Hamid Drake (born August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and African percussion instruments and influence, in addition to using the standard trap set, Drake has collaborated extensively with top

free jazz Free jazz is an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians during ...

improvisers. Drake also has performed world music; by the late 1970s, he was a member of Foday Musa Suso's Mandingo Griot Society and has played

reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...

throughout his career. Drake has worked with trumpeter

Don Cherry Donald Stewart Cherry (born February 5, 1934) is a Canadian former ice hockey player, coach, and television commentator. Cherry played one game in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Boston Bruins, and later coached the team for five se ...

, pianist

Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he help ...

, saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Fred Anderson,

Archie Shepp Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz. Biography Early life Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but ...

and David Murray and bassists

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and William Parker (in many lineups) He studied drums extensively, including eastern and Caribbean styles. He frequently plays without sticks, using his hands to develop subtle commanding undertones. His

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playing is notable for his subtlety and flair. Drake's questing nature and his interest in Caribbean percussion led to a deep involvement with reggae.

Early life

Hamid Drake (birth name Henry Lawrence Drake) was born in 1955 in Monroe, Louisiana, and his family moved to Evanston, Illinois, when he was a child. There he started playing with local rock and R&B bands, which eventually brought him to the attention of Fred Anderson, an older saxophonist who had also moved to Evanston from Monroe as a child decades before. Drake worked with Anderson from 1974 to 2010 including on Anderson's 1979 ''The Missing Link''. At Fred Anderson's workshops, a young Hamid met

Douglas Ewart Douglas R. Ewart (born 13 September 1946 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder. He plays sopranino and alto saxophones, clarinets, bassoon, flute, bamboo flutes ('' shakuhachi'', ''ney'', and panpipe ...

, George E. Lewis and other members of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Another of the most significant percussion influences on Drake,

Ed Blackwell Edward Joseph Blackwell (October 10, 1929 – October 7, 1992) was an American jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana, known for his extensive, influential work with Ornette Coleman. Biography Blackwell's early career began in New Orleans ...

, dates from this period. Hamid's flowing rhythmic expressions and interest in the roots of the music drew like~minded musicians together into a performance and educational collective named th
Mandingo Griot Society
which combined traditional African music and narrative with distinctly American influences.

Career

, who Drake first met in 1978, was another continuing collaborator. After meeting Don Cherry, Hamid and fellow percussionist

Adam Rudolph Adam Rudolph (born September 12, 1955) is a jazz composer and percussionist performing in the post-bop and world fusion media. In 1988, Rudolph met jazz musician Yusef Lateef, and the two would go on to collaborate and perform together for t ...

travelled with Don to Europe, where they explored the interior landscape of percussion and shared deeply in Mr. Cherry's grasp of music's spiritually infinite transformational possibilities. Drake worked extensively with him from 1978 until Cherry's death in 1995. Drake was one of the founders, along with

Foday Musa Suso Foday Musa Suso (born 9 December 1953, in Sarre Hamadi, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of The Gambia) is a Gambian musician and composer. He is a member of the Mandinka ethnic group, and is a griot. Griots are the oral historians ...

and

, of The Mandingo Griot Society. His other frequent collaborators include New York bassist William Parker, saxophonist David Murray, composer and percussionist

, German

saxophonist

Peter Brötzmann Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German saxophonist and clarinetist. Biography Early life Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement ...

and drummer Michael Zerang. Iva Bittová and Hamid Drake 07

Hamid Drake has played and/or recorded with:

, Pharoah Sanders, Fred Anderson,

, bassist William Parker (in many lineups),

Yusef Lateef Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America. Although Lateef's main instruments ...

Wayne Shorter Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Dav ...

Bill Laswell William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. He has been involved in thousands of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. His music draws from funk, ...

, David Murray, Joe Morris,

Evan Parker Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free ja ...

Paolo Angeli Paolo Angeli (born 1970 in Olbia, Sardinia, Italy) is a guitarist, composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder associated with traditional Sardinian music, flamenco, jazz, post-rock and experimental music. He plays his own prepared Sar ...

