Acclaimed by Downbeat as “one of the hippest bandleaders now at work,” Billy Drummond’s powerful and highly musical playing has been a dream come true for countless bandleaders over the past four decades, including Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, J J Johnson and Sonny Rollins.

Heralded by the New York Times as a purveyor of “fertile, exciting music,” he appears on over 350 albums as a sideman and four as a leader, including his latest, Valse Sinistre (Cellar Live), a Downbeat Best Album of the Year, a Jazzwise Editor’s Choice, and # 3 on JazzTimes Top Albums of 2022. Also a highly respected educator he is professor of jazz drums at Juilliard and NYU in New York.