Fri 12/27 @ 8:30PM
As always around the holidays, Nighttown features its “Home for the Holidays” star-studded roster of musical Clevelanders and ex-Clevelanders.
There are few more star-studded than jazz/global music drummer-percussionist Jamey Haddad whose long career took him from his native Cleveland to New York and back again. Haddad developed his interest in percussion instruments from around the world as a child growing up in Cleveland. Then he left NE Ohio behind for around 30 years, first to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston (where he later became a professor), then to move to New York to built a career that has included more than two decades as a member of Paul Simon’s touring band and playing on hundreds of albums.
His hometown called him back in the early ’00s, when he became a professor at Oberlin, teaching percussion and improvisation. And he’s continued to stretch his musical muscles, creating his own new percussion instruments (he claims to have more than 1,000!).
When he performs at Nighttown, he’ll be joined by a lineup of local all-stars: bassist Kip Reed, pianist Leo Blanco and sax player Chris Coles. Tickets are $25.