Cornell Rochester

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Cornell W. Rochester (born July 1957 in Philadelphia ) is an American fusion and jazz musician ( drums ).

Live and act

Rochester started playing drums when he was a child. He received lessons from Sherman Ferguson and played in local funk bands and organ trios. 1980 brought him Odean Pope into his band; together with Gerald Veasley the album Almost Like Me (Moers Music, 1982) was created. In 1982 he also appeared with James Blood Ulmer . In the next few years Jamaaladeen Tacuma brought him into his band. Together with Veasley, he recorded the album One Minute of Love for Gramavision Records in 1985 , for which there was a collaboration with Willie Williams , but also with Ulmer and with John Zorn . In the late 1980s he was part of The Zawinul Syndicate and then worked with Ulmer and David Murray (and other saxophonists) in the Music Revelation Society . In 1993 he released his debut album under his own name ( I Said Your Mother's on the Pipe ). In Europe there were also meetings with Tacuma and the Dutch Paul van Kemenade , Wolter Wierbos and Jan Kuiper . In recent years he has only performed sporadically, for example in 2017 in a trio with Pope and Veasley. There were also recordings with Friedrich Gulda and Adam Unsworth.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography (Paul van Kemenade)
  2. ^ Grove Music Online / The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
  3. ^ Sittin in at the Kimmel Center
personal data
SURNAME Rochester, Cornell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rochester, Cornell W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fusion and jazz musician (drummer)
DATE OF BIRTH July 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia