Results for "Drums"

Paul Gavin

Born: 1850

Paul Gavin is a Drummer, Teacher, Composer & Arranger in Tampa, FL. Since graduating from the University of South Florida in 2015 Paul has made his living exclusively as a freelance musician. By playing all kinds of music all around the state of Florida, teaching privately and in schools, and writing for school programs and his own original music he maintains an active schedule. Paul has played regularly with great musicians in the Tampa bay area including trumpet player James Suggs, singer Gloria West, and bassist Michael Ross. He also plays regularly in the Fort Myers area with trumpet player Dan Miller, guitarist Dan Heck, bassist Brandon Robertson, and the Stardust Memories Big Band. After almost 4 years of supporting others’ musical projects Paul is now focusing on building his own

Jeremy Dutton

Drummer. Writer. All around artist striving to affect change on a sonic and social level using the gifts of humor, rhythmic ingenuity, and personal insight.

Chris Parker

Born in Chicago, Chris was playing drums at age three and began performing his first professional gigs at eleven. At nineteen, Parker began recording and touring with blues great Paul Butterfield and broke into the New York studio scene in 1970, doing records, movie scores and filling the drum chair at Saturday Night Live. Toph, as friends know him, recorded platinum, gold and Grammy winning albums and CDs with many artists, including the original Brecker Brothers, Bob Dylan, Cher, Donald Fagen, Ashford and Simpson, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Freddie Hubbard, James Brown, Joe Cocker, Salt 'n' Pepa, Stuff, Miles Davis, Patti LaBelle and Michael Bolton

Rick Nair

Born: April 20, 1970

Rick Nair is a versatile drummer, bandleader and writer based in Minneapolis. A native of Manhattan, Rick has played with hundreds of artists, including several internationally recognized musicians. Performance credits include cross-genre innovator Moby, rapper Speech (of Arrested Development), Jamaican rock and pop legend Phil Chen, and the great bassist Ron Carter. Rick's current projects include jazz-funk quintet President Flow, classic reggae outfit The Skruffians, dub-jazz trio Prince Leia, the gypsy-style Carluster Crumplebee Orchestra, Kairos Alive, the Sarah Streitz band, the Chris Hagedorn Quartet, Emoji Virtuosi, the John Seymour Trio, and a number of other groups

Clark Seibold

Joseph Branciforte

Born: June 11

Joseph Branciforte is a multi-instrumentalist, producer/engineer, and composer. As engineer/producer, he has worked on over 100 releases for some of the most well-respected names in the NYC creative jazz scene including Ben Monder, Vijay Iyer, Tim Berne, Mark Dresser, Nels Cline, Tyshawn Sorey, Dan Weiss, Tom Rainey, Matt Mitchell, Jen Shyu, and many others. His work can be heard on ECM Records, Sunnyside Records, Pi Recordings, Cryptogramophone, Fresh Sound, and Clean Feed. He co-leads, composes for, and play drums in THE CELLAR AND POINT, a "garage-chamber" septet formed in 2010

Bob Stone

Bob Stone, the Founder and Musical Director of The Naples Jazz Orchestra, brings over forty (40) years of musical experience to the organization. This includes professional performance, ensemble development, musical directing/conducting, and teaching/mentoring students and professional musicians. Mr. Stone has had performance engagements with over 80 headliners, including some of the greatest names and organizations in American jazz and popular music such as Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Lionel Hampton, Harry James, The Four Freshmen, and many, many more. He formed, managed, directed, promoted and played in one of the most famous big bands of its era, The Bob Stone Big Band, in Chicago, IL 1976-1989. Mr

Benjamin Riley

A graduate of York University (Honours BFA), Ben Riley has been actively engaged in the Canadian music scene for over fifteen years. He has played alongside many luminaries such as Bruce Cockburn, Holly Cole, Michael Burgess, Molly Johnson, Joe Sealy, Doug Riley, Jake Langley, NOJO, Marc Jordan, Amy Sky, Moe Koffman, Domenic Troiano, Joshua Nelson (gospel singer/ Oprah Winfrey guest), Matt Dusk, Wynton Marsalis and Gary Burton among others. Ben has toured extensively throughout Canada, Europe, the U.S., China and Japan with many highly acclaimed acts including Michael Kaeshammer, Bruce Cockburn, Bowfire, Sophie Milman and Matt Dusk

Martin Forsstedt

Born: October 3, 1986

Jeff Pera