DOUG HAMMOND

 

DOUG HAMMOND – drummer, percussionist, composer

 

He studied at the Howard W. Blake Perfomance Arts High School in Tampa, Florida: General Music, theory, harmony, sight singing, African and Afro-Cuban music, blues, jazz, European classical, directing and percussion with Prof. Thomas J. Simpson .

As a drummer and percussionist he performed with the best of American jazz:

1962-63 Earl Hooker, The Five Royals, Sam and Dave, Little Willie John

1965 Kirk Lightsey, Motown Artist, James "Blood" Ulmer

1966 Donald Byrd-Sonny Red, Joseph Jarmen, Betty Carter, Chet Baker, Marcus Belgrave.

1968 with Sonny Rollins, Donald Byrd, Hank Crawford, Focus Novii

1970-71 with Kenny Dorham, James Blood Ulmer, O C Smith, Sea of Nurnen-David Durrah

1972-75 he performed with Charles Mingus, Sam Rivers, Howard Johnson,
Doug Hammond/Sonny Fortune Octet , Lonnie Liston.

1975 Charles Mingus, Howard Johnson, Marion Williams, Etta James, Lowel Fulson.

1976-84 he performed with Arthur Blythe, Sammy Price/Hal Singer, Nina Simone, and many others. He is currently teaching on Bruckner's Conservatory in Linz, Austria.

 

DOUG HAMMOND – bobni, tolkala, skladatelj

 

Na Howard W. Blake Perfomance Arts High School v Tampi, Florida je študiral splošno glabo, teorijo, harmonijo, glasbeno branje, Afriško in Afro-Kubansko glasbo, blues, jazz, evropsko klasično glasbo, vodenje in tolkala s profesorjem Thomasom J. Simpsonom. 

Kot bobnar in tolkalec je nastopal z največjimi mojstri ameriškega jazza:

1962-63 Earl Hooker, The Five Royals, Sam and Dave, Little Willie John

1965 Kirk Lightsey, Motown Artist, James "Blood" Ulmer

1966 Donald Byrd-Sonny Red, Joseph Jarmen, Betty Carter, Chet Baker, Marcus Belgrave

1968 Sonny Rollins, Donald Byrd, Hank Crawford, Focus Novi

1970 - 71 Kenny Dorham, James Blood Ulmer, O C Smith, Sea of Nurnen-David Durrah

1972 - 75 Charles Mingus, Sam Rivers, Howard Johnson, Doug Hammond/Sonny Fortune Octet , Lonnie Liston.

1975 Charles Mingus, Howard Johnson, Marion Williams, Etta James, Lowel Fulson

1976-84 Blythe, Sammy Price/Hal Singer, Nina Simone, Mal Waldron, Doug Hammond Trio,

Trenutno uči na Brucknerjevem konzervatoriju v Linzu v Avstriji.