Doug Hammond

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Doug Hammond (born December 26, 1942 in Tampa / Florida) is an American jazz musician (drummer, composer, singer).

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Hammond took trombone lessons from the age of eight and studied at the Howard W. Blake Performance Arts High School in Tampa from 1957 to 1968 . From 1962 he was already working as a drummer. He played u. a. for Earl Hooker , Stanley Cowell , Kenny Dorham , Bobby Hutcherson , Sam Rivers , Charles Mingus ( Mingus Moves , 1973), Sonny Rollins , Sammy Price , Donald Byrd , Nina Simone , Betty Carter and Marion Williams . He also worked in the musician collective Tribe .

In 1975 Hammond came to Europe, where he first played with Wolfgang Dauner . In 1977 he became a member of Peter Giger's Family of Percussion . He also worked with Sigi Busch and Sulaiman Hakim as well as with Aladár Pege and Al Foster . Since 1981 he has presented his own trio with Steve Coleman and the cellist Muneer Abdul Fataah ("Folks", 1980; "Perspicuity", 1991). In 1982 he performed with Paquito D'Rivera at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival . He also worked with Lou Blackburn's group Mombasa , with Mal Waldron , Amina Claudine Myers , Marcus Belgrave and Kirk Lightsey . He has also worked on recordings by Özay Fecht , James Blood Ulmer , Arthur Blythe and the tenor tribute by Arnett Cobb , Jimmy Heath and Joe Henderson . In 2007 he released the album A Real Deal on the Heavenly Sweetness label (with Kirk Lightsey). The album New Beginning followed in 2010, Reflections in the Sea of ​​Nurnen in 2020 .

Hammond lives in Linz . Since 1989 he has been a professor at the jazz department of the Anton Bruckner Private University there . He not only emerged as a drummer and percussionist, but also as a composer of large-scale works for classical chamber music ensembles. In addition, he has so far presented four volumes of poetry.

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SURNAME Hammond, Doug
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (drummer, composer, singer)
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Tampa (Florida)