BILLY DRUMMOND
Genres: Post Bop, 21st Century Modern • United States

Bandleader, educator, recording artist and much in-demand sideman, Billy Drummond is a “thrilling” (Downbeat) “powerful, highly musical” (AllAboutJazz) drummer, who plays “fertile, exciting music” (New York Times) “with the kind of highly refined intelligence that Max Roach brought to drumming” (Stanley Crouch). Billy has made three albums as a bandleader (including Dubai, which was picked as the Number 1 Jazz Album of the Year by the New York Times) and six as a co-leader, including 2016’s Three’s Company with Ron Carter and Javon Jackson, which appeared on many of the year’s Top Ten lists, and has appeared on over 300 albums as a sideman. During a three-decades long career, Billy has played with a veritable who’s who of jazz, including Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, Ron Carter, Freddie Hubbard, Steve Kuhn Trio, Andrew Hill, Eddie Gomez, Joe Lovano, Javon Jackson, Chris Potter, Hank Jones, Larry Willis, Eddie Henderson, Eric Reed, Toots Thielmans, read more...