Born: July 21, 1956 Primary Instrument: Drums
for a biography of Franklin Kiermyer, please visit: http://mobilitymusic.com
“His writing is fiercely primal and his drumming ferocious, unbridled...” Fred Bouchard / JAZZIZ
“Passion, power and pride...An unstinting drive, a bracing and uplifting incantory quality.” Gene Kalbacher / CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT
“Absolutely amazing stuff!” Michael Cuscuna / BLUENOTE - IMPULSE - VERVE - MOSAIC
“...a galvanizing player and highly original composer... superb intuition and intelligence.” Parry Gettelman / ORLANDO SENTINEL
“...a striking new voice of the jazz vanguard...a daring composer...” Sam Prestianni/ SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY
“...he is a polyrhythmic whirlwind...this is the real thing... marvelous, powerfully affirmative music.” Bill Tilland / OPTION
“...enough to make you believe that music can still be frightening as well as sacred.” John Szwed / THE VILLAGE VOICE
“Kiermyer plays (and composes) with an almost evangelical belief in jazz as a form of pure inspiration.” David Hajdu / ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“Blessed with the ecstatic quality of Kiermyer's free-bop attack... drummer Franklin Kiermyer is that rare 90's jazzman.” David Fricke / ROLLING STONE
“Kiermyer is a give-no-quarter kind of drummer for whom the word intense would be too mild. He Burns.” Karl Stark / THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
“...volatile drumming, full of tornado cycles and cascade shimmers.” John Diliberto / CD REVIEW
“...total commitment by an artist who is searching and growing in a way not often heard in jazz in the last 30 years.” S.D. Feeney / FACE MAGAZINE
“Kiermyer supercharges spiritual modality...I predict it won't be long before he's a headliner.” Herb Boyd / DOWN BEAT
“...I haven't heard anyone drum with so much brazenly savage virtuositysince Elvin Jones pounded a hole through the firmament on John Coltrane's Sun Ship.” Tim Powis / EYE MAGAZINE
“Kiermyer sounds like Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali wrapped up into a furious, thunderous package; he must be one of the most exciting and intense drummers around.” Linton Chiswick / THE WIRE
“...a jazz master at work...as forceful as a thunderstorm...a terrific band...” Stephen Israel / TIMES HERALD RECORD
“a great album...extraordinary...introduces a new player to the jazz elite.” Miguel Rocha / CAMPUS ACCESS
“An explosive player with incredible endurance...remarkably intense.” the editors / DRUM!
“such beauty and energy, I kept turning the volume knob higher and higher.” Mark Corroto / SOS JAZZ
“Kiermyer is a drummer who follows his own muse, creating a sound of yearning and revelation...derived from an intensely personal sensibility.” Sid Gribetz / JAZZ TIMES
“...a journey in the Sun Ship to heights of spiritual experience through music... captures that mystical ecstasy with magnificent aplomb” the editors / JAZZIZ
“...fiery, emotional spirituals...” Dick Bogle / PORTLAND NEWS
“Imagine if drummer Elvin Jones and Pianist McCoy Tyner had not left the John Coltrane Quartet in early 1966 and had spent another year with the great saxophonist; it might have sounded something like this.” Scott Yanow / L.A. JAZZ SCENE
“In my more irrational moments I've convinced myself that when God invented jazz he was hoping it might wind up sounding something like this.” Tim Powis / EYE MAGAZINE
“...commanding presence...Franklin Kiermyer is driven.” Matt Galloway / NOW MAGAZINE
“One of the most emotionally charged recordings I've heard in years... packs such a punch it's just a bit difficult to talk about with mere words...you won't find anything better than this date.” Chris Hovan / JAZZ & BLUES REPORT
“Fiery...it explodes and takes you for a ride. The playing is superb.” Bob Margolis / MTV - VH1.COM
“The avant quarters of the jazz world are all abuzz over drummer Franklin Kiermyer, and it's a good thing.” K. Leander Williams / DOWN BEAT
“...confident, full-throttle drumming. Even the most secular ears should find Kiermyer compelling.” Brent Grulke / OPTION
“This is a monumental album...Franklin Kiermyer's Solomon's Daughter” Greg Tate / VIBE
“Drummer Franklin Kiermyer supplies Pharoah Sanders with some of the tenor man's most memorable sideman dates of his entire career while also providing a forum for Sanders' best playing in seemingly decades of recordings.” L. Donohue-Greene / ONE FINAL NOTE
“...a work of unquestionable integrity...” Chris Kelsey / JAZZ NOW
“The most excitingly dynamic debut by a young jazz voice I've heard in recent years.” Norman Weinstein / DISC RESPECT (The Record Exchange)
“...pushing each other past the red-line uprising heights of ecstasy. Ecstasy is the operative word.” Dave Luhrssen / THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
“...Visionary...(Kiermyer has) landed himself in the land of jazz titans.” James Lien / CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT
