Dennis Mackrel
Drummer Dennis Mackrel has always been highly regarded by working musicians, yet undervalued by the jazz community as a whole. Mackrel is probably best known as the drummer hand-picked by Mel Lewis in 1990 to take over duties in the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra when Lewis was unable to continue. This was not actually the first time he held an important chair in a high-profile band; in 1983, at 21 years of age, Mackrel joined the Count Basie Orchestra, a position which he held until 1987.
Mackrel has spent time recording and traveling with many large and small orchestras, including the Very Big Carla Bley Band, Slide Hampton & the Jazz Masters, the Carnegie Hall Classic Jazz Orchestra, the Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Grover Mitchell & His Orchestra, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and the American Jazz Orchestra. In 1994, Mackrel appeared on Maria Schneider's Grammy Award-winning recording Evanescence.
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Diskografie
3 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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Souvenir
Bill Charlap Trio, Scott Colley, Dennis Mackrel
Jazz - Erschienen bei Criss Cross Jazz am 08.12.1995
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Hot House - Thilo Meets Mackrel
Modern Jazz - Erschienen bei Stunt - Sundance Records am 01.12.2008
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Nice Noise Sweet Silence (feat. Dennis Mackrel & Lars Møller)
Hans Esbjerg, Jens Jefsen Quartet
Jazz - Erschienen bei Music Mecca am 19.03.2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo