Results for "Drums"

Dylan Jack

Born: September 20, 1985

Dylan Jack is a percussionist and composer participating in multiple genres within the Boston music scene. As a performer, Jack divides his attention between playing as a sideman with some of the city’s top improvisors including Charlie Kohlhase, Jeb Bishop, Bill Lowe, Eric Hofbauer, etc and leading his main creative outlet, the Dylan Jack Quartet. 

In 2016 Jack started the Dylan Jack Quartet, an ensemble focusing on original music. Combining intricately composed segments that utilize odd meters and phrasing with free improvisations, the music is described as “… bristling with rhythmic intelligence and rich in dynamic contrast and ebb and flow. (David Adler)” In September of 2017, they released their first album, Diagrams, which received favorable reviews from the jazz press. In June of 2020, they released their second record The Tale of the Twelve-Foot Man in on the Creative Nation Music label. Jack also co-leads the duo Hofbauer-Jack with premier Boston guitarist, Eric Hofbauer. 

Jason McKenzie

Juan Carlos Polo

Born: November 29

Drummer, composer and educator born in Lima – Peru, on November 29th – 1982. Juan Carlos started playing drums at the age of 14 and began performing professionally the last year of high school. He holds a Bachelor degree in Percussion from The National Conservatory of Music in Peru where he is also a professor in the outreach music program. He has played and recorded with many projects and bands of different styles and genres such as the Peruvian bands “La Mente” and “Inity Band”, which has been the backing band for the well-known reggae starts: Clinton Fearon (Gladiators), Calton Coffie (Inner Circle), Junior Reid (Black Uhuru), Anthony B, Pato Banton and Mykel Rose

David DeLucia

Born: July 18, 1949

Gil Jenkins

Born: June 13, 2007

Drummer for 50 years, Singer, Songwrighter, percussionist, Producer. Jazz was my main music I was taught growing up. I am from a family of musicians that go back to 1869. Example, Freddie Jenkins trumpet player Duke Ellington, and my Uncle Nat Kennedy with countless other professionals, James Brown, Brecker Brothers , James Blood Ulmer,

Phil Parisot

Alfonso Vitale

Jared Johnson

Born: June

Jared Johnson is active as a professional freelance drummer/composer performing and recording extensively with regionally and nationally known artists. Jared has been a featured performer at Duet Jazz and the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. He appears regularly with the Mike Cameron Collective, Swunky Face Big Band, and The Tulsa Playboys. With his own group, Next of Kin, Jared performs his original work, "The Grapes of Wrath Project". Jared is a composer/arranger, clinician and adjudicator for various jazz camps, workshops and competitions. An elementary music specialist, Jared leads the World Music Drumming program at New Tech at Cherokee Elementary School in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Calixto Olviedo

Lemuel Schenck

Born: September

THe selections above do not include specific information. I am currently involved in modern music improvisation and I am playing the Drums in this genre at present. I am also very experienced and to spot work in straight ahead Jazz, funk, New Orleans Jazz and R&B and practically any genre that has a gig opening and have over the years worked in most all genres both on Drums and Percussion where my own personal favorite Vibraphone is what I call my true instrument. I teach Drums, Percussion, Music Theory (traditional and conceptual) Vibraphone as well as composition, songwriting (more musical and you are responsible for text but I help put them together with music) as well as Improvisation both Functional and conceptual