Jim Pepper Jim Gilbert Pepper II (June 18, 1941 – February 10, 1992) was a jazz saxophonist, composer and singer of Kaw and Muscogee Creek Native American heritage. He moved to New York City in 1964, where he came to prominence in the late 1960s as a mem ...

, Roy Campbell,

Matthew Shipp Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American pianist, composer, and bandleader. Early life and education Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and began playing piano at six years old. His mother was a friend of trumpeter Clifford B ...

Sabir Mateen Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is an American musician and composer from Philadelphia. His musical style is primarily avant-garde jazz. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute. As a young man, Mateen was origi ...

Rob Brown
Mat Walerian,

Marilyn Crispell Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Scott Yanow described her as "a powerful player... who has her own way of using space... She is near the top of her field." Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrot ...

Johnny Dyani Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986) was a South African jazz double bassist, vocalist and pianist, who, in addition to being a key member of The Blue Notes, played with such international musicians as Don Cherry, Steve L ...

Dewey Redman Walter Dewey Redman (May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006) was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett. Redman mainly played tenor saxophone, though he occasionally also played ...

Joe McPhee Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is ...

Hassan Hakmoun Hassan Hakmoun ( ar, حسن حكمون) (born 16 September 1963) is a Moroccan musician who specializes in the Gnawa style. Early life Hakmoun was born to a family of musicians

Joseph Jarman Joseph Jarman (September 14, 1937 – January 9, 2019) was an American jazz musician, composer, poet, and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He was one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and a member of the ...

, George E. Lewis,

John Tchicai John Martin Tchicai ( ; 28 April 1936 – 8 October 2012) was a Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer. Biography Tchicai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a Danish mother and a Congolese father. The family moved to Aarhus, where he st ...

Iva Bittová Iva Bittová (born 22 July 1958) is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer. She began her career as an actor in the mid-1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. ...

Ken Vandermark Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compos ...

, and almost all of the members of the AACM. These diverse artists all play in a broad range of musical settings which allows Drake to comfortably adapt to north and west African and Indian impulses as well as reggae and Latin. Although engaged as sideman, he has also devoted his energies and creativity as a band leader; focusing on his own groups and projects such a
Bindu
and Indigo Trio. Drake has frequently appeared with jazz legend

in various configurations. The most common is the group ''Phat Jam'' along with human beat boxer and rapper Napoleon Maddox. Drake also works with Maddox in the jazz hip hop group ''ISWHAT?!''. Drake performs with European jazz groups, recording with Hungarian musicians such as Viktor Tóth and

Mihály Dresch Mihály Dresch (born 1955) is a Hungarian saxophone player. He plays a combination of American free jazz and traditional Hungarian folk music. Dresch was studying to become an engineer when he turned to jazz. He was a member of the Károly Bind ...

. In addition to the drum set, Drake performs on the frame drum, the tabla, and other hand drums.

Winter solstice concerts by Drake & Zerang Duo

Since 1991 Drake has collaborated with fellow percussionist Michael Zerang to present annual

winter solstice The winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere ( Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the winte ...

concerts. Both musicians have been committed to return to Chicago, from wherever they may be performing, to stage the solstice event which commemorates the northern hemisphere's shortest day. (In most years, about a week later Drake performs again in Chicago with the DKV Trio.) About the winter event Drake has said, Occasionally, including in 2020, the Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang Duo have also performed a

summer solstice The summer solstice, also called the estival solstice or midsummer, occurs when one of Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere ( Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the summer ...

concert in Chicago. The duo has released two albums – ''Ask the Sun'' (1996) and ''For Ed Blackwell'' (2015, recorded in 1995).

Partial discography

As leader/coleader

* '' Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom'' (

Okka Disk Okka Disk is an independent American jazz record company and label founded in Chicago by Bruno Johnson in 1994. Okka began as a rock music label, but Johnson soon changed direction to record free jazz.

