Ray Drummond
American jazz musician
Drummond at the 2013 Detroit Jazz Festival
Ray Drummond (born November 23, 1946, in Brookline, Massachusetts ) is an American 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]
Drummond has been a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey , since 1980 with his wife, Susan, and his daughter, Maya.[ 2]
He is the elder brother of David Drummond , who served as senior vice president, corporate development and chief legal officer of Google Inc., until his retirement in 2020.
Ray Drummond at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society , Half Moon Bay, California, July 8, 2017
Discography
As sideman
With Toshiko Akiyoshi
With Chris Anderson
With Bill Barron
With Kenny Barron
With Thomas Chapin
With Arnett Cobb
With George Coleman
With Ted Curson
With Billy Drummond
With Teddy Edwards
With Art Farmer
With the Art Farmer /Benny Golson Jazztet
With Ricky Ford
With Curtis Fuller
With Benny Golson
With Johnny Griffin
With Slide Hampton
With Craig Handy
With Tom Harrell
Stories (Contemporary, 1988)
With John Hicks
With Buck Hill
With Freddie Hubbard
With Bobby Hutcherson
With the Jazztet
With Randy Johnston
With Etta Jones
With Lee Konitz
With Peter Leitch
With Abbey Lincoln
With Wynton Marsalis
With Ronnie Mathews
With Charles McPherson
With Grachan Moncur III
With Frank Morgan
With Idris Muhammad
With David Murray
With Houston Person
Person-ified (HighNote, 1997)
My Romance (HighNote, 1998)
Soft Lights (HighNote, 1999)
Blue Velvet (HighNote, 2001)
Thinking of You (HighNote, 2007)
Mellow (HighNote, 2009)
Moment to Moment (HighNote, 2010)
So Nice (HighNote, 2011)
Naturally (HighNote, 2012)
Nice 'n' Easy (HighNote, 2013)
The Melody Lingers On (HighNote, 2014)
Something Personal (HighNote, 2015)
With Ben Riley
With Pharoah Sanders
With Woody Shaw
With Horace Silver
With James Spaulding
With Horace Tapscott
With Bob Thiele Collective
With Jack Walrath
With Michael White
With John Zorn
References
^ All Music
^ Adler, David R. "Ray Drummond" Archived 2016-01-15 at the Wayback Machine , 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.)"
^ Jazzdisco: Ray Drummond catalog - album index , accessed May 11, 2018
External links
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Albums
International National Academics Artists Other