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Donald Edwards
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Donald Edwards

Biography & Career

Website: www.donaldedwards.com

Since his emergence in 1987 Donald Edwards has played across the globe with some of the finest musicians in jazz. He is now building a reputation all his own. Donald Edwards has performed with jazz greats such as Freddie Hubbard, Tom Harrell, Donald Harrison, Jesse Davis, Greg Tardy, Carmen Lundy, Ralph Bowen. Branford Marsalis, Javon Jackson, Ximo Tebar, Ellis Marsalis, Alex Sipiagin, Wessell Anderson, Orrin Evans, Joey Calderazzo, Wynton Marsalis, The Mingus Big Band, Dynasty & Orchestra, Charlie Hunter, Dave Holland, Dr. Lonnie Smith, David Kikoski, Russell Malone, Conrad Herwig, Alvin Batiste, Seamus Blake, Boris Kozlov, Stefon Harris, Henry Butler, George Colligan and Mark Whitfield.

Edwards was born into a musical family. His father Dock is a classical pianist and his mother Geraldine, a voice major. Edwards began playing music at the age of eleven in Opelousas, Louisiana. He went on to study music at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where the renowned teacher Alvin Batiste resides. He then continued in music education as an adjunct teacher at the University Of New Orleans. Edwards, now in New York, continues to give his time to help teach young aspiring percussionist in schools throughout the community.

After winning the Louisiana Arts Ambassador’s Award 1994 for Music Composition , Donald Edwards became one of the most sought after drummers on the New Orleans music scene. New Orleans is place with a vocabulary of music all it’s own and Edwards is a drummer steeped in that tradition. He came up playing different kinds of music ranging from marching band, hip-hop and pop to r&b, jazz, funk and gospel music. As a result, Edwards is now called on to play many different genres of music and meets them with creative interpretation and virtuosity. Donald Edwards is among the vanguard of players on the New York scene today.

Edwards has two recordings as a leader -In The Vernacular- (Leaning House Label) and -Ducktones- (Zoot - T Label) and is also involved in the production of numerous recording projects. With skills steeped in the rich and varied traditions of Louisiana, drummer and composer Donald Edwards is dedicated in his pursuit of creative improvisation, compositional development, and experimentation with rhythms through conversing in dialects of a universal language we call music.

Hardware & Setup

Drums

Ludwig Classic Maple Granite Glitter

16x18 Bass Drum

8x10 Tom tom

10x12 Tom Tom

14x14 Floor Tom

Snare Drum(s):

5x14 Black Beauty

Hardware

Ludwig Atlas Pro Hardware

LAP16HH Atlas Pro Hi Hat Stand

LAP15FP Atlas Pro Foot Pedal

LAP37BCS Atlas Pro Boom Cymbal Stand

LAC49TH Atlas Classic Round Throne

On Tour


Donald Edwards

donaldedwards.com/tour

Donald Edwards
Independent

USA

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