Tue 5/9 @ 7PM
Jazz/global music drummer/percussionist Jamey Haddad became interested in percussion instruments from around the world as a child growing up in Cleveland. He left the area to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston (where he later became a professor) and then settled in 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 by an array of musicians in a variety of genres, from Yo-Yo Ma to Sting to fellow Cleveland native Joe Lovano (who is in town this week performing with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra.)
Haddad moved back to town in the early ’00s to join the faculty at Oberlin Conservatory, while continuing his international career as well as collaborating with some of this area’s world-class jazz musicians.
This week two of those — sax player Bobby Selvaggio and bassist Kip Reed — will join him at the BOP STOP as he showcases a former Oberlin Conservatory student who springboarded his education there to a thriving musical career pianist Sullivan Fortner (class of ’08).
The New Orleans native has released several records as a band leader, and collaborated with musicians such as Wynton Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gary Bartz, Nicholas Peyton, the late Roy Hargrove (whom he played with from 2010-2017) and many more. He also played on Paul Simon’s 2018 album In the Blue Light (as did both Haddad and Lovano.)
Catch the concert live or watch it streaming on the BOP STOP’s Facebook page.
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