Tom Rainey | |
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 Rainey performing Faux Faux at The Cinema, West Philadelphia, 30 July 2006 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1957 Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Avant-garde jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Drums |
| Years active | 1980s – present |
| Labels | Screwgun, Clean Feed, Marge |
Tom Rainey (born 1957) is an American jazz drummer.
After attending Berklee College of Music he moved to New York in 1979. [1] He has played with Tim Berne, [2] Nels Cline, Drew Gress, Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Tony Malaby, Simon Nabatov, Tom Varner, and Kenny 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 guitarist Mary Halvorson and his wife, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock. [3] [4]
With Simon Nabatov & Nils Wogram
With Ralph Alessi, Kris Davis & Ingrid Laubrock
With Ingrid Laubrock
With Ray Anderson
With Tim Berne
With Nels Cline
With Kris Davis
With Mark Feldman
With Ronan Guilfoyle
With Ingrid Laubrock
With Myra Melford
With Liam Noble
With Samo Salamon
With David Torn
With Tom Varner
With Roseanna Vitro
With Jane Ira Bloom
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The Sublime And is a live double album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Science Friction which was recorded in Switzerland in 2003 and originally released on the Thirsty Ear label. The album was rereleased in 2007 along with Berne's 2002 Science Friction album as part of the Screwgun Records compilation Mind Over Friction.
Camino Cielo Echo is the second album by American jazz drummer Tom Rainey, which was recorded in 2011 and released by Intakt Records. The record features the same trio as his debut album Pool School, with saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and guitarist Mary Halvorson.
Sleepthief is the eponymous debut album by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's free improvisation trio with British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey. It was recorded in 2007 and released on the Swiss Intakt label. Laubrock and Noble played together since 2005 and recorded the duo Let's Call This.... While Rainey was visiting the UK they decided to get together and Sleepthief was born.
Anti-House is the eponymous debut album by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's band with guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist John Hébert, drummer Tom Rainey and pianist Kris Davis, credited as a guest on about half the pieces. It was recorded in 2010 and released on the Swiss Intakt label. In the summer of 2008 Laubrock relocated from London to New York, where she participated in the collective trio Paradoxical Frog, but this was her first recording as leader in the U.S.
Strong Place is the second album by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House, a quintet with guitarist Mary Halvorson, pianist Kris Davis, bassist John Hébert and drummer Tom Rainey. It was recorded in 2012 and released on the Swiss Intakt label.
Roulette of the Cradle is an album by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, which was recorded in 2014 and released on the Swiss Intakt label. It was the third recording by her Anti-House quintet, the first band that she formed on her relocation to New York with guitarist Mary Halvorson, pianist Kris Davis, bassist John Hébert and drummer Tom Rainey. They are joined by clarinetist Oscar Noriega on two tracks.
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