Jon Hazilla

Jon Hazilla (* 1956 ) is an American jazz - drummer and university teacher.

Live and act

Hazilla studied with Max Roach , Joe Morello, and John Riley ; he worked on Ran Blake's 1986 album Short Life of Barbara Monk ( Soul Note ). In the late 1980s he played as a session musician for Cadence Jazz Records and in 1987 in the formation Cadence All Stars with Ernie Krivda , Glenn Wilson , Rory Stewart and others. a. In 1987 there was also a first album, Chicplacity , with Ray Drummond and John Hicks ; 1994 the album The Bitten Moon for Cadence , on which James Williams and Ray Drummond participated. In the mid-1990s, Hazilla founded the Saxabone formation with trombonist John Pierce , alto saxophonist Jim Oldgren , tenor saxophonist Greg Badolato and bassist Bruce Barth ; In 1997 the joint album Form and Function was created on CIMP . participated.

Hazilla is a professor at Berklee College of Music ; he published u. a. the DVD Brush Control Drums - The Key to Mastering Brushes and appears in Boston with its own trio and various formations.

Discographic notes

• Chicplacity (1987) with Ray Drummond and John Hicks
• The Bitten Moon (Cadence, 1994)
• CJQ (1997) with Tom Varner and Bill Pierce
• Form and Function (CIMP, 1997)
• Tiny Capers (Double-Time, 2000)

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .

Web links

• Works by Jon Hazilla in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jon Hazilla at Discogs (English)
• Jon Hazilla on berklee.edu