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Colin Hinton

Colin Hinton is an active member of Brooklyn’s creative music community. A drummer, percussionist, and composer, his music draws from the jazz and free music traditions of Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, and Muhal Richard Abrams, as well as 20th century classical composers Bartók, Ligeti, Feldman, and Grisey.

He has performed in the US, Canada, Central and South America, and Asia, and has had his compositions performed in the US, Italy, and Canada. An active educator in the NYC area, Colin has taught at the City College of New York, numerous music academies, and has many private students.

Hinton studied drums with Ed Soph, Tyshawn Sorey, Dan Weiss, Ralph Peterson, and Ari Hoenig, and composition with Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, and Eric Wubbels. He studied at the University of North Texas and City College of New York, completing a BFA in Jazz Performance and an MA in Music Performance.

Colin has performed with Ingrid Laubrock, Okkyung Lee, Tyshawn Sorey, Jacob Sacks, Miles Okazaki, Michaël Attias, Jesse Zubot, and Anna Webber. He performed on Jake Hanlon’s 2012 CD release “Follow”, which was nominated for ECMA Jazz Recording of the Year. Hinton currently leads contemporary classical/avant jazz quintet Facehugger, free-jazz/post-punk hybrid Glassbath (album out February 20, 2018), and a free-improvisation group featuring Ingrid Laubrock.

Awards

Attended Banff International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music (2017) Attended Cortona New Music Session as a Composer (2017) Was selected for Banff Musicians in Residency (2017) BFA in Jazz Performance - City College of New York (2015) MA in Music Performance (Emphasis in Theory) - City College of New York (2017)


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Album Review

Ocelot: Ocelot

Read "Ocelot" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Ocelot is a trio of saxophonist Yuma Uesaka, pianist Cat Toren and drummer Colin Hinton that breaks away from the usual jazz sensibilities, playing music that unwinds laterally and slowly. The individual tracks on their CD may exist in a constant state of quiet contemplation or work up to a grand climax but they all give off a sense of close listening and communication between the three musicians. Several of the tracks stay quiet but intense for most ...

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Stephen Gauci / Santiago Leibson / Shawn Lovato / Colin Hinton: Live at Scholes Street Studio

Read "Live at Scholes Street Studio" reviewed by John Sharpe


When tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci was offered a set at Brooklyn's Scholes Street Studio performance space in December 2019 he leapt at the chance. At short notice he pulled together three former duet partners in the classic jazz quartet formation, though they had never previously performed as a single unit. So this is both the group's first recording and its first appearance. Safe to say, it probably won't be the last. Argentinian pianist Santiago Leibson gives the ...

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Colin Hinton: Simulacra

Read "Simulacra" reviewed by John Sharpe


It would have been a shame if drummer and composer Colin Hinton's Simulacra, released in 2019, fell through the cracks. On this, his second leadership outing in the wake of Glassbath (Snake And Cornelia, 2018), he captains a crew of current and former Brooklyn-based talent in a mysterious but satisfying set. Hinton merges compositional elements with unfurling interplay which sounds guided in its cohesion, but without any evidence of the joins. As a result the six cuts evolve naturally, but ...

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Colin Hinton: Glassbath

Read "Glassbath" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Brooklyn-based drummer / composer / educator, Colin Hinton's debut release presents an aggregation of hip, punk jazz via guitarist Edward Gavitt's acerbic, distortion-tinged phrasings and a variety of noise-shaping processes and pulsating, off-centered dialogues with tenor saxophonist Peyton Pleninger. The press release alludes to semblances of acclaimed drummer Jim Black's Alas No Axis band along with similarities to other cutting-edge artists. Complete with Hinton's energetic polyrhythmic grooves, the quartet executes bluesy motifs that transform into torrid fast-paced jazz-rock sprees and ...

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Primary Instrument

Drums

Location

New York City

Willing to teach

Beginner to advanced

Credentials/Background

I am available for private lessons and group classes. I teach out of my apartment but can be available to travel. I have over a decade of experience teaching in situations as diverse as private lessons at music academies, lectures at colleges, and teaching professional musicians. What some of my students have to say: "Colin is fantastic! He is very generous with his extensive knowledge about drumming and music in general, as well as clear, punctual, and patient

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Ocelot

577 Records
2021

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Simulacra

Panoramic
2020

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Live at Scholes...

Gaucimusic
2020

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Glassbath

Snake and Cornelia
2018

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Follow

Armored Records
2008

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