Results for "Drums"

Clarence Smith

Born: December 16, 1970

Clarence Smith is coordinator of music at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, where he teaches jazz history, music appreciation, and percussion. He also teaches on the college's Longview and Blue River campuses, and directs jazz ensembles at both Penn Valley and Blue River. In addition, he is the associate director of Kansas City Youth Jazz, a non-profit organization offering jazz education and performance to students in grades six through twelve. From 1993-2003, Smith was director of the jazz program at the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts High School in the Kansas City, Mo

Nikolai M. Henríquez

Born: October 10, 1991

Kevin Dorrian

One of the hardest working swinging drummers, Kevin blends deep rhythmic vitality with an innate sense of super-accurate feel and timing. He is known for great subtlety in his accompaniment, delivering subtle nuances within the scope of his drumming and is both creative and adaptive in his approach to whichever musical style is called for. He is primarily a jazz drummer – equally at home in the context of an instrumental group, or as a part of a backing trio for an accomplished singer.

Playing drums has been a burning passion of mine since I was a young boy. I can still recall the first time I sat behind a drum kit. I was about four years old and fortunate to be the son of one of Scotland’s top jazz pianists. His drummer had a glittering Blue Slingerland drum kit – and from the moment I sat on the stool – I was hooked! Fast forward ten years and I began drum lessons having already spent time learning piano, but my path was to combine learning Orchestral percussion with playing with an assortment of school rock, blues and jazz groups. Unquestionably, I earned my spurs, by sitting in, listening to other drummers, buying records which featured great drummers and so on. My influences back then are similar to the ones I have now – drummers with a ‘sixth sense’ for the purity of their playing – and in particular, a ‘roll call’ of great jazz drummers from the 40′s and 50′s- too many to mention, but who all play with such verve and swing. I am fortunate enough to be called upon very regularly as a small group drummer – backing vocalists, playing in instrumental groups, etc and you’ll find me currently filling the drum stool with JazzMain and Bossa Trio

Paul Stuart Smith

Born: October 1, 1949

Current projects - Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK, Give a Little Love Orchestra, 5,6.7 Pieces of Silver (playing the music of Horrace Silver. Fixer of the Huddersfield Head of Steam Jazz Wednesday and co fixer of Kennedy's Jazz Bar, York. Extensive teaching (home studio).

Enrico Morello

Born: 1988

Born in Rome (Italy) in 1988, Enrico Morello began to play drums at an early age, when he was 9 years old. He started studying and playing jazz music at “Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio” (Rome) at the age of 13 and he continued his studies attending the summer workshops at “Siena Jazz” (Siena, Italy) in 2006 and 2008. It was there that he was selected for the additional masterclasses with Enrico Rava and Gianluigi Trovesi. Over the following two years, he attended a special course for professional musicians in Siena, entitled In.Ja.M – International Jazz Master Program “Master Of Higher Education In Jazz Improvisation Tecniques” , obtaining the highest awards and a full scholarship

Kuno Wagner

Born: October 23

Mário Costa

Yorgos Dimitriadis

Yorgos Dimitriadis, born 1964 in Thessaloniki Greece, is an experimental musician, composer performer based in Berlin. Using percussion, microphones, field recordings and minimal electronics his music focuses on real time sonic landscapes, with an emphasis on timbre, sound color and long durations.

Since 2006 he lives in Berlin and appears at festivals and concert series worldwide.
He has performed/recorded as a soloist and in collaboration with an array of renowned international artists like Audrey Chen, Paul Dunmall, Tristan Honsinger, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Matthias Bauer, Frank Gratkowski, Lori Freedman, Michel Doneda, Amir ElSaffar, Tobias Delius, Marc Turner, Hilary Jeffery, Robin Hayward, Oguz Büyükberber, Meinrad Kneer, Silke Eberhard and many more.

Ali Jackson

Award-winning musician, composer, arranger, educator, and percussionist Ali Jackson developed his talent at an early age. A virtuoso, Ali has contributed significant musical works as a composer and arranger and he holds the distinction of being the first percussionist to perform and create music across the entire spectrum of musical styles. He began playing drums at the age of two and piano by the age of five. As a child growing up in Detroit, Ali found himself immersed in serious study alongside his father, the great jazz bassist Ali Jackson Sr., who gave him an intense introduction to music, taking him on gigs where he began playing professionally at eight years old. Ali’s natural ability and passion for music bloomed and by the age of 11 his aptitude flourished as a result of a steady stream of lessons and mentoring from an all-star lineup of music legends, including Max Roach, Milt Hinton, Dr

Michael Szekely