Don alias
Charles "Don" Alias (born December 25, 1939 in New York City , † March 28, 2006 ibid) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist.
Life
Don Alias grew up in Harlem / New York City . He attended Cannon College in Erie and studied at the Carnegie Institute for Biochemistry in Boston . There he played with Tony Williams , Chick Corea and Bill Fitch . His first professional engagement was in Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band in 1957 . He was with Gene Perla member of the salsa band Los Muchachos and changed this to Nina Simone's band. In 1969/70 he worked with Miles Davis on the album Bitches Brew and in 1989 on Amandla , then played in groups such as Weather Report and Blood, Sweat & Tears and with musicians such as Jeremy Steig , Mongo Santamaría , Joni Mitchell , Herbie Hancock , Sting and Jaco Pastorius , with David Sanborn since the 1980s . In 1992 he worked with Bill Frisell , Greg Cohen , Art Baron and Don Byron as part of the Charles Mingus project Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus . One of the last albums he excelled on was the Mike Stern production "These Times".
He also directed his own bands Stone Alliance , which he founded with Gene Perla and Steve Grossman in the 1960s, and Kebekwa , which he founded in Québec , Canada in the 1980s . He last performed with Stone Alliance in 2004 in Amsterdam and 2005 in Bremen.
Web links
- Stone Alliance
- Don Alias at drummerworld.com
- Don Alias at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alias, Don |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alias, Charles (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2006 |
| Place of death | New York City |