Dan Weiss

New York-based drummer and percussionist Dan Weiss’ sound is definitely instantly recognizable whenever he takes on. His style can be comprised of similar parts contemporary jazz and East Indian rhythms. Weiss was raised having a guitar-playing dad and was subjected to music in early stages. He started playing in his teenagers when he 1st noticed recordings by Led Zeppelin — he matters John Bonham as his initial impact, and Led Zeppelin IV because the record that confident him to become drummer. Immediately after, he became a Hurry fan along with a metalhead. His 1st 14 years of playing had been dominated by rock and roll & roll. It had been his drum instructor, Jeff Krause, who released him to jazz via information by Utmost Roach & Clifford Dark brown, and Count number Basie. Weiss transformed course almost instantly. Weiss went to the Manhattan College of Music and received a B.A. in Jazz Percussion & Classical Structure; he later researched tabla with Samir Chatterjee, drum arranged research with John Riley, structure use David Noon, and framework drums with Jamey Haddad. Weiss offers four working rings: Dan Weiss Trio (w/Thomas Morgan and Jacob Sacks), the Dan Weiss/Kilometers Okazaki Duo, the Dan Weiss/Ari Hoenig Duo, along with a co-billed collaborative task with Lorenzo Feliciati, Joel Harrison, Roy Powell, and Cuong Vu. Weiss’ 1st record was Tintal Drum Established Single on Chhandayan Information in 2005 (that same calendar year he added to David Binney’s Bastion of Sanity on Criss Combination). Today Yes When with the Dan Weiss Trio was on Toneofapitch in 2006, as was his second time as an associate of Binney’s music group, Metropolitan areas and Desire. Reflection, documented with Okazaki, also made an appearance in 2006. Weiss’ Tabla Single made an appearance on Chhandayan in 2007. He guested on rock-band Bloody Panda’s Pheromone, and was area of the Jackson Harrison Trio for The Property Tides, released on Hatology that calendar year. He premiered his structure Trio for Piano, Violin and Percussion in Nova Scotia in 2008, and documented his initial time with Joel Harrison; entitled The Steering wheel, it had been released on Innova. In ’09 2009, Weiss documented Apti as an associate of Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition. This year 2010, his second huge structure, Layas: For Piano, Drums and Orchestras, was executed by Ohad Talmor and premiered in Portugal. His trio released Timshel on Sunnyside. Weiss can be an trainer. He provides personal education for tabla and drum package, and it is a faculty member at both New College of Music as well as the Manhattan College of Music. His initial recorded collaboration along with his brand-new music group with Feliciati, Joel Harrison, Powell, and Cuong Vu, is normally entitled Holy Abyss. It had been released in past due January of 2012 by Cuneiform Information.