Andrew Drury

Probably one of the most inquisitive and exploratory drummer/percussionists in 21st hundred years creative improvised jazz, Brooklyn-based Andrew Drury can be a composer, bandleader, and collaborator involved with an array of tasks, and he’s dynamic in educational and sociable programs over the USA and internationally. For Drury, music is obviously a car for pushing limitations of creativity, nonetheless it can also favorably donate to the lives from the disadvantaged, from homeless people and Native Us citizens within the U.S. to youngsters of Guatemala and Nicaragua. So when he isn’t behind the drum occur a recording studio room or live location, or leading a rubbish percussion workshop in a homeless shelter, Drury may be within his kitchen, producing soup to opt for the music. Created in Bellevue, Washington in 1964, Drury was raised within the Seattle region and in Bainbridge Isle, Washington, and started playing drums in 1976 during sixth quality. When it arrived time to select a university, he headed over the continental U.S. to the contrary coastline, arriving in Middletown, Connecticut at age group 18 to wait Wesleyan College or university, where he researched drums with Artist-in-Residence and previous Ornette Coleman Quartet drummer Ed Blackwell between 1983 and his graduation in 1988. Drury’s long term wife, Alissa Schwartz, was still going to Wesleyan after Andrew graduated, therefore he continued to be in Middletown and started his multidisciplinary creative efforts, including a single piece of efficiency art composed of percussion, tape, and poetry about U.S. participation within the Salvadoran Civil Battle. During the past due-’80s and early-’90s in Middletown, Drury also performed innovative jazz and improvised music with famous brands Wadada Leo Smith, Brad Mehldau, Wallace Roney, Vincent Herring, Chris Lightcap, Mario Pavone, Joe Fonda, and Matt Moran. Nevertheless, the peripatetic Drury didn’t stay anchored in Connecticut, rather carrying out and photographing drum solos within the deserts and mountains from the Traditional western U.S. for his Globe Solos task, and in 1992 Drury and Schwartz embarked on annually of travel in European countries and Central America, carrying out (like a counterpoint towards the celebratory actions taking place at that time) road movie theater protesting the entrance of Christopher Columbus within the Americas 500 years previous. Time for the U.S. after their worldwide moves, Drury and Schwartz resolved within the Seattle region through the remainder from the ’90s, and Drury became area of the essential creative music picture there, documenting his first record being a head, Polish Movie theater Posters, on the Seattle area’s Keep Creek Studios in August 1996. Made by Wayne Horvitz and offering Drury became a member of by alto saxophonist Briggan Krauss, tenor saxophonist/bass clarinetist Craig Flory, electrical guitarist Timothy Youthful, and acoustic bassist Phil Sparks, with guests Eyvind Kang on violin, Brent Arnold on cello, and Steve Moore on trombone, Polish Movie theater Posters was released with the Montreal-based Crimson Toucan label in 1998. The entire year after Polish Movie theater Posters’ discharge, Drury and Schwartz had been drawn back again east, and transferred to the brand new York Town borough of Brooklyn, although Drury journeyed backwards and forwards between NY and Seattle on the ensuing years, leading and taking part in tasks on both coasts and different locations among, often with basis and arts council support. He offered as Artist-in-Residence using the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, and during his moves over the U.S. (and on excursions to villages in Guatemala and Nicaragua) he carried out over 1,000 rubbish percussion workshops in varied configurations including — furthermore to Indian reservations — museums, universities, homeless shelters, and prisons. Drury’s second recording like a innovator, My Fingertips Will Become Your Tears, offering the drummer became a member of by saxophonist Krauss and pianist Myra Melford, found its way to 2000 for the Cadence Jazz label. Krauss, Melford, violinist Kang, and tenor saxophonist/clarinetist Chris Acceleration and bassist Tag Dresser made an appearance alongside Drury for the drummer’s following outing, A Momentary Lapse, released by Innova in 2003. His following record would be released with the Portuguese Innovative Resources imprint in 2007; the self-explanatory Renditions: Solos 2004-2007 highlighted 12 single percussion pieces documented by Drury in Brooklyn more than a several-year period. In 2005, he made an appearance over the Jessica Lurie & Andrew Drury Duo record THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT It’s Prefer to End up being, highlighted on drums, percussion, and vocals alongside Lurie on saxophones, flutes, and vocals. Right now a significant contributor towards the 21st hundred years Brooklyn innovative improvised music picture, Drury would also take part being a collaborator or sideman in several additional tasks, including violinist/violist Jason Kao Hwang’s Advantage quartet, showing up on Advantage (2006, Asian Improv), Tales Before Within (2008, Innova), and Crossroads Unseen (Euonymus, 2011). In 2012 he also made an appearance as an associate of Hwang’s expansive avant Asian fusion octet on Burning up Bridge, released by Innova. His collaborators on these along with other documented outings possess included Taylor Ho Bynum, Ken Filiano, Jack port Wright, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley, Denman Maroney, Wayne Ilgenfritz, Angelika Niescier, Bruce Eisenbeil, and Tom Blancarte. In Feb 2015 Drury released two friend albums, Content Service provider as well as the Drum, on his Soup & Audio Recordings imprint; the label name referrals a concert series curated from the drummer in his Brooklyn house, where he not merely generates the concerts, but additionally makes and delivers vegetarian-friendly soup. Articles Provider is really a recording by way of a Drury-led quartet offering longstanding bandmate Briggan Krauss on alto saxophone, Ingrid Laubrock on tenor saxophone, and Brandon Seabrook on electric guitar; The Drum discovers Drury conjuring up a bunch of unlikely noises from various expanded techniques and an individual flooring tom. Amidst each one of these executing, documenting, and soupmaking actions, Drury has continuing his dedication to music education for all those in need being a teaching musician using the Manhattan SONGS Project, which, because the organization’s internet site states, “empowers youngsters in underserved neighborhoods, using the executing arts to build up essential life abilities and achieve educational success.”