Tom Rainey
Tom Rainey (* 1957 in Los Angeles ) is an American jazz drummer. “With melodic inventiveness and enormous dynamic differentiation,” according to Martin Kunzler, “he continues the concept of simplicity in complexity and complexity in simplicity, founded by Paul Motian . "
Live and act
Rainey grew up in Santa Barbara . At the age of sixteen he first appeared professionally as a musician. After attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, he worked in San Francisco before moving to New York City in 1979 . There he worked with Ratzo Harris , with whom he belonged to several bands, including fifteen years the Kenny Werner Trio and the band of the trumpeter Herb Robertson . In the early 1980s he met Tim Berne , with whom he recorded several albums until the mid-1980s and then from 1996 onwards. He currently belongs to a. Bernes group Paraphrase , the Fred Hersch Trio and Ingrid Laubrock's Sleepthief . In 2010 he presented his first album pool school with Laubrock and guitarist Mary Halvorson , followed by the trio album Camino Cielo Echo (2012). In 2020 he presented the duo album Stir Crazy Episodes 1-15 with Laubrock .
In addition, he took u. a. with Jane Ira Bloom , Fred Hersch , Mark Helias , Brad Shepik , Tony Malaby , Angelica Sanchez , Nels Cline , Klaus König , Simon Nabatov ( Sneak Preview , 1999) and Andrea Parkins , but also with representatives of the Down Town scene of the eighties such as Gerry Hemingway , Joey Baron , Bobby Previte , John Hollenbeck , Kenny Wollesen and Jim Black . In total he has worked on about eighty albums.
As a composer he wrote a concerto for percussion and jazz drums for the National Endowment for the Arts , which he premiered with Dave Samuels and Arto Tunçboyacıyan .
Discographic notes
- Tom Rainey Trio - Combobulated (Intakt, 2019)
- Ken Vandermark , Nate Wooley , Sylvie Courvoisier and Tom Rainey: Noise of Our Time (2018)
Lexigraphic entries
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
Web links
- Discography at Allmusic
- Tom Rainey at Allmusic (English)
- Tom Rainey at Discogs (English)
- Interview (2016)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rainey, Tom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |