POOGIE BELL
Genres: RnB, Funk Jazz • United States

Poogie Bell is a world renowned drummer, composer, arranger, and record producer. He has performed and recorded with Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross, Roberta Flack, Herbie Hancock, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, Erykah Badu, David Bowie, John Scofield, David Sanborn, Angelique Kidjo, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Vanessa Williams, Stanley Turrentine, Victor Wooten, Randy Crawford, and many more. Poogie cowrote with Victor Bailey “Touch and Go” the title track of Force MD’s debut album that won the ASCAP Urban Music Writers award for Top 10 Singles in 1998. He now leads the Poogie Bell Band. Poogie was born in Pittsburgh 1961 spending his early years in the steel city. His father Charles Bell was a jazz pianist who graduated from the Carnegie Institute before leading his own band called the Charles Bell Contemporary Jazz Quartet. Charles was commioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony to write a three movement jazz symphony called “Concerto in read more...