Joe LaBarbera
Joseph James LaBarbera (born February 22, 1948 in Mount Morris , New York ) is an American jazz drummer and composer, best known as a member of the last trio of Bill Evans .
Joe LaBarbera is the younger brother of saxophonist Pat LaBarbera and trumpeter and arranger John LaBarbera . He received drums, clarinet and saxophone lessons from his father, played in the family band and studied for two years at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1966 with Alan Dawson , Charlie Mariano , John LaPorta and Herb Pomeroy . He then spent two years in a US Army band in Fort Dix, New Jersey. In the 1970s he played with Gap Mangione (1970), in Chuck Mangione's quartet (with interruptions from 1972 to 1979) and from 1971 to 1973Woody Herman . As a freelancer in New York he worked a. a. with Phil Woods , Art Farmer , Jim Hall , Gary Burton , Art Pepper , John Scofield , Bob Brookmeyer and Toots Thielemans . In 1979 his first album was released under his own name ("Coincidence"). From 1978 he was with bassist Marc Johnson in the last trio of Bill Evans for two years . Then he played in the 1980s a. a. with singer Tony Bennett (for 12 years), Jim Hall, Phil Woods, Conte Candoli , and Scott Hamilton . Since 1986 he has taught at Arizona State University and from 1993 at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia near Los Angeles (where he has lived since 1987), but also teaches at many other schools and at the Bud Shank Jazz Workshop in Port Townsend in Washington. From the beginning of the 1990s he played with his own quintet and z. B. with Billie Mays , Randy Brecker , Eddie Daniels , Alan Broadbent , Kenny Wheeler , Baseline (with John Abercrombie and Hein van de Geyn ), Bud Shank (South America tour), Lee Konitz (Japan tour), Diane Schuur , the WDR Big Band and with his brother Pat in the band JMOG
In 1999 he founded the label "Jazz Compass" with Tom Warrington , Larry Koonse and Clay Jenkins, where his first recording was released under his own name ("The Joe LaBarbera Quintet Live").
literature
- M. Kunzler "Jazz Lexicon". Rowohlt
Web links
- LaBarbera in Drummer World
- Biography, with a link to an interview in "Modern Drummer" 2002
- Interview with Jason West 2001
- His label
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | LaBarbera, Joe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | LaBarbera, Joseph James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Morris , Livingston County , New York |