American jazz drummer
Jim Black
Black performing in 2007
Background information Born Seattle, Washington
Genres Jazz Occupation Musician Instrument Drums Labels Winter & Winter Website jimblack
Musical artist
Jim Black performing in Aarhus, Denmark Jim Black in Denmark 2018 Jim Black is an Americanjazz drummer who has performed withTim Berne andDave Douglas . He attendedBerklee College of Music .
His band AlasNoAxis includes Hilmar Jensson on electric guitar,Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clarinet, andSkúli Sverrisson on bass guitar. The music is in some ways closer topost-rock than jazz, concentrating on rhythmic shifts and ensembletexture rather than featured solos. Since 2000Winter & Winter has released several of the band's albums.
Pachora includes Black, Speed, Sverrisson, and Brad Shepik ontambura and electricsaz . This band plays music that is rhythmically diverse and inspired byBalkan rhythms.
Black participated as drummer 12 in theBoredoms 77 Boadrum performance on July 7, 2007 at theEmpire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York.
He is also one-third of the group BBC (Berne/Black/Cline) with alto saxophonist Berne andNels Cline ofWilco . The group released the albumThe Veil in 2011.[ 1]
With the Jim Black Trio [ edit ] Somatic (Winter & Winter, 2011)Actuality (Winter & Winter, 2014)The Constant (Intakt, 2016)Reckon (Intakt, 2020)[ edit ] Ain't No Saint (Intakt, 2023)Better You Don't (Intakt, 2025)WithHuman Feel
Human Feel (Human Use 1989)Scatter (GM, 1991)Welcome to Malpesta (New World 1994)Speak to It (Songlines, 1996)Galore (Skirl, 2007)Gold (Intakt, 2019)With BB&C
WithLaurie Anderson
Life on a String (Nonesuch, 2001)Live at Town Hall New York City September 19-20 2001 (Nonesuch, 2002)WithTim Berne
Lowlife: The Paris Concert JMT , 1995)Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert Memory Select: The Paris Concert Unwound Screwgun , 1996)Saturation Point Discretion Seconds Insomnia (Clean Feed, 2011)Attention Spam (Screwgun, 2021)5 (Screwgun, 2021)WithCarlos Bica
Azul (EmArcy, 1996)Twist (Enja, 1998)Look What They've Done to My Song (Enja, 2003)Believer (Enja, 2006)Things About (Clean Feed, 2011)More Than This (Clean Feed, 2016)Azul in Ljubljana (Clean Feed, 2018)WithDavid Binney
South (ACT, 2001)Balance (ACT, 2002)WithUri Caine
With Danilo Gallo Dark Dry Tears
Thinking Beats Where Mind Dies (Parco della Musica, 2017)Hide, Show Yourself! (Parco della Musica Records, 2020)A View through a slot (Clean Feed, 2021)WithDave Douglas
WithMark Dresser
Sedimental You (Clean Feed, 2016)Ain't Nothing But a Cyber Coup & You (Clean Feed, 2019)WithEllery Eskelin
Jazz Trash (Songlines, 1995)One Great Day... (hatOLOGY, 1997)Kulak, 29 & 30 (hatOLOGY, 1998)Five Other Pieces (+2) (hatOLOGY, 1999)Ramifications (hatOLOGY, 2000)The Secret Museum (hatOLOGY, 2000)12 (+1) Imaginary Views (hatOLOGY, 2002)Arcanum Moderne (hatOLOGY, 2003)Ten (hatOLOGY, 2004)Quiet Music (Prime Source, 2006)One Great Night...Live (hatOLOGY, 2009)WithChris Speed
Yeah No (Songlines, 1997)Deviantics (Songlines, 1999)Emit (Songlines, 2000)Swell Henry (Squealer, 2004)With Pachora
Pachora (Knitting Factory, 1997)Unn (Knitting Factory, 1998)Ast (Knitting Factory, 1999)Astereotypical (Winter & Winter, 2003)With Endangered Blood
Endangered Blood (Skirl, 2011)Work Your Magic (Skirl, 2013)Don't Freak Out (Skirl, 2018)WithPeter Evans
Ghosts (More Is More, 2011)Destination: Void (More Is More, 2014)Genesis (More Is More, 2016)WithSatoko Fujii
Looking Out of the Window (Ninety-One, 1997)Kitsune-bi (Tzadik, 1999)Toward to West (Enja, 2000)Junction (EWE, 2001)Bell the Cat! (Tokuma, 2002)Illusion Suite (Libra, 2004)Live in Japan 2004 (Natsat Music/PJL, 2005)When We Were There (PJL, 2006)Trace a River (Libra, 2008)WithHilmar Jensson
Dofinn (Jazzis, 1995)Tyft (Songlines, 2002)Ditty Blei (Songlines, 2004)WithDavid Liebman
Different but the Same (hatOLOGY, 2005)Renewal (hatOLOGY, 2008)Non Sequiturs (Hatology, 2011)WithBen Monder
Flux (Songlines, 1996)Dust Excavation WithJamie Saft
With others
Julian Arguelles ,Live in Dublin (Auand, 2006)Theo Bleckmann ,No Boat (Songlines, 1997)Stefano Bollani ,Sheik Yer Zappa (Decca, 2014)Boredoms ,77 Boa (Drum Commmons, 2008)Marty Cook ,Phases of the Moon (Tutu, 1994)Andrew D'Angelo ,Skadra Degis (Skirl, 2008)Kris Davis ,Save Your Breath Robert Dick ,Third Stone from the Sun (New World/CounterCurrents 1993)Peter Epstein ,Staring at the Sun (MA, 1997)John Escreet ,Sabotage and Celebration (Whirlwind, 2013)Michael Formanek ,Nature of the Beast (Enja, 1997)Lee Konitz ,Jugendstil II (ESP Disk, 2010)Donny McCaslin ,Seen from Above (Arabesque, 2000)Raz Mesinai ,Unit of Resistance (ROIR 2007)Anais Mitchell ,Hadestown (Righteous Babe, 2010)Ikue Mori ,Obelisk (Tzadik, 2017)Hank Roberts ,Green Ned Rothenberg ,Real and Imagined Time (Moers Music, 1995)Ed Schuller ,The Force (Tutu, 1996)Assif Tsahar ,Jam (Hopscotch, 2003)Cuong Vu ,Bound (OmniTone, 2000)John Zorn ,Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik, 2003)
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
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