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Dean
Hodges is a Seattle based jazz drummer who's played and recorded
with an enormous array of great musicians in his nearly four
decades of drumming in Seattle. Dean is a graduate of the
Oscar Peterson’s Advanced School of Contemporary Music
in Toronto, Canada. He is much admired in the Jazz community
and is recognized for his tasteful manner and solid music
style. He has received the best drummer award by the Northwest Area Musicians Assoc. (NAMA) and was recently put into the Golden Ear Jazz Hall of Fame.
Seattle
drummer Dean Hodges, mastering recording sessions and live
performances which in the last 3 decades has performed 90%
of the time in the Seattle area, which includes appearances
at clubs such as Dimitriou’s Jazz
Alley and at Jazz Festivals including the Kool Jazz
Festival, The SS Norway Floating Jazz Festival, The Du Maurier
Jazz Festival, The Ottawa Jazz Festival, and Clearwater
Jazz Festival. He has shared the bandstand with countless visiting and resident musicians, including; The Bud
Shank Quartet, Joe Williams, Larry
Coryell,
George Cables, Monty Alexander and Ernestine
Anderson. His recording credits include over 35 CD’s
with musicians as Don
Lanphere, Bud
Shank, Larry
Coryell, Jay Clayton, Diane
Schuur, Ralph Towner, Gary
Peacock, Nancy King, Jack
Brownlow, and Dave Peck who's Cd won the "Earshot
jazz award" for best new release of the year.
Just to name a few.
Dean
has been a part of Bud
Shank’s, Jazz Port Townsend for the last 25 years
where he has taught and performed with not only the elite
of Jazz but the new and upcoming musicians that he has enjoyed
teaching.
Dean
has become one of the cities most highly respected musicians
and is thankful for all the opportunities he has had to
showcase his talent, here at home. |
