Podcast S1 E3 – Billy Drummond

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Recorded April 2023

Podcast interview with drummer Billy Drummond.

Billy Drummond is a jazz drummer based out of New York who has played with Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, J J Johnson, Sonny Rollins, and countless others. He’s also a great band leader with several wonderful records  under his own name. His most recent album as a leader, Valse Sinistre,  was a Downbeat Best Album of 2022.

Links:

• Billy Drummond’s website
• Facebook
• Thelonious Monk biography by Robin D.G. Kelley
• Monk’s Dreams by Frank Kimbrough
• The “Billy Drummond Sweep”
• Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
• Billy trading with Sonny Rollins
• Blow Up (live) by Bobby Hutcherson
• Glass Bead Games by Clifford Jordan
• The Great Jazz Trio

Other podcast interviews with Billy Drummond:

• Working Drummer
• Cool Toddcast
• Drummer’s Resource
• From the Drummer’s Perspective

After the interview Billy sent over a video of albums he’s been listening to recently. Here’s the list.

• John Lee Hooker – That’s My Story (Louis Hayes)
• Goldfinger soundtrack
• Philly Joe Jones – Showcase
• Sam Rivers Involution
• Hampton Hawes Live at the Montmartre
• Hampton Hawes – A Little Copenhagen Night Music
• Shostakovich The Age of Gold
• Igor Stravinsky Conducts
• One Night in Birdland by Charlie Parker 
• Audio Master Plus Series Sampler Vol. 1
• Suite for Frida Kahlo by James Newton Ensemble 
• Richard Davis Way Out West
• Isley Brothers 3+3
• Rit by Lee Ritenour
• Dexter Gordon – Tangerine
• Elvin Jones Jazz Machine Live in Japan 1978
• Black Uhuru – Red
• Max Roach Jazz in 3/4 Time
• Return to Forever No Mystery
• Artur Rubinstein / Henryk Szeryng – Beethoven Kreutzer And Spring Sonatas
• Irene Krall Gentle Rain
• Billy Harper The Believer
• Collins-Shepley Galaxy – Time, Space And The Blues
• Tony Williams Play or Die
• Jean Luc Ponty Enigmatic Ocean
• George Cables Bluesology
• Milt Jackson Sunflower
• Milt Jackson Goodbye

The song featured in this episode is Frankenstein by Billy Drummond & Freedom of Ideas from the album Valse Sinistre.

The drum intro is from Charles Ruggiero’s Loop Loft sample pack.