Member of: The Octagon, Ball Governor, GlassBurns, Monkey King, The Shot Heard Round the World.
Collaborator with: Nat Baldwin, Dirty Projectors, Anthony Seck, Alfonso Velez, GOA, Shalabi Effect, Hannah Marcus, Mike Watt, John Heward, Kosher Dill Spears, Sam Shalabi.
RIP: Crackpot, Balai Mecanique, Sloth is the Love, The Vittles, Detroit Metal.
Influences
James Yancey; Ed Blackwell, Milford Graves, Andrew Cyrille, Max Roach, Roy Haynes; Ahmir Thompson, Karriem Riggins; RZA, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Madlib; Kenny Buttrey, Levon Helm, Earl Palmer, Charlie Watts, Billy Ficca; De La Soul, Ramones, the Four Tops, American Devices, the Meters, Neil Young and Crazy Horse; Don Pullen, John Coltrane, Fred Hopkins, Marshall Allen, Don Cherry, Richard Davis; Pistol Allen, Uriel Jones, Al Jackson, Clyde Stubblefield, Jabo Starks; James Brown, Sam Cooke, Al Green, Martha Reeves, Mary Wells, Otis Redding; D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Dwele, Bilal; Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants; "Criminal Minded," "Discipline 27-II," "Astral Weeks," "Black Woman"; "Exile on Main St.," "Green Mind"; Tape Op, Wax Poetics; "Ulysses," "Get Fuzzy"; Moe Tucker, Olatunji; Cristina Elena Brickman Gonzalez; Cycling; Canada.
(1980-) Born Michigan, raised there and also in Massachussetts and Montreal. Continuing to be raised in New York. Self-taught rock drummer, partially trained jazz drummer, nascent composer and producer, happily inept engineer, fundamentally an improviser.
hey man, did you know that in 2009, in honor of its 25th anniversary, the rolling stones are planning on re-releaseing their seminal 1974 album, Goat's Head Soup? but get this - they're planning on renaming the entire album to GOAT'S HEAD POOP! i shit you not!
Sublime to hear you cats as ever, I especially appreciated the very-Ornette-leaning-passages during the long jam, brought back some deep resonances. Message me with your e-mail and I will put you on the Latin-Jazz list; Joe Falcon (the bass player) is a big free fan too... Perhaps the three of us could jam out some time? I pedict: illness!
amazing: 20 years later & it's still kicking around! good score. 4.99 tho? ouch. I woulda expected it to be worth at least 5 bucks collector's item by now! there ain't many left
I heard you are killing it in the new Baldwin line-up; look forward to catching the full group sometime in the next few months, Nat was "ill" tonight on his own.
Hope you're doing well man, look forward to running into you sometime soon.
