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Tina Raymond

Tina Raymond is a drummer based in Los Angeles, CA. Gary Fukushima writes in LA Weekly, “Musicians love her lithe brush and cymbal work, supported by an iron core of time and groove." A unique voice in the Los Angeles contemporary improvised music scene, Raymond blends traditional jazz vocabulary with African polyrhythm and classical percussion technique. She performs, adjudicates, and presents workshops world wide at venues, festivals, and conventions; and has shared the stage with many jazz luminaries including Bobby Bradford, Bennie Maupin, Emil Richards, Art Lande, and Vinny Golia. She can be heard on several original albums including Cathlene Pineda’s “A Weeks Time" (Orenda), Jon Armstrong’s “Burnt Hibiscus" (Orenda), The Harold Trio (Edgetone), and will be releasing a trio record with Putter Smith and Art Lande in Spring 2017 entitled “Left Right Left". Raymond studied classical percussion at the University of Cincinnati with the members of Percussion Group Cincinnati, African ewe music at California Institute of the Arts with Ghanaian chief Alfred Ladzekpo, and jazz drum set with Joe LaBarbera, Jeff Hamilton, and John Von Ohlen. She is currently a full-time professor of music at Los Angeles City College in Hollywood, CA and is endorsed by Sabian, Regal Tip, and Remo.

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Radio & Podcasts

Tina Raymond, Geri Allen, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Church Chords, Arch & More

Read "Tina Raymond, Geri Allen, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Church Chords, Arch & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


A mysterious new producer, Church Chords; the unearthing of a gem; jazz divinations; blood diamonds and bloody belly comb jellies... here for you a playlist that reads like a thriller story, and is as gripping as one.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Billy Valentine “We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue [Strings Version]" We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue (Strings Version)--Single (Flying Dutchman) 0:16 Host ...

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Liner Notes

Rachel Eckroth: Humanoid

Read "Rachel Eckroth: Humanoid" reviewed by Sharonne Cohen


"Humanoid is a departure for me," Rachel Eckroth said when we spoke about her new piano quartet album, recorded at Sam First jazz club in Los Angeles on October 28 and 29, 2022. Taking her first piano lesson at the age of five, this accomplished, multifaceted musician has honed her craft over the four decades since, becoming not only a gifted and versatile pianist and keyboardist, but a vocalist and songwriter. Engaged in creative projects spanning jazz, indie and pop, ...

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Album Review

Tina Raymond: Divinations

Read "Divinations" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Drummer Tina Raymond possesses a buoyant momentum and contemporary polyrhythmic sense of swing which has a listener skidding along one moment and bopping down the next. She owns a rock 'n roll snap in her wrists which keeps the energy high-spirited all the way. Raymond, whose wanderlust CV includes her first album as a leader--Left Right Left (Orenad, 2017)--plus working with wily pianist and composer Rachel Eckroth--Humanoid (Sam First, 2023)--and as a founding member of the equally fiery ...

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Album Review

Rachel Eckroth: Humanoid

Read "Humanoid" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Pianist Rachel Eckroth may use wellness or New agey terms such as polymath or bold vision to describe her approach to her considerable art, but she gets down to Earth for real and very quickly on Humanoid, her first all-acoustic recording. Recorded live at Sam's First in Los Angeles, Eckroth's very active imagination spearheads a group, including bassist and all round jazz entrepreneur Billy Mohler, drummer Tina Raymond--whose uncanny sense for everything a drummer can do, can be ...

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Album Review

Alex Sadnik: Flight

Read "Flight" reviewed by Jeff Schwartz


What is new to say through Charlie Parker's music? On Flight Alex Sadnik looks for answers with two different bands. On the first side of the LP, his alto fronts a quintet with violin, pedal steel guitar, bass,and drums, but this is not a Bob Wills or Bill Frisell pastiche. The opening track, “Donna Lee," stretches and compresses Parker's speedy contrafact of “Indiana" into a medium waltz. Both Sadnik's alto tone and the metric liberties taken with ...

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Esthesis Quartet: Time Zones

Read "Time Zones" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


The four members of Esthesis Quartet, flutist Elsa Nilsson, pianist Dawn Clement, bassist Emma Dayhuff and drummer Tina Raymond, each live in different parts of the United States, but, as this album shows, when they get together their playing has an easy and natural rapport. With flute as a lead instrument, the group sometimes have the cooler sound associated with West Coast jazz as on the breezy “Hollywood" and the gentle “First Light." However, over the course of ...

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A Focus On Esthesis Quartet

Read "A Focus On Esthesis Quartet" reviewed by Bob Osborne


On this show the exciting group of four musicians collectively known as Esthesis Quartet. They are Elsa Nilsson (flute), Dawn Clement (piano & vocal), Emma Dayhuff (bass), and Tina Raymond (drums). We include music from their first two releases, and also a look at side projects from band members. This selection highlights an exceptional group who push the musical envelope to create an impressive new sound.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Esthesis Quartet “Blue Light" from Time Zones (ears&eyes) 00:54 ...

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Recording

Tina Raymond CD Release Celebration For "Left Right Left," Thursday, April 6th At The Blue Whale, Los Angeles

Tina Raymond CD Release Celebration For "Left Right Left," Thursday, April 6th At The Blue Whale, Los Angeles

Source: Mouthpiece Music

One of the most in-demand jazz drummers in Los Angeles, Tina Raymond, unites with two legendary musicians, pianist Art Lande and bassist Putter Smith on her debut CD, Left Right Left (Orenda Records). A politically inspired album, Left Right Left features anti-war anthems, union songs, and other sociopolitical works from America's history, re-imagined through modern jazz. The CD will be available April 7th on Orenda Records and at the CD release celebration on Thursday, April 6th at 9pm (PDT) at ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Flight

Big Ego
2024

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Divinations

Self Produced
2024

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Time Zones

ears&eyes Records
2023

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Humanoid

Sam First Records
2023

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Esthesis Quartet

Orenda Records
2022

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Stealin' Home: Jackie...

Cryptogramophone
2022

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Strange Meeting

From: Humanoid
By Tina Raymond

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