Mark Colenburg (born in St. Louis, MO), is an American drummer and percussionist.
Life and career
Colenburg started using household objects as drums at the age of 2, and had his first performance at his home church at the age of 6. While in high school, he joined a music ministry under Levi "Too" King and played drums on his first professional recording and played with
Willie Atkins.
Colenburg won the Outstanding Musicianship Award, the All Suburban Jazz Ensemble Drum Chair and the All State Jazz Ensemble Drum Chair in Missouri.
After high school, Colenburg moved to New York to attend the Mannes School of Music at The New School University. His breakout gig in New York was with rapper
Common
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* Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
* Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts
* Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Q-Tip and other hip-hop headliners as well as jazz musicians
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Colenburg has performed with
Mos Def,
Lauryn Hill,
Amel Larrieux,
Kurt Rosenwinkel,
Lalah Hathaway, and
Macy Gray.
In 2011, Colenburg joined the
Robert Glasper Experiment, which explores fusions between jazz and hip-hop. In 2016, he served as Producer, Composer, Drummer, and vocalist on ''Artscience'' for Robert Glasper Experiment.
Colenburg is a Grammy Award Nominee for "Best R&B Album" for Robert Glasper Experiment, ''Black Radio II'' and Grammy Award-winning drummer for "Best Traditional R&B Performance" on "Jesus Children" with Robert Glasper Experiment, Lalah Hathaway, Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
Colenburg plays drums on "Water Games" on the album 2015 REVIVE Music Presents: Supreme Sonacy (Vol. 1), a compilation album produced by REVIVE in partnership with Blue Note Records.
In 2016, Colenburg played drums on several tracks for Derrick Hodge's album ''The Second'.' The album was released on August 8, 2016.
Mark also collaborated with Tribe Called Quest for their release ''We Got It From Here, Thank You For 4 Your Service.''
Colenburg has appeared on various television broadcasts including ''Conan'' and ''The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.''
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American drummers
Musicians from St. Louis