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Taru Alexander

Taru Alexander is American jazz drummer, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of jazz legend Roland Alexander, an American post-bop jazz tenor saxophone player from Boston, Massachusetts. Taru started to play drums at the early age of seven years old surrounded by the greatest jazz musicians like Freddie Hubbard, Reggie Workman, Gary Bartz and Kiani Zawadi. At the age of nine he was studying drumsunder the leadership of master drummers Rudy Collins, Andre Strobert and Walter Perkins at the New Muse music school in Brooklyn, New York. By the age of thirteen, Taru started to perform professionally with his father Roland Alexander's quintet (Roland Alexander-tenor saxophone, Kiani Zawadi-trombone, Hilton Ruiz-piano, Paul Brown-bass)

Universal Ancestry

By HANKA G

Label: Culture Bridge Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: All The Man That I Need; Be Grateful; Through The Fire; As You Are; Dance Dance; Someday We'll All Be Free; Throw It Away; Them There Eyes; In Search Of My Heart; I Am Such A Pretty Girl; Bird Has Started Singing.

Luke Stewart, Pablo Held, MonoNeon, John Hebert & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 19, 2022

From the irresistible Afro dancefloor life-affirming music of Nubyian Twist to two tributes to Wayne Shorter's contribution to the Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet, and a whole lot of other jazz declinations in this set. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Nubiyan Twist “If ...

Trust Me

By Gerry Eastman

Label: WMC records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Trust Me; St Marteen Swing; Native Son; Learn From Youir Mistakes; Just A Matter of Time; Distant Lover; Dance Once; Cuban Sunset

Gerry Eastman Trio: Trust Me

by Jack Bowers
September 25, 2021

Trust Me embodies more than an hour of tasteful contemporary jazz by a decisively hip guitar/organ/drums trio led by New York-bred Gerry Eastman on guitar with Greg Lewis at the Hammond B3 and Taru Alexander manning the drum set. The program consists of eight of Eastman's original compositions, each of which is polished and credible but ...