Billy Drummond

Fertile, exciting music." NEW YORK TIMES

Bandleader, educator, and much in-demand sideman, Billy Drummond cut his teeth apprenticing with jazz greats including Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, and Bobby Hutcherson, to become one of today's most versatile drummers - equally at home in the avant garde as well as hard-swinging bop realms. His cult-followed album Dubai (with Chris Potter, Walt Weiskopf and Peter Washington), which was picked as the Number 1 Jazz Album of the Year by the New York Times when it was released, was recently dubbed one of the "50 Crucial Jazz Drumming Recordings" of the past 100 years by Modern Drummer magazine.

"Thrilling (Downbeat), "powerful and highly musical" (AllAboutJazz), Drummond's playing, praised by Stanley Crouch as "having the kind of highly refined musical intelligence that Max Roach brought to drumming" has made him "one of the most called for players of his generation." (Fred Bouchard, Downbeat). He has over 300 sideman albums to his credit, as well as three as a bandleader and six as a co-leader - including 2016's Three's Company (Chesky), with Javon Jackson and Ron Carter, which made many of the year's Top Ten lists. Drummond's latest recording, Valse Sinistre, a DOWNBEAT Best Album of 2022, was picked as #3 in the Top 40 New Releases of 2022 JAZZTIMES, made #1 @applemusic JAZZ CURRENTS, and was the Editor's Choice in JAZZWISE magazine, among other accolades. Visit billydrummonddrums.com for more