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Pete Zimmer Quintet

Pete Zimmer Quintet: Judgment

by Samuel Chell
December 24, 2006

Les Paul, the “Wizard of Waukesha," may be the better-known musician, but the guitarist's spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship is clearly evident in a fellow Waukesha native, drummer Pete Zimmer. Unable to find a studio to record his music, Zimmer founded his own label, frequently featuring other Wisconsinites (Rich Germanson, John Sullivan, Joel Frahm) and, on ...

Pete Zimmer Quintet: Judgment

by Michael P. Gladstone
December 21, 2006

Drummer and bandleader Pete Zimmer hasn't lost a step in getting his product to the people. Arriving in New York around the time of 9/11, he understandably found it difficult to get a record deal. So he created his own label, Tippin', on which Judgment is Zimmer's third release. He essentially keeps the same personnel from ...

Pete Zimmer Quintet: Judgment

by Terrell Kent Holmes
November 21, 2006

Pete Zimmer pays homage to the music and innovators of the hard bop era on Judgment, an inspired and sometimes exceptional collection of mostly original tunes played by a wonderful group of musicians who clearly share the drummer's admiration of the standards. “The Mingus That I Knew, written by guest George Garzone, captures ...

Pete Zimmer Quintet at Cecil's Jazz Club

by David A. Orthmann
September 25, 2006

Pete Zimmer Quintet Cecil's Jazz Club West Orange, NJ August 11, 2006 An enterprising young drummer, composer, and bandleader, Pete Zimmer stakes his claim inside of the broad parameters of hard bop. Throughout a pair of releases on Zimmer's Tippin' Records label, Common Man and Burnin' Live At The Jazz ...

Pete Zimmer Quintet: Burnin' Live At The Jazz Standard

by Michael P. Gladstone
June 14, 2006

Pete Zimmer, a native of Waukesha, Wisconson, studied jazz drumming and orchestra percussion at North Ilinois University. While a student at NIU, he was able to learn under the aegis of Chicago drummer Jeff Stitely. In 1998, Zimmer moved to Boston to complete his education at the New England Conservatory, studying under the tutelage of Panamanian ...

Pete Zimmer Quintet: Common Man

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
August 25, 2005

Though not as rare as they once were, outfits led by drummer/composers are still a minority in jazz. Picking up that mantle, Pete Zimmer, the young drummer best known for his work with saxophonist George Garzone, defies the cliche that drummers' records are nothing more than chops-driven accompanied drum solos. His debut, Common Man, serves up ...

Pete Zimmer: Common Man

By Pete Zimmer Quintet

Label: Tippin' Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Search 2. Road Taken 3. Common Man 4. A Whole New You 5. Time That Once Was 6. 5 A.M. Blues 7. Hustlin' 8. Daytona 9. Darn That Dream 10. Common Man (alternate take)

Pete Zimmer: Common Man

by Paul Olson
December 10, 2004

Pete Zimmer Quintet Common Man Tippin' Records 2004 A couple of years ago I was talking about music with a friend, and on the subject of jazz he said, dismissively, “nothing new is happening in jazz music. The last real innovation was at least thirty years ago." I didn't even ...

Pete Zimmer Quintet: Common Man

by Jochem van Dijk
December 10, 2004

Common Man is a crafty collection of mostly originals by drummer and session leader Pete Zimmer, strictly within a Fifties bop idiom with strokes of modal playing. This is a record made by mainstream sidemen who love to blow, pure and simple. Zimmer and his pals obviously can play, and they have a nose for patching ...