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Ray Drummond (born November 23, 1946 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is a jazz bassist and teacher. He also has an MBA from Stanford University, hence his linkage to the Stanford Jazz Workshop. He can be heard on hundreds of albums and co-leads The Drummonds with Renee Rosnes and (not related) Billy Drummond.[1]

Videography[]

Biography[]

Drummond has been a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey since 1980 with his wife, Susan, and his daughter, Maya.[2]

Discography[]

As leader[]

As sideman[]

With Art Farmer

  • Mirage (Soul Note, 1982)

With Tom Harrell

  • Stories

With Toshiko Akiyoshi

  • Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream (Nippon Crown, 1990)

With Freddie Hubbard

  • The Eternal Triangle (Blue Note, 1987) with Woody Shaw
  • Feel the Wind (Timeless, 1988) with Art Blakey

With Bobby Hutcherson

  • Bobby Hutcherson Live at Montreux (Blue Note, 1973)
  • Cirrus (Blue Note, 1974)

With the Jazztet

  • Moment to Moment (Soul Note, 1983)

With David Murray

  • I Want to Talk About You (Black Saint, 1986)
  • Ming's Samba (Portrait, 1988)
  • Fast Life (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
  • Ballads for Bass Clarinet (DIW, 1991)
  • Saxmen (Red Baron, 1993)
  • Jazzosaurus Rex (Red Baron , 1993)
  • Creole (Justin Time, 1997)
  • Like a Kiss that Never Ends (Justin Time, 2000)
  • Sacred Ground (Justin Time, 2006)

With Horace Silver

  • Music to Ease Your Disease (Silverto, 1988)

With Bob Thiele Collective

  • Lion Hearted (1993)

With Michael White

  • Spirit Dance (Impulse!, 1971)
  • Pneuma (Impulse!, 1972)

With John Zorn

  • Voodoo (Black Saint, 1985)

References[]

  1. All Music
  2. Adler, David R. "Ray Drummond", Jazz Times, April 2004. Accessed September 21, 2011. "As for Drummond's nonvirtual lair, it's in Teaneck, N.J.-a modest house he's inhabited for 23 years with his wife, Susan, and his daughter, Maya, now 24. (That is Maya, age nine or so, on the cover of Drummond's Maya's Dance album.)"

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