, 1999, 000 with

* '' The All-Star Game'' (Eremite, 2000,

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with

Marshall Allen Marshall Belford Allen (born May 25, 1924) is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and EWI (an electronic valve instrument made by Steiner, Crumar company). Allen is best ...

Kidd Jordan Edward "Kidd" Jordan (born May 5, 1935) is an American jazz saxophonist and music educator from New Orleans, Louisiana. After completing a music degree at Southern University in Baton Rouge, he relocated to New Orleans. He taught at Southern Un ...

, William Parker, and

Alan Silva Alan Silva (born Alan Lee da Silva; January 22, 1939 in Bermuda) is an United States of America, American free jazz double bassist and Keyboard instrument, keyboard player. Biography Silva was born a British subject to an Azores, Azorean/Portug ...

* ''Reggaeology'' (

RogueArt RogueArt (also written Rogueart and Rogue Art) is a French independent record label based in Paris. It was founded by record producer Michel Dorbon in 2005 and specialises in jazz and improvised music. History RogueArt was founded by record p ...

, 2010) * ''Blissful'' (RogueArt, 2008) * ''Bindu'' (RogueArt, 2005) * ''Hu: Vibrational Universal Mother'' (

Soul Jazz Soul jazz or funky jazz is a subgenre of jazz that incorporates strong influences from hard bop, blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues. Soul jazz is often characterized by organ trios featuring the Hammond organ and small combos including ten ...

) * '' Live at Okuden'' (

ESP-Disk ESP-Disk is a New York-based record company and label founded in 1963 by lawyer Bernard Stollman. History Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music, beginning with its second release (Albert Ayler's ''Spiritual Unity''), ESP ...

, 2016) * ''Some Good News'' (Otoroku, 2021) ;with DKV Trio * See also: Ken Vandermark discography#DKV Trio ;with Indigo Trio * ''The Ethiopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest'' (RogueArt, 2011) * '' Anaya'' (RogueArt, 2009) * ''Live in Montreal'' (Greenleaf, 2007) ;with Mandingo Griot Society * ''Mandingo Griot Society'' * ''Mighty Rhythm'' * ''Watto Sitta'' ;with

* ''Contemplations'' * ''12 Arrows'' * ''Dream Garden'' ;with Pharoah Sanders and Adam Rudolph * ''

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'' (Meta, 2000) ;with Spaceways Inc. *See also: Ken Vandermark discography#with Spaceways Inc. ;Various duos * Drake/Stewart – ''Timelines'' * Drake/Mateen – '' Brothers Together'' * Drake/McPhee – ''

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'' * Drake/Tsahar – ''Live at Glenn Miller Café'' * Drake/Tsahar – ''Soul Bodies vol. 1'' * Drake/Zerang – ''Ask the Sun'' (1996,

/Pink Palace) * Drake/Zerang – ''For

'', recorded 1995 (2015, Pink Palace)

As sideman

With Fred Anderson * ''Another Place'' ( Moers Music, Moers, 1978) * '' Dark Day'' (Message, 1979); reissue as ''Dark Day + Live in Verona'' ( Atavastic, 2001) * '' The Missing Link'' (

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, 1979, issued 1984) * '' The Milwaukee Tapes Vol. 1'' (Atavistic, 1980, issued 2000) * ''

Destiny Destiny, sometimes referred to as fate (from Latin ''fatum'' "decree, prediction, destiny, fate"), is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. Fate Although often ...

'' (Okka Disk, 1995) * '' Birdhouse'' (Okka Disk, 1996) * ''

Live at the Velvet Lounge ''Live at the Velvet Lounge'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson with German free jazz bassist Peter Kowald and long-time collaborator drummer Hamid Drake. The record documents a June 1998 performance at the Chicago club owne ...

'' (Okka Disk, 1999) * '' 2 Days in April'' (

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, 2000) * '' Fred Anderson Quartet Volume Two'' (Asian Improv, 2000) * ''

On the Run, Live at the Velvet Lounge ''On the Run, Live at the Velvet Lounge'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson, which was recorded in 2000 at his Chicago club, the Velvet Lounge, and released on Delmark. He's backed by his regular rhythm section of bassist Ta ...

