Taru Alexander

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Taru Alexander (born December 18, 1967 in Brooklyn ) is an American jazz musician ( drums , percussion ) of the post bop .

Live and act

Alexander grew up in Brooklyn as the son of tenor saxophonist Roland Alexander . At the age of 9 he took drum lessons with Rudy Collins , Andre Strobert and Walter Perkins at the New Muse Music School in Brooklyn. At the age of 13 Taru began performing professionally with his father's quintet with Kiani Zawadi on trombone , Hilton Ruiz on piano and Paul Brown on bass . At the same time he began taking drum lessons with Justin DiCioccio at New York's La Guardia Music & Art High School . He has been active on the American jazz scene since the mid-1980s. He played u. a. with Fred Ho and the Afro Asian Music Ensemble , with whom the first recordings were made in 1985 ( Tomorrow Is Now! ), also with Miles Griffith ( Spiritual Freedom , 1994), Carlos Garnett ( Resurgence , 1995), Rodney Kendrick ( Last Chance for Common Sense ), in the 2000s with Salim Washington ( Harlem Homecoming ), Gerry Eastman and Michael Marcus ( Lotus Symphony , 2008).

Under his own name he recorded the album KoJo Time , with which he paid tribute to his father Roland Alexander. With him he also released the album Live at the Lennox Lounge , which was created in 1994 in the jazz club of the same name . He has also played with Roy Hargrove , Gary Bartz , Kenny Davis , Lonnie Plaxico , Betty Carter , Abbey Lincoln ( We Used to Dance ), Sonny Simmons and Branford Marsalis during his career . He lives in New York, where he performs with his own quintet (to which Hanka G also belongs); He is currently (2019) also a member of the quartet of the pianist Kirk Lightsey and the Justin Robinson Quartet. In the field of jazz he was involved in 15 recording sessions between 1985 and 2008.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://harlemjazzboxxblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/02/taru-alexander-trio/
  2. ↑ Taru Alexander. Smalls, August 1, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 1, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Alexander, Taru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (drums, percussion)
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn