Tom Rainey
Rainey performing Faux Faux at The Cinema, West Philadelphia, 30 July 2006
Background information
Born	(1957-09-17)September 17, 1957 (age 68) Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Genres	Avant-garde jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Drums
Years active	1980s – present
Labels	Screwgun,Clean Feed,Marge

Tom Rainey (born September 17, 1957) is an American jazz drummer.

After attendingBerklee College of Music he moved to New York in 1979.^[1] He has played withTim Berne,^[2]Nels Cline,Drew Gress,Mark Helias,Fred Hersch,Tony Malaby,Simon Nabatov,Tom Varner, andKenny Werner.

Rainey worked with Berne in the 1990s and 2000s in the bands Big Satan, Hard Cell, Paraphrase, and Science Friction. After thirty years as a sideman, he released his first album,Pool School (Clean Feed, 2010) in a trio with guitaristMary Halvorson and his wife, saxophonistIngrid Laubrock.^[3][4]

• Pool School (Clean Feed, 2010)
• Camino Cielo Echo (Intakt, 2012)
• Obbligato (Intakt, 2014)
• Hotel Grief (Intakt, 2015)
• Float Upstream (Intakt, 2017)
• Combobulated (Intakt, 2019)
• Untucked In Hannover (Intakt, 2021)

WithSimon Nabatov &Nils Wogram

• Nawora (Leo, 2012)

WithRalph Alessi,Kris Davis &Ingrid Laubrock

• LARK (Skirl, 2013)

WithIngrid Laubrock

• And Other Desert Towns (Relative Pitch, 2014)
• Buoyancy (Relative Pitch, 2016)
• Utter (Relative Pitch, 2018)
• Counterfeit Mars (Relative Pitch, 2022)
• Brink (Intakt, 2024)

With Peter Ehwald & Stefan Schultze

• Public Radio (Jazzwerkstatt, 2025)

WithRay Anderson

• Big Band Record (Gramavision, 1994) with theGeorge Gruntz Concert Jazz Band

WithTim Berne

• Visitation Rites (Screwgun), 1997)
• Big Satan (Winter & Winter, 1997)
• Please Advise (Screwgun, 1999)
• The Shell Game (Thirsty Ear, 2001)
• Science Friction (Screwgun, 2002)
• The Sublime And (Thirsty Ear, 2003)
• Souls Saved Hear (Thirsty Ear, 2004)
• Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live (Screwgun, 2004)
• Feign (Screwgun, 2005)
• Pre-Emptive Denial (Screwgun, 2005)
• Livein Cognito (Screwgun, 2006)
• Yikes Too (Out of Your Head/Screwgun, 2025)

WithNels Cline

• Currents, Constellations (Blue Note, 2018)

WithKris Davis

• Good Citizen (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2010)
• Capricorn Climber (Clean Feed, 2013)
• Waiting for You to Grow (Clean Feed, 2014)

WithMark Feldman

• What Exit (ECM, 2006)

WithRonan Guilfoyle

• Hands (Portmanteau, 2015)

WithIngrid Laubrock

• Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008)
• Anti-House (Intakt, 2010)
• The Madness of Crowds (Intakt, 2011)
• Strong Place (Intakt, 2013)
• Zurich Concert (Intakt, 2014)
• Roulette of the Cradle (Intakt, 2015)
• Ubatuba (Firehouse 12, 2015)

WithMyra Melford

• The October Revolution (Evidence, 1996) featured on one track

WithLiam Noble

• Romance Among the Fishes (Basho, 2004)

WithSamo Salamon

• Two Hours (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2006)
• Almost Almond (Sanje, 2011)
• Duality (Samo Records, 2012)

WithDavid Torn

• Prezens (ECM, 2005)

WithTom Varner

• The Mystery of Compassion (Soul Note, 1992)
• Martian Heartache (Soul Note, 1996)

WithRoseanna Vitro

• Reaching for the Moon (Chase Music Group, 1991)
• Softly (Concord Jazz, 1993)

WithJane Ira Bloom

• Modern Drama (Columbia, 1987)
• Slalom (Columbia, 1988)

• Allaboutjazz Tom Rainey interview
• Tom Rainey discography atDiscogs
• Tom Rainey atAllMusic
• Tom Rainey atMusicBrainz

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• American jazz drummers
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