Jim Black


Jim Black is an American jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas. He attended Berklee College of Music.
WWW jimblack.com

Career

His band AlasNoAxis includes Hilmar Jensson on electric guitar, Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clarinet, and Skúli Sverrisson on bass guitar. The music is in some ways closer to post-rock than jazz, concentrating on rhythmic shifts and ensemble texture rather than featured solos. Since 2000 Winter & Winter has released several of the band's albums.
Pachora includes Black, Speed, Sverrisson, and Brad Shepik on tambura and electric saz. This band plays music that is rhythmically diverse and inspired by Balkan rhythms.
Black participated as drummer 12 in the Boredoms 77 Boadrum performance on July 7, 2007 at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York.
He is also one-third of the group BBC with alto saxophonist Berne and Nels Cline of Wilco. The group released the album The Veil in 2011.

Discography

As leader

  • ''Malamute''

With AlasNoAxis

AlasNoAxis Splay Habyor Dogs of Great Indifference Houseplant
  • ''Antiheroes''

With the Jim Black Trio

Somatic Actuality The Constant
  • ''Reckon''

With Jim & The Schrimps

Ain't No Saint
  • ''Better You Don't''

As co-leader

With Human FeelHuman Feel Scatter Welcome to Malpesta Speak to It Galore Gold
With BB&C

As sideman

With Laurie AndersonLife on a String Live at Town Hall New York City September 19-20 2001
With Tim BerneLowlife: The Paris Concert Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert Memory Select: The Paris Concert Unwound Saturation Point Discretion Seconds Insomnia Attention Spam 5
With Carlos BicaAzul Twist Look What They've Done to My Song Believer Things About More Than This Azul in Ljubljana
With David BinneySouth Balance
With Uri CaineGustav Mahler in Toblach Gustav Mahler: Dark Flame Uri Caine Ensemble Plays Mozart The Othello Syndrome Rhapsody in Blue
With Danilo Gallo Dark Dry TearsThinking Beats Where Mind Dies Hide, Show Yourself! A View through a slot
With Dave DouglasThe Tiny Bell Trio Constellations Live in Europe Songs for Wandering Souls
With Mark DresserSedimental You Ain't Nothing But a Cyber Coup & You
With Ellery EskelinJazz Trash One Great Day... Kulak, 29 & 30 Five Other Pieces Ramifications The Secret Museum 12 Imaginary Views Arcanum Moderne Ten Quiet Music One Great Night...Live
With Chris SpeedYeah No Deviantics Emit Swell Henry
With PachoraPachora Unn Ast Astereotypical
With Endangered BloodEndangered Blood Work Your Magic Don't Freak Out
With Peter EvansGhosts Destination: Void Genesis
With Satoko FujiiLooking Out of the Window Kitsune-bi Toward to West Junction Bell the Cat! Illusion Suite Live in Japan 2004 When We Were There Trace a River
With Hilmar JenssonDofinn Tyft Ditty Blei
With David LiebmanDifferent but the Same Renewal Non Sequiturs
With Ben MonderFlux Dust Excavation
With Jamie SaftRagged Jack Sovlanut
With others