'' ( Delmark, 2001) * '' Back Together Again'' (

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, 2004) * '' Blue Winter'' (Eremite, 2005) * ''

Timeless, Live at the Velvet Lounge ''Timeless, Live at the Velvet Lounge'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson, which was recorded in 2005 and released on Delmark. It was the third live recording on Bob Koester's label made at Fred's own club, the Velvet Lounge ...

'' (Delmark, 2006) * ''

From the River to the Ocean ''From the River to the Ocean'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson with drummer Hamid Drake, which was released in 2007 on the Thrill Jockey label. Music For this project Anderson and Drake drafted three fellow Chicagoans: ...

'' (Thrill Jockey, 2007) ;with

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and Fred Anderson * '' Willisau & Taktlos'' (Intakt, 2007) ;with

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*''

Freebop Now! ''Freebop Now!'' (subtitled ') is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson recorded and released by the Delmark label in 1998.Scott Fields Scott Fields (born September 30, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for blending music that is composed with music that is written and for his modular pieces (see ''48 Motives'', ''96 Gestures'' ...

* '' Five Frozen Eggs'' (Music and Arts/Clean Feed, 1997/2011) * ''Dénouement'' (Geode/Clean Feed, 1999/2011) ;with William Parker * '' Painter's Spring'' (

Thirsty Ear Thirsty Ear Recordings is an American independent record label. It was founded in the late 1970s as a marketing company for the then-unnamed alternative music field, and expanded to issue its own records in 1990. Thirsty Ear came to prominence ...

, 2000) * ''

Piercing the Veil ''Piercing the Veil'' is an album by bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake, which was recorded in 2000 and originally released on the AUM Fidelity label. The album was later reissued in 2007 as a 2-CD set adding the live recording ''Fir ...

'' ( AUM Fidelity, 2001) – reissued in 2007 as ''Piercing the Veil + First Communion'' * '' O'Neal's Porch'' (AUM Fidelity, 2000) * '' Eloping with the Sun'' (Riti, 2001) – with Joe Morris and William Danced * '' Raining on the Moon'' (Thirsty Ear, 2002) * ''

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'' (Thirsty Ear, 2003) * '' Sound Unity'' (AUM Fidelity, 2005) * '' Summer Snow'' (AUM Fidelity, 2005 007 * '' Corn Meal Dance'' (AUM Fidelity, 2007) * '' Alphaville Suite'' (RogueArt, 2007) * '' I Plan to Stay a Believer'' (AUM Fidelity, 2010) * '' Double Sunrise Over Neptune'' (AUM Fidelity, 2007) * '' Petit Oiseau'' (AUM Fidelity, 2007) * '' Essence of Ellington'' (Centering, 2012) * '' Wood Flute Songs'' (AUM Fidelity, 2013) * ''Organic Grooves'' arker/Drake– Black Cherry * ''Palm of Soul'' – Jordan/Parker/Drake * ''The Last Dances'' – Drake/Gahnold/Parker ;with Roy Campbell * '' Ethnic Stew and Brew'' ;with Herbie Hancock * '' Sound-System'' * '' Jazz Africa'' ;with David Murray * '' Gwotet'' * ''Live in Berlin'' * '' Waltz Again'' ;with Rob Brown * '' The Big Picture'' ( Marge, 2004) ;with Albert Beger and William Parker * ''Evolving Silence Vol. 1'' (Earsay's Jazz, 2005) * ''Evolving Silence Vol. 2'' (Earsay's Jazz, 2006) ;with Chicago Trio * '' Velvet Songs'' (RogueArt, 2011) ;with Peter Brotzmann * ''Brötzmann/Drake –

The Dried Rat–Dog ''The Dried Rat–Dog'' is an album by saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and drummer Hamid Drake. It was recorded in May 1994 at Sparrow Sound Design in Chicago, and was released in 1995 by Okka Disk. Regarding the album title, producer John Corbett w ...

