Featured Artist:
Ndugu Chancelor, Drums/Percussion
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Born is Shreveport, Louisiana, Ndugu
attended Locke High School in Los Angeles where, at the
age of thirteen, he began to play the drums. During his
High School years, he worked with Willie Bobo and Harold
Johnson Sextet. Upon graduation, Ndugu studied music education
at California State University, Dominguez Hills. While
in college he performed with the Gerald Wilson Big Band,
Herbie Hancock and High Masakela. At age nineteen Ndugu
had performed and recorded with such greats as Miles Davis,
Freedie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Eddie Harris, Harold Land
and Bobby Hutcherson. Ndugu has worked on several Grammy
nominated albums and has numerous production and co- production
credits.
Ndugu Chancler is known not only as a
world-class drummer and percussionist, but also a producer,
composer, clinician and teacher. A three-time Grammy nominee,
he has to his credit an extensive list of performances,
recordings, original compositions and productions. As
a studio musician, he has performed and recorded with
Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, George Duke, Patrice Rushen,
Hubert Laws, The Crusaders, Frank Sinatra, Weather Report,
Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, Thelonious Monk and John
Lee Hooker. He was the drummer on the biggest selling
pop album by Michael Jackson, Thriller, providing the
beat on “Billie Jean.” As a producer and songwriter,
he has written hits for The Dazz Band and George Duke,
and produced for Flora Purim, Bill Summers, Toki and his
own solo recordings. He has co-produced recordings for
Santana, The Crusaders, George Duke, Tina Turner, Joe
Sample, Wilton Felder and The Meeting, the group he co-leads
with Patrice Rushen and Ernie Watts.
As a clinician, Mr. Chancler has led
extensive clinic tours for Yamaha, Toca, Paiste, Remo
and Shure. In addition to his faculty position in the
jazz studies department at the Thornton School, he is
on staff at the United States Percussion Camp at Eastern
Illinois University, the Stanford University Jazz Workshop,
Jazz America and the Thelonious Monk Foundation.
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