Results for "Drums"

John Armato

Born: May 19, 1964

A Kansas City native, New York City ex-pat, and now Sacramento resident, John Armato appears on releases by Tom Giovagnoli, Peter Petty, Tony Underwood, Claudette Stone, and Lisa Bloecher. "The Drummer Loves Ballads" is his first release as leader.

Armato came up as a sideman in Kansas City in the 80s and 90s working with local society bands and jazz leaders as well as backing touring acts and “ghost bands” such as The Ink Spots, The Platters, and The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. He was also a member of the Kansas City Chief's "Pack Band." Relocating to New York and then Sacramento brought Armato new opportunities to work with jazz artists such as tenor saxophonist Bob Kindred, vocalist Anne Phillips, cornet legend Warren Vache; and smooth jazz headliners such as Paul Brown, Darren Rahn, Steve Oliver, and Spencer Day. In recent years he has traveled Northern California with the Dean-O-Holics Rat Pack tribute show.

Gasper Bertoncelj

Born: August 17, 1978

Born in 1978 in Kranj. He started his music career by learning trumpet at the Kranj music school. Towards the end of the primary school he got his first drums. He immediately started playing in the local jazz band. Later he joined the local brass band, and after graduating from the secondary school of economics he decided to go to the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz, Austria. He studied with acknowledged musicians like Doug Hammond, Harry Sokal and Alan Praskin. After he graduated, he left for postgraduate studies in New York. He decided to study at the acknowledged university The City College Of The City University Of New York

Eliot Zigmund

Born: April 14, 1945

Veteran jazz drummer Eliot Zigmund has enjoyed a wide and varied career in jazz spanning forty years of playing. Past and present associations with artists include {{Bill Evans = 6592}}, {{Michel Petrucciani = 10260}}, {{Vince Guaraldi = 7278}}, {{Jim Hall = 7345}}, {{Stan Getz = 7013}}, {{Benny Golson = 7090}}, {{Richie Beirach = 3747}}, David Berkman, Gene Bertrocini, Eddie Gomez, Bobby Watson, Eddie Henderson, Enrico Pieranunzi, Dado Maroni, Jed Levy, Bobby Porcelli, Michael Kanan, Mauro Negri, Paolo Birro, Lee Konitz, Don Friedman, Fred Hersch, Art Lande, Helen Merrill, Ted Rosenthal, Pete Malinverni, Lorenzo Conte, Cameron Brown, Warren Vache and many others. Born 1945 in the Bronx, Eliot grew up in the fertile New York jazz scene of the 50’s and 60’s and began playing professionally at the age of 15 with an older brother who was an aspiring jazz guitarist

Martin István

Born: August 7, 1981

I was studing in SR 8 years the drum set.I was playing a lot of styles with many musicians from the Slovakia, Norway, Czech Republic a.t.c. from Big Band, jazz-latin quartet to jazz trio.I was in the Ship from the flotile of AIDA in Casino with a jazztrio - Music Island Trio.Now I teaching in a Primary music school in Nitra and present I play with jazz quartet - Continental (doublebasse, drumms, tenorsax, piano).I will by from September this Year study drumms in a Private music School and my Teacher will by Juraj Gergely.

Richard Dray

Got the jazz bug at an early age, thrilling to the sounds of Bird, Diz and Monk. He spent his teenage years in the clubs of Soho listening to the great names of British Jazz including Tubby Hayes, Joe Harriott, Ronnie Scott and John Stevens. Friendship with Alexis Korner lead to an interest in the Blues and when, many years later, he took up the drums he worked around the pubs of North London in various Blues bands. There followed a spell with Essex band Snagge working the London clubs including Kashmir’s and Taylors, before joining up with jazz singer Gill Ward. Since then he has worked with many local musicians including Martin Hathaway, Geoff Collins, Dan Banks, Ron Spack and groups Alto Egos and Real Time, He has worked most of the major jazz venues in Essex as well as visits to the Cambridge Jazz club, the Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, No.10 in Mayfair and The Pizza on the Park Knightsbridge

Carl Manna

Born: July 13, 1969

Capeable of drumming many styles. UNF jazz school graduate, 1997 alumni. High School band director for eight years, now teaching private lessons and performing. Freelance performer and studio drummer. Experience with sound engineering for main or monitor systems in a variety of arenas.

Dannee Fullerton

Born: January 12, 1944

Dannee Fullerton Born 1944 in Los Angeles, CA. In 1948 moved to Saudi Arabia with his mother to join his father who worked for the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco)located in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. At the young age of 11 years, Dannee found himself enrolled at the Institute Montana Zugerberg, an all boys international school in Switzerland. It was here that drums became a strong influence. His very first drum set was a pair of brushes and a set of bongo drums. His favorite musical "stars" at the time were Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Along with singing, Dannee played the guitar and the drums. At the age of 14, he started a band at the Institute and gave concerts 3-4 times a year

Robert Castelli

Born: April 7

Born into a family of drummers (a grandfather, two uncles & his father), Robert learned the basics from his father, who, along with his Uncle, were lifetime members of the NYC Musicians Union, AFM Local 802.

By high school, having started private lessons as well as classes in music theory, he was playing professionally all over the NY/Tri-State area. He went on to study Theory & Composition, Piano, Guitar, Orchestra Percussion & Drums at the Westchester Conservatory of Music, State University of NY at New Paltz, and Drummers Collective NYC. Over the years he has studied with some of the most well known drummers in New York & the world including, Ed Soph, Gary Chester, Kim Plainfield, Tony “Thunder” Smith, Robbie Gonzalez, Robbie Ameen, Horacio el Negro Hernandez, and Joe Ascione

Marvin Bugalu Smith

Born: December 29, 1948

Marvin "Bugalu" Smith is a master drummer and the best way to understand him, is to listen to his own words...

I started playing drums at age 2 and in that time I studied with all of the great master drummers: Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Roy Hayes, Art Taylor, and my brother Earl "Buster" Smith. My out look on music is without end. Right now what I'm doing is teaching young people, to understand how the master drummers got there power on the drums. Understanding the basic foundation of the drums. Teaching them that it was used for communication, a way to talk to people

Maria Wanted

Born: January 6, 1986

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