Hamid Drake

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Hamid Drake at Club W71 2019
Drake at the Moers Festival 2006

Hamid Drake (born August 3, 1955 in Monroe , Louisiana ) is an American jazz musician (drums, percussion).

Live and act

Drake grew up in Chicago, where he learned the drums from Fred Anderson's son before taking his place in the Andersons band. Soon afterwards he also worked with George Lewis and other musicians from the AACM circle. Since 1978 he belonged like Adam Rudolph to Foday Musa Suso's Mandingo Griot Society and then played with Don Cherry and Jim Pepper , but also z. B. in the reggae scene in Chicago. He also played with the soul singer Melba Moore and in the rock band Animal Farm . He often works with William Parker , David Murray , Nicole Mitchell , Peter Brötzmann , Scott Fields , Georg Graew , Irène Schweizer and Ken Vandermark , but also with Bill Laswell , with Wadada Leo Smith , Viktor Tóth or with Michael Zerang . With Ab Baars , Luc Ex and Ingrid Laubrock he forms Luc Ex 'Assemblée .

Drake was one of the first American drummers to seriously study the percussion music traditions of other musical cultures and was considered one of the most outstanding percussionists in the late 1990s.

Selection discography

As a leader

  • Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom ( Okka Disk , 2000) with Joe McPhee
  • BrothersTogether (Eremite, 2001) with Sabir Mateen
  • Hu: Vibrational "Universal Mother (Soul Jazz)
  • Bindu ( RogueArt )
  • Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: For Ed Blackwell (1995, ed.Pink Palace Recordings 2015)

With Peter Brötzmann, William Parker

  • 2001 - Never too late but always too early (eremite 37/38)

With Scott Fields

  • 1997 - Five Frozen Eggs (Music & Arts)
  • 1999 - dénouement (Geode, Clean Feed 2007 reissue)

With David Murray

With Napoleon Maddox and IsWhat ?!

  • 2004 - You Figure It Out (Hyena)
  • 2006 - The Life We Chose (Hyena)

With Misha Mengelberg

With Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures

  • Contemplations
  • 12 arrows

With William Parker

  • 2001 - Piercing the Veil ( AUM Fidelity )
  • 2002 - Raining on the Moon (Thirsty Ear)
  • 2003 - Scrapbook (Thirsty Ear)
  • 2005 - Palm of Soul (AUM Fidelity) with Kidd Jordan
  • 2007 - First Communion / Piercing the Veil [LIVE]
  • 2007 - The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield-Live in Rome

With yakuza

  • 2007 - Transmutations (Prosthetic)

With Archie Shepp, Napoleon Maddox, Oliver Lake, Joe Fonda & Cochemea Gastelum

  • 2009 - Phat Jam In Milano

With Ned Rothenberg

  • 2018 - Full Circle - Live in Lodz (Foundation Listen)

With Dan Phillips

  • 2018 - Trail of Inevitability (Lizard Breath Records)

With Dave Liebman and Adam Rudolph

  • 2019 - Chi (RareNoiseRecords)

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personal data
SURNAME Drake, Hamid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Monroe , Louisiana