Billy Drummond

Mentored in the bands of jazz legends Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, J J Johnson and Sonny Rollins, Billy Drummond is one of today’s most in-demand drummers, appearing on over 350 albums, as well as four as a leader—including Dubai, a New York Times # 1 Jazz Album of the Year—and Valse Sinistre (Cellar Live), a Downbeat Best Album of 2022. Modern Drummer magazine recently honored Dubai as one of the 50 Crucial Jazz Drumming Recordings of the Past 100 Years. In the early 1980s,Drummond was encouraged by Al Foster to move to New York, where he was almost immediately recruited to the young band Out of the Blue (OTB), recording Spiral Staircase for Blue Note Records. When OTB disbanded, Billy joined Horace Silver’s Sextet, simultaneously starting life-long associations with Buster Williams and Bobby Hutcherson, and subsequently joining J J Johnson’s band, followed by a three-year stint touring with Sonny Rollins. He has performed and recorded with many of the world’s jazz greats, including Joe Henderson, Steve Kuhn, Charles Tolliver, Nat Adderley, Charles McPherson, Eddie Henderson, James Moody, Sheila Jordan, Andrew Hill, Ron Carter, Carla Bley, Eddie Gomez, Larry Willis, Hank Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Konitz, Stanley Cowell, Archie Shepp, Joe Lovano, Javon Jackson, Chris Potter, Eric Reed, Ralph Moore, Vincent Herring, Laurent DeWilde, Jan Lundgren and Michel LeGrand. billydrummonddrums.com