tom Cora's Roof, Boom, Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra and No Safety. He has been written about in many publications including Musician, Modern Drummer, Musiche Mag., Option, N.Y. Downtown Mag., Cadence, New York Times and Downbeat.   He has played and toured with Conrad Baur, Chris Cochrane, Tom Cora, Fred Frith, Shelly Hirsch, Tim Hodgekinson, Catherine Jeauniux, Zeena Parkins, Hans Reichel, Jean-Maurice Rossel, Hahn Rowe, Martin Schutz, David Wienstien, Shirley Anne Hoffman, Bratko Bibic, Keith Rowe and others.   Some past events where he has performed are the Kool Jazz Festival 86’- NYC, New Music America 89'-NYC,  JVC Jazz Festival-NYC, Mimi Festival- France, Sarzana Music Festival-Italy, Marantz Jazz Festival-Switz.,  Lion Coffee Music Series-Honolulu, Festival for Performance and Experimental Music- Copenhagen, Goethe Institute-NYC,  Zurich Jazz Festival-Switz., Festival Music Actulle-Canada,  Knitting Factory Jazz Festival-Holland and NYC,  Children's Festival-Zurich-Switz.,  Nickelsdorf Jazz Festival-Austria, Tampere Jazz Festival-Finland,  The Kitchen-NYC,  The Walker Arts Museum- Minneapolis, The Center for Contemporary Arts-Santa Fe  and numerous others.

Rodrigo Bonelli

Rodrigo Bonelli started drumming at the early age of 11, his deep interest in drumming and composition eventually took him to the Rio de Janeiro University and then Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2001. Rodrigo has since then forged a versatile and successful career as a professional drummer, percussionist and composer. He has performed internationally and locally with Grammy award nominee Heather Schmid, Nick Goumas, Juie Lavender, Scottish saxophonist Conrad wisznievski as well as many others in the Boston and New York areas. Rodrigo's full promise and potential is only beginning to be realized making him a valuable professional musician on the worlds scene today. Mr

Yonatan Avi Oleiski

Yonatan Avi Oleiski is an acclaimed jazz drummer of sustained reputation in Israel. He is one of the very few Israeli jazz drummers who have risen to the top of his field, and he is highly sought after to perform with the Israel's top singers and jazz ensembles. He has also performed with the famous U.S. jazz saxophonist, Arnie Lawrence (among others, of Blood Sweat & Tears fame). Mr. Oleiski performs regularly with ensembles for the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), in both radio and television programs, and has currently been commissioned to work on a prestigious national Israeli project performing music settings for the poetry of The Israel Prize winner, Goethe winner and Nobel Prize candidate, Amos Oz

Vince Cherico

Roberto Quintero