Results for "Drums"

Brian Woodruff

Born: July 12, 1968

Drummer Brian Woodruff has toured the United States, Asia, and Europe and has performed with Bobby Watson, Marian MacPartland, David Lahm, Harvie S, Jiggs Whigham, Jerry Hahn, Gary Versace, Adam Niewood, Stacy Dillard, and on the Today Show. In the past year, Woodruff has been busy performing with The Jacob Varmus Quintet, The New-Trad Octet, and singers Akemi, Aimee Allen, Marieann Meringolo, Nana Yamakawa, and Chuck Cooper. His first CD as a leader, "The Tarrier," is now available, featuring a wide variety of Woodruff's originals performed by his stellar sextet. Recent recordings include All the Things We Still Can Be, with Jacob Varmus, Dream, with singer Aimee Allen, Brownstone, with the New-Trad Octet, and In the Spirit, with Marieann Meringolo

Jared Steer

Born: October 11, 1977

Growing up in the hub of the world, Rochester, NH, I fell in love with the tubs at an early age. My music teacher, Ms. Z, introduced me to percussion in third grade and asked if I would join the school band. Immediately I was in the School bands as well as jazz combos and big band. High school hit, that's when sports became my main priotrity. Played lots still though. In college the guys I was playing with introduced me to some really hip music, Coltrane and Monk, and that's where it all began. I studied Jazz at Plymouth State College with Tim Gilmore (1998-2000) and Eric Hughes (1996-1998), then after college went on to study with Rakalam Bob Moses (2000-2002), Roberto Vizcaino Guillot (of Cubanismo) (Summer 1997 Berklee World Percussion Festival), Jeff Ballard (2007-2008), and for a while with my mentor Bob Gullotti (2002-Present)

Jeff Reilly

Born: June 5, 1970

History I was born in New Jersey and started playing trombone in the 7th grade, that didn’t last very long. I was very drawn to the drums and percussion. I have been a working professional since age 18. I spent a lot of time going into New York City when I was in my late teens. I started Private lessons with Kenwood Dennard, Shawn Pelton, Mino Cinelu and others. Being exposed to so much great music at a young age really shaped my approach to music. I played in New York and New Jersey with a lot different rock, funk, jazz and blues bands. Many of which I’ve toured the country. I moved to Athens, GA in September of 98’ Athens is known for having a pretty diverse and thriving music scene

Eric Harland

Born: November 8, 1976

Eric Harland is the most “In demand drummer” of his generation. He has already been on close to 400 recordings and multiple film scores at his age of 40. Eric has been recognized in the Boston Globe, New York Times, JazzTimes, Modern Drummer, All About Jazz, The New Yorker, DownBeat, L’uomo Vogue and other prominent publications.

It has been his privilege to share the stage with masters such as Betty Carter, Joe Henderson, MyCoy Tyner, Michael Brecker, Terence Blanchard, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, Savion Glover, SFJAZZ Collective and many others, as well as todays up and coming artist like Esperanza Spalding, Jane Monheit, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, Stacie Orrico, Robert Glasper and so on. His current list of performing groups are “JAMES FARM” with Joshua Redman, “PRISM” with Dave Holland and Kevin Eubanks, “SANGAM” with Charles Lloyd and Zakir Hussain, “Charles Lloyd New Quartet”, “OVERTONE” with Dave Holland, Jason Moran, Chris Potter and “VOYAGER” Eric’s own widely recognized group. But Eric doesn’t stop there, he also manages to fit in many collaborations with world renowned artist like Les Claypool “PRIMUS”, “DISPATCH” the band, KRS1, John Mayer, Gigi Hadid, Spike Lee, Steve Miller, Mariah Carey, Randy Jackson from “AMERICAN IDOL” and etc.

Andy O'Neill

I'm originally from St. Louis but have been living in the NYC area for over 10 years. I play mostly jazz and improvised music, but i love all music played by/with the right people. I'm always looking for new people to play with.

Ken Kobayashi

Ken Kobayashi is Jazz-based drummer, living and active in New York. Ken has been playing among the many venues such as Kavehaz, Cleopatra’s Needle, Smalls, Smoke, Garage Restaurant, Tomi Jazz, Jazz at Kitano and Rockwood Music Hall. He has played with Ravi Coltrane, Elliott Levin, Dan Nimmer (Wynton Marsalis Quartet), Tomas Morgan (Bill Frisell Band), Sean Conly and many others. New album “Boundary” is out now on ESP-Disk.It features 10 improvisations by the trio with Megumi Yonezawa(P) and Masa Kamaguchi(B).Ken grew up and lived in Tokyo. Awarded the Bachelor of Art from University. While at the same time, he started pursuing his music career as a drummer

Manfred Hausleitner

Born: May 11, 1957

Manfred Hausleitner has played all over the Europe with many Jazz / Rock / Pop greats. His distinct style, extremely versatile chops and positive attitude puts him in high demand both in the Austrian live music and studio scenes, as well as for touring and teaching. As One of the Austrian's leading Drummer (jazzreview.com) Manfred began studying drums at an early age of 6 with his father. He began learning about jazz when he signed up for the jazz institute at the Konservatiorium and Highschool in Vienna, where he studied with Erich Bachtraegl for 8 years in addition with Tino Contreiras/Mexico D.F

Rodney Green

Some people seek out a career in music, and some just cannot escape it. As an only child growing up in Philadelphia, gospel music and musical instruments surrounded Rodney Green at home and in church, where he spent most of his time. His father was a preacher and organist, and his mother sang in church. Rodney was drawn to the drum kit, and by age three, would climb on the kit play whenever possible. By his early teens, Green was playing drums in church, but outside he was being exposed to other kinds of music like jazz. His older cousin, also a musician, introduced Rodney to jazz, funk, and soul music, and (along with his high school band teacher) started him listening records like, “A Love Supreme,” “Transition,” and “Four More”

Charles David Stuart

Jazz/Fusion/Blues/Multi-Style drummer Charles David Stuart has been playing professionally and teaching for over 25 years. He was born in Detroit and began playing drums and percussion in the early 1970's. He was performing by the mid to late 1970's and started teaching privately in the early 1980's. Adept in a multitude of styles and genres, his musical interests have always been multi-faceted. Charles has performed with many internationally known artists and shows. As a youth, he was a mega award winning drummer-percussionist in orchestral and jazz settings. 1985 -1986 he attended WMU on a jazz scholarship and moved to NYC to perform and study privately between 1986 and 1987

Musa Selepe

Born: April 11, 1975

Musa grew up in Swaziland where he attended primary and High school. He did A'levels at Waterford College and then enrolled at the University of Swaziland to do Bsc, majoring in Maths and Physics. In between his studies he would experiment with drums from time to time. He then moved from Swaziland and came back home in South Africa in 1997. He has been in the art business for the past 15 years. Started off as a drummer in church, and then moved to a school band. He has been rythymic since from childhood, taken from his dad who was a bassist and pianist. He then started dancing and acting. He travelled the USA, EUROPE and local gigs in South Africa.He was also a correspondent Journalist whilst at school with the SWAZI TV