Results for "Drums"

Michel Seba

Born: December 29, 1973

  Michel Seba was born in 1973 nearby Arlon and grew up there amidst a family of passionate musicians. The sounds of his childhood are the bagpipe and the hurdy-gurdy. He starts his education with many traineeships at the Academie Internationale d’Eté thanks to Chris Joris and Didier Labarre. After he finishes secondary school, the next logical step for him is to leave the south of Luxemburg and to go the Royal Conservatory in Brussels to study under the direction of Frank Michiels and Diederik Wissels.

His ability to mix different styles and his growing talent make him famous in no time and he is asked to join the greatest: Eric Legnini, Eddy Louiss, Toots Thielemans or even Eric Truffaz, Paco Sery and many others. He feels comfortable in every register, whether it is jazz, folk or world music. He proves that regularly when participating at festivals such as the Jazz Festival in Montréal, the Jazz Marathon in Brussels or the very famous Montreux Jazz Festival.  Having gained his place in the Belgian music scene, he is often asked to give classes and workshops in Belgium at the Aktd of Libramont and abroad, more particularly in Burkina Faso and Vietnam.

Jamie Lebish

Born: May 19, 1959

Schooled at GIT and Berklee college of Music. I am also a guitar player/songwriter/producer.

Mario Layne Fabrizio

website: www.mario.international

MARIO LAYNE FABRIZIO is a visual artist, composer, drummer, percussionist, filmmaker and writer. has performed with notable musicians such as Cecil Mcbee, Claudio Roditi, Nilson Matta, Santi DeBriano, Roni Ben-Hur, Joe Morris, Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko, Jason Palmer and Volker Goetze. He premiered Arturo O'Farrill’s piece Little Tiny Walls, theater piece The Black Clown at the American Repertory Theatre and played for Jason Moran’s STAGED exhibition with Cecil McBee and also performed chamber works by Jacob Druckman, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris to name a few. Mario has toured around the world and has been presented with various groups at the Salzburg Jazz Festival (Austria), Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC & Shanghai, China), Panama Jazz Festival, Birdland (NYC), The Whitney Museum (NYC), Kunming’s International Drum Festival (China) and The Kennedy Center (DC). London Jazz News describes him accurately as "ferocious but subtle," and Steve Smith of On The Record says that he “plays with assurance, charisma and infectious enthusiasm.” You can find interviews about him in SEATTLEREFINED as the artist of the week and his poetry is published in Ben Mazer’s Art and Letters and was featured in Boston’s Intercollegiate Poetry Festival. Compositions of his have been acknowledged by the NYTIMES, ALLMUSIC, FRANCEMUSIQUE and commissioned by National Sawdust, is a finalist fellow for EBCP. He has won two YoungArts awards, and grants to support my works, a National Sawdust composition commission, and has been supported by MassMOCA, Assets for Artists, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Mass Cultural Council, and the Foundation for Contemporary art.

Carson Grimes

Jörg Fischer

Born: 1971

I was born 1971, grew up in Einbeck (Germany), later studied jazz drumming with Janusz Stefanski in Mainz, and got a diploma in teaching drums (which I do passionately). I eventually relocated to Wiesbaden, where I'm an active member in the Kooperative New Jazz (ARTist). With my esthetics deeply rooted in 60s/70s/80s euro-freejazz & improv, I play in several freejazz-focussed ensembles, but also enjoy playing more open, fragile and nuanced improvised music on my prepared percussion kit. A few newer projects I'm involved in stylistically cross the line also into "experimental" noisy rock-territory. The avant-punk/no wave/noiserock stuff I discovered in recent years (as a fan) really added some fresh perspective for me.

Fosforo Sequera

Born: October 28, 1967

Fósforo Sequera's versatility as a percussionist has allowed him to assimilate musical genres such as jazz, pop, rock, blues and world music in an original, colorful and passionate way. He was born in Valencia and started playing music during his adolescence, at that time he faced the drums with the intuition and anxiety of exploration of any good beginner, his ear was his best teacher. His curiosity expanded to other percussion instruments, being the conga, timbal, bongo, djembe and cajon the instruments that would complete his path and forge an original and sensitive style, highly influenced by musicians such as Nene Quintero, Jerry Gonzalez, Marlon Simon, Nana Vasconcelos and Steve Berrios, among others. His musical development led him to make music with personalities of the musical world such as Gerardo Rosales, Marlon Simon, Leonardo Lozano, Franco Nasi, Carmelo Medina, Banda Sinfónica 24 de Junio, Jorge Palomo, Luis Gallo, Malicia Rock Band, Tony Velázquez, UC Jazz, Maria Elena Millán, Juan Cristóbal Moreno, Yudith Rodríguez, Ocho Son Suficiente, Omar Lopez, CJ3, Borburata Jazz, Big Montal Band, Kactus, Trabala'o, Soto Blues Band, Omar Herrera, Marianne Mali, Valencia en Ensamble, Henry Arias Inca, Wolfgang Vom Hofe, Raúl Cragg, Orquesta de Cámara de la Universidad de Carabobo, Sonata Disonante, among others.

Simone Brilli

Tom Skinner

London based drummer, composer and producer Tom Skinner has been a vital and central figure in the burgeoning underground music scene in London throughout the last 20 years.

Tom is presently a member of The Smile with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. Their debut album “A light for attracting attention” was released to critical acclaim in June 2022 and they are currently touring Europe with Worldwide dates to follow.

In 2012, Tom released his debut self-titled solo record under the alias Hello Skinny to critical acclaim, MOJO Magazine describing it as “…existing in that fertile zone where jazz, dub, techno and avant-pop deliquesce into an exhilarating free-for-all.” The second Hello Skinny album Watermelon Sun, released on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label in 2017, featured a collaboration with acclaimed veteran New York composer and trombonist Peter Zummo.

Tom is also an original member of award winning band Sons Of Kemet alongside band-leader and frequent collaborator Shabaka Hutchings

Istanbul Sessions At JAZZMI 2022

by Roberto Cifarelli
October 25, 2022

Mikkel Villingshoj

Born: July 9, 1978

TAKING MATTERS INTO OWN (JAZZ)HANDS

The consummate sideman goes solo.

Having worked for the last +20 years as a sideman for numerous Danish artists, drummer Mikkel Villingshøj is now taking matters into own hands by releasing his first album as composer, bandleader, drummer and producer entitled "At This Juncture". 

Lets go back in time to spring 2020. Suddenly the world we knew was changed drastically. Everybody knows what happened the following years, but especially for musicians and artists it felt like being struck by lightning. For Mikkel the consequences were huge. The loss of gigs, the shattering of a career built over 20+ years, and a future that looked rather murky, but it was also the spark that relit a musical flame that lives inside Mikkel.