Brian Blade, Philly Joe Jones, Glenn Kotche, Carl Allen, Larry Levis, Radiohead, The Beatles, U2, Tony Williams, Rob Collier, Wayne Shorter, Chet Baker, Elvin Jones, Jason Tiemann, Anthony LaMarca, Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, Bela Bartok, Kurt Vonnegut. That's not even the beginning
New York City drummer and multi-instrumentalist Jason Lawrence was born in Louisville, KY. He loves his hometown.
He has recently played shows and toured with Dean & Britta, Dawn Landes, Caithlin DeMarrais, Balthrop Alabama, The Caledonia Mission, The Kelsey Jillette Group, Moby, April Smith and the Great Picture Show, El May, The Ne'er Do Evers.
In 2007 Jason graduated from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where he studied jazz with Ari Hoenig, Reggie Workman, Carl Allen, Buster Williams, Chico Hamilton, Ben Street, Junior Mance, Rory Stuart, Bobby Sanabria and many more.
He can be heard playing drums on recent recordings by El May, Caithlin DeMarrais, Balthrop Alabama, The Caledonia Mission, and the New School Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra with special guest Sonny Fortune. Jason is a current member of Balthrop Alabama, the Kelsey Jillette Group, The Caledonia Mission.
In the summer of 2009 he performed on drums, bass and guitar for Dean and Britta's "13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests" at the LA Film Festival.
Balthrop, Alabama has toured extensively all over the country in the last year and a half.
In 2008, he toured Australia with El May, including opening for Feist at a sold-out show at the Metro in Sydney.
Jason continues to play, write, work, build.
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Hope all is well with you. Thought I'd drop by and let you know I have recently uploaded a new acoustic demo called Scream And Shout. Hope you like it. Have a listen anyway, see what you think....
Yo Jasooooooooooooon! Thanks for adding me on myspace! How is your summer going? I'm still back in Warsaw. Cameron left my place on Saturday to ride a bike to Mongolia. He's in the south of Poland right now. That's pretty awesome, right? I'll see you as soon as I get back to NY.
