Jim Black


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

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 Feel
  • Human Feel
  • Scatter
  • Welcome to Malpesta
  • Speak to It
  • Galore
  • Gold
With BB&C
  • ''The Veil''

    As sideman

With Laurie Anderson
With Tim Berne
  • Lowlife: The Paris Concert
  • Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert
  • Memory Select: The Paris Concert
  • Unwound
  • Saturation Point
  • Discretion
  • Seconds
  • Insomnia
  • Attention Spam
  • 5
With Carlos Bica
  • Azul
  • Twist
  • Look What They've Done to My Song
  • Believer
  • Things About
  • More Than This
  • Azul in Ljubljana
With David Binney
  • South
  • Balance
With Uri Caine
With Danilo Gallo Dark Dry Tears
  • Thinking Beats Where Mind Dies
  • Hide, Show Yourself!
  • A View through a slot
With Dave Douglas
  • The Tiny Bell Trio
  • Constellations
  • Live in Europe
  • Songs for Wandering Souls
With Mark Dresser
With Ellery Eskelin
  • Jazz 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 Speed
  • Yeah No
  • Deviantics
  • Emit
  • Swell Henry
With Pachora
  • Pachora
  • Unn
  • Ast
  • Astereotypical
With Endangered Blood
  • Endangered Blood
  • Work Your Magic
  • Don't Freak Out
With Peter Evans
  • Ghosts
  • Destination: Void
  • Genesis
With Satoko Fujii
  • Looking 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 Jensson
  • Dofinn
  • Tyft
  • Ditty Blei
With David Liebman
  • Different but the Same
  • Renewal
  • Non Sequiturs
With Ben Monder
  • Flux
  • Dust
  • Excavation
With Jamie Saft
  • Ragged Jack
  • Sovlanut
With others