Abbey Rader
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| Background information | |
| Born |
October 14, 1943 New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Genres | Avant-garde jazz, free jazz, spiritual |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Drums |
| Years active | 1961–present |
| Labels | Abray |
| Website | www |
Abbey Rader (October 14, 1943) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his childhood and his early career, he worked in the New York City, where the loft jazz,bebop, and free jazz movement formed his musical expressions. He later played and taught across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, and then returned to North America to create music that combines his free jazz, martial arts, and Buddhist spiritual roots. He has recorded over 25 albums as a leader/composer thus far in his career, and has worked with Dave Liebman, John Handy, Billy Bang, Dr. L. Subramaniam, and Mal Waldron in a career spanning over four decades.
Rader's album, First Gathering was named one of the "Best of 2015". It's the first album from his West Coast Quartet with Peter Kuhn, Kyle Motl and Drew Ceccato. His album, Reunion, was released on July 23, 2016 and is a recording of his live October 31, 2012 performance at PAX: Performing Arts Exchange in Miami, FL. This was a fully improvised performance including Kidd Jordan, John McMinn, Kyle Motl, and Noah Brandmark.The Message, was released in August 2014 and is a recording of his live January 2014 radio performance on Evenin' Jazz with the Real Tracy Fields at WLRN Miami.The Message was named one of the "Best of 2014" by Avant Music News. Prior to this, his quartet featuring John McMinn, Noah Brandmark and Kyle Motl released their second recording, Reach for the Skies a runner-up for Album of Year in 2013. Their first effort, Live at PAX, was named one of the "Best of 2012". In 1999, Abbey Rader's Ballistics of Yin and Yang, was awarded as one of the year's best jazz albums, "providing a glimmer of hope that the art form will live on into the next millennium".
Abbey Rader was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and raised in the Bronx where he moved when he was six months old. His introduction to drumming began early, as his father was a band leader and drummer. Rader started playing traditional jazz gigs in the early 1960s, typically piano/bass/drum or saxophone/organ/drum trios, which exposed him to a variety of musicians that subtly influenced his style.
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