Jim Black

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Jim Black (born August 3, 1967 in Daily City , California ) is an American jazz drummer and composer.

Jim Black at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2009
Jim Black (Moers Festival 2008)

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Black grew up in Seattle / Washington . In 1985 he went to Boston to the Berklee College of Music to attend. During this time he recorded his first albums with the group Human Feel , which included Chris Speed , Kurt Rosenwinkel and Andrew D'Angelo , and toured Europe. Then he first settled in Seattle, where he worked with Wayne Horvitz .

In 1991 he moved to Brooklyn where he became a member of Tim Berne 's Bloodcount , Dave Douglas ' Tiny Bell Trio, and the Ellery Eskelin Trio . He also worked with Paul Motian , Charlie Haden , Uri Caine , Christopher Dell , Carla Bley , Nels Cline , Peter Epstein and Matt Darriaus Paradox Trio . With Chris Speed, Skúli Sverrisson and Brad Shepik he first founded Pachora and then with Speed, Sverrisson and Hilmar Jensson his own band AlasNoAxis , with which he recorded several albums each. He is also a member of the Trio Azul with Carlos Bica and Frank Möbus . In addition to the recordings with his own band, he can be heard on over a hundred albums as a sideman. He also toured with Laurie Anderson and dealt intensively with electronic music .

Jim Black is not to be confused with the drummer Jimmy Carl Black .

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"Playing with percussive surfaces and equipped with an airy, complex sense of rhythm and a pronounced spirit of experimentation, he can set personal accents in every context from new music to free jazz to techno ."

- Wolf Kampmann

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SURNAME Black, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz drummer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Daily City