Jim Black | |
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 Black performing in 2007 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Seattle, Washington |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Drums |
| Labels | Winter & Winter |
| Website | jimblack |
Jim Black is an American jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas. He attended Berklee College of Music.
His band AlasNoAxis includes Hilmar Jensson on electric guitar, Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clarinet, and Skúli Sverrisson on bass guitar. The music is in some ways closer to post-rock than jazz, concentrating on rhythmic shifts and ensemble texture rather than featured solos. Since 2000 Winter & Winter has released several of the band's albums.
Pachora includes Black, Speed, Sverrisson, and Brad Shepik on tambura and electric saz. This band plays music that is rhythmically diverse and inspired by Balkan rhythms.
Black participated as drummer 12 in the Boredoms 77 Boadrum performance on July 7, 2007 at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York.
He is also one-third of the group BBC (Berne/Black/Cline) with alto saxophonist Berne and Nels Cline of Wilco. The group released the album The Veil in 2011.[1]
With Human Feel
With BB&C
With Tim Berne
With Carlos Bica
With Uri Caine
With Dave Douglas
With Ellery Eskelin
With Chris Speed
With Pachora
With Endangered Blood
With Peter Evans
With Satoko Fujii
With Hilmar Jensson
With David Liebman
With Ben Monder
With others
