Results for "Drums"

Kasper Tom Christiansen

Kasper Tom belongs to the new generation of drummers who mix music from many genres and makes it his own. He graduated from the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, Denmark, and lived and worked in Berlin from 2007-2010. Since 2006 he has been leading his own bands which include Rudi Mahall, Marek Kadziela and Mads la Cour. He released CDs on Stunt Records, WhyPlayJazz and Gateway Music with the bands Kran and QUARTz. He has played tours in Denmark, Poland, Germany and USA and played at festivals including Copenhagen Jazzfestival, Leverkusener Jazztage, Jazz w Ruinach and Jazz nad Odra, to name a few

Maxx Digital

Born: February 7

Studied Music at Alexandra School of Music. Can read and write music and has basic understanding of other instruments. Versitile and willing to learn any new genre. Any challenge is worth attempting, as long as I gain sumthing form the experience.

Louis Moutin

Chris Teal

Born: January 20, 1983

Chris Teal is a drummer & percussionist based in Rochester, New York. He currently leads the progressive jazz group "Quintopus", featuring original music as well as interpretations of recent popular artists including Bjork, Radiohead, and Sufjan Stevens. Their debut album, "Voyage to Ornoc" was released in 2010 on ears&eyes Records. Chris performs regularly with the Po' Boys Brass Band, the Dave Rivello Ensemble, Crescent City Connection, Madeline Forster, and the Katie Ernst Trio as well as maintaining an active freelance career. Originally from Spokane, Washington, Chris graduated from Whitworth University (BA '05) before moving to Rochester and finishing a MM from the Eastman School of Music in 2009

David Miller

Born: January 20, 1985

Dave Miller is a drummer, improviser, dance accompanist, and educator. His work specializes in avant-garde, free jazz, experimental and improvisational musics, having performed worldwide from Japan to Sweden, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Slovakia, Austria, Beglium and the Czech Republic.

Significant projects having toured worldwide include Tzadik recording artists PET BOTTLE NINGEN (with Nonoko Yoshida and David Scanlon), GSI Studio band KARL 2000, Legendary American producer Martin Bisi, and guitarist-conceptualist Ryan Clackner.  Miller's work is based in acoustic drum and percussion aesthetics with predominantly improvisational performance ideology. Major musical collaborators include Daniel Carter, Rob Duguay, Satoko Fujii, Chuck Bettis, Natsuki Tamura, Robert Boston, Jonas Labhart, Blaise Siwula, Otomo Yoshihide, Toru Tenda, Nobuyoshi Ino, David Schnug, Welf Dorr Unit, Brad Farberman & MIDDLE BLUE and Marco Cappelli's ITALIAN SURF ACADEMY. Dave also works with the contemporary classical ensemble S.E.M. (directed by Peter Kotik) which has performed work by and alongside Roscoe Mitchell of The Art Ensemble of Chicago. 

Diego Pinera

The drummer Diego Pinera grew up in Montevideo (Uruguay) and has now been living in Germany for several years. He studied drumming at the Berklee College of Music (USA), at the University of Music in Havana (Cuba) and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. He received lessons from Danilo Perez, Bob Moses, Jose Luis Quintana ‘Changuito’, and Kenwood Denard. Back in Uruguay he founded the Diego Pinera Trio and recorded the CD Buscando with the Perro Andaluz label. He eventually returned to Germany, where he founded the Berlin Quartett and recorded Reflexiones feat. Tony Lakatos

Richie Morales

Richie Morales is a versatile player whose credits range from the seminal jazz-fusion of the Brecker Brothers and Mike Stern, the Latin jazz of Gato Barbieri, Ray Barretto and Grammy Award winning Latin Jazz flutist Dave Valentin, to the experimental and innovative jazz of Dave Brubeck, George Russell, and the world music of Herbie Mann. Richie has performed and recorded with such contemporary artists as Grover Washington Jr., Stevie Wonder, Carly Simon, Dianne Reeves, guitarist Mike Stern, Dave Valentin, bassist Victor Bailey, George Russell’s Living Time Orchestra, as well as the Al DiMeola Electric Project, saxophonist Bill Evans and Grammy Award winning vibraphonist Dave Samuels

Magnus Ostrom

Born: May 3, 1965

Magnus Öström was born in Skultuna, Sweden as second son to local painter Arne and Siv Öström. His brother, Tommy, was three years older and influenced Magnus in his early years with his eclectic record collection including Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. At the age of eight Magnus built his first drum kit out of his fathers empty paint cans and only a year later he started his first band together with a kid from across the street, Esbjörn Svensson. In 1978 his brother took him to a concert of Billy Cobham with John McLaughlin, an experience that turned his musical world upside down and got him into jazz-rock. In 1985 Magnus moved to Stockholm to study at the Royal Conservatory of Music where he immediately started to play in different bands on Stockholm’s jazz scene

Nasar Abadey

George Mel

Born: February 22, 1970

George Mel has worked as a freelance drummer and percussionist in New York City since late 2000. While in New York, he has performed at such landmark venues as Carnegie Hall; Blue Note, NYC;Irridium,NYC; The Kitano,NYC; Zinc Bar, NYC; 55Bar, NYC; The Bitter End, NYC; Smalls, NYC; Smoke,NYC; Jazz Standard,NYC; The Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, PA; World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA; among others. Over the years George has performed both in the USA and Internationally with such diverse group of world-class artists of all generations as Duane Eubanks (trumpet), Bob Rodriguez (piano), Mark Helias (bass), Leni Stern (guitar/ voice),Essiet Essiet(bass), Valeri Ponomarev (trumpet), Avishai E.Cohen (trumpet), Emilio Solla (piano),Gabriel Grossi(harmonica), Enrique Haneine(piano),Jesse Murphy (bass "Brazilian Girls"), John Ellis (sax),Daniel Santiago(guitar), Raul Midon (guitar/voice), Wayne Escoffery (sax), Freddie Bryant (guitar), Edsel Gomez (piano), Nilson Matta (bass), Lionel Loueke (guitar/voice), Craig Handy (sax), Badal Roy (tablas w/Miles Davis),Sergio Brandao(bass),Victor Prieto(accordeon),Anat Cohen(sax), jazz clarinet legend Perry Robinson,Brazilian piano legend Dom Salvador and countless other top musicians from all-over the world. Born George 'Gia' Melikishvili, George Mel is a native of Tbilisi, Georgia, where at a young age he taught himself to play the drums