Keith Carlock

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Keith Carlock (* 29. November 1971 in Greenville , Mississippi ) is an American jazz - and fusion - drummer , who, among other things through his work with Sting and Steely Dan has excelled.

Life

Carlock grew up in Clinton in the greater Jackson (Mississippi) and began at a young age with the drumming. He studied jazz drums for four years at the University of North Texas with George Lawrence and Ed Soph, among others . With him he learned the Moeller technique, which he said fundamentally changed his drumming.

After working for a few years as a studio and live musician in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area , he shifted his professional focus with a move to New York in 1996. Since then he has established himself as a permanent fixture in the American music world, including with Sting , James Taylor , John Mayer , Steely Dan (since 1997), Diana Ross , The Blues Brothers , David Johansen , Grover Washington, Jr. , Clay Aiken , Oz Noy , Larry Carlton , Harry Belafonte . In 2014 he replaced longtime drummer Simon Phillips at Toto for the recording of the album Toto XIV . He left Toto after the North American tour in spring 2014.

Carlock lives in New York and Nashville with his wife and two children . In 2009 he released an instructional video DVD called The Big Picture: Phrasing, Improvisation, Style, and Technique. In the same year, he was voted best drummer in the Fusion and Pop categories in a Modern Drummer poll.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at drummerszone.com, accessed May 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ cf. MD interview (→ web links).
  3. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Steely Dan's website, accessed May 1, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steelydan.com
personal data
SURNAME Carlock, Keith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and fusion drummer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenvill , Mississippi , USA