'' * ''Brötzmann/Drake – Brötzmann/Drake'' * ''Brötzmann/Kessler/Drake – Live at the Empty Bottle'' * ''Brötzmann/Mahmoud Gania/Drake –

The Wels Concert ''The Wels Concert'' is a live album by German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, Moroccan guembri player Mahmoud Guinia, and American drummer Hamid Drake. It was recorded in November 1996 at the Schlachthof cultural center in Wels, Austria, and was re ...

'' * ''Brötzmann/Moukhtar Gania/Drake – The Catch of a Ghost'' * ''Brötzmann/Kondo/Parker/Drake – Die Like a Dog: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler'' * ''Brötzmann/Parker/Drake – Never Too Late But Always Too Early'' * ''Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – Broken English'' * ''Brötzmann Chicago Octet/Tentet – The Chicago Octet/Tentet'' * ''Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – Images'' * ''Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – Short Visit to Nowhere'' * ''Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – Signs'' * ''Brötzmann Chicago Tentet – Stone/Water'' * ''Brötzmann/Die Like a Dog –

Aoyama Crows ''Aoyama Crows'' is a live album by the Die Like a Dog Quartet: saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, bassist William Parker, and drummer Hamid Drake. It was recorded in November 1999 at the "Total Music Meeting" held at the P ...

'' * ''Brötzmann/Die Like a Dog – Close Up'' * ''Brötzmann/Die Like a Dog – From Valley to Valley'' * ''Brötzmann/Die Like a Dog – Little Birds Have Fast Hearts No. 1'' * ''Brötzmann/Die Like a Dog – Little Birds Have Fast Hearts No. 2'' * ''Parker/Brötzmann – The Bishop's Move'' * ''Drake/Brötzmann/Hopkins – The Atlanta Concert'' ;with

and

* '' Hyperion'' (

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, 1995) ;with

Steve Swell Steve Swell (born in Newark, New Jersey, December 6, 1954) is an American free jazz trombonist, composer, and educator. Music career Swell studied at Jersey City State Teachers College before moving to New York City in 1975 where he began his m ...

* '' Swimming in a Galaxy of Goodwill and Sorrow'' (RogueArt, 2007) ;with IsWhat?! * ''You Figure It Out'' (Hyena, 2004) * ''The Life We Chose'' (Hyena, 2006) ;with Painkiller * " 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 12" (2003) ;with Beans * ''Only'' (with William Parker) (2006) ;with Yakuza * ''Transmutations'' (Prosthetic, (2007) ;with Joshua Abrams * ''Magnetoception'' (

Eremite Records Eremite Records is an independent American jazz record label founded in 1995 by Michael Ehlers, with early involvement from music writer Byron Coley. Ehlers was a student of Archie Shepp's at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After college, ...

MTE-63/64, (2015) ;with Mako Sica * ''Ronda'' (Feeding Tube co-released with Astral Spirits/Instant Classic, (2018) * ''Balancing Tear'' (Feeding Tube co-released with Astral Spirits, 2020) * ''Ourania'' featuring Tatsu Aoki & Thymme Jones (Feeding Tube/Instant Classic, 2021) ;with Chico Freeman / George Freeman * ''All in the Family'' (Southport, (2015) ;with Pharoah Sanders * '' Message from Home'' (Verve, 1996) ;with

David S. Ware David Spencer Ware (November 7, 1949 – October 18, 2012) was an American jazz saxophone, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. Biography Ware was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. While in high sc ...

* ''

Live in the World ''Live in the World'' is a live album by the David S. Ware Quartets. Six tracks were recorded in Switzerland in 1998, and feature Ware on saxophone, Matthew Shipp on piano, William Parker on bass, and Susie Ibarra on drums. The remaining tracks ...

'' (Thirsty Ear, 2005)

References

External links

Complete discography

Hamid Drake at RogueArt jazz label

Hamid Drake at Allmusic.com

Hamid Drake/Iswhat?! video interview at Allaboutjazz
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