Terry Silverlight


Terry Silverlight is a jazz, pop, rock and R&B drummer, composer, producer, arranger and author.
WWW terrysilverlight.com

Biography

Silverlight was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in North Plainfield, New Jersey. He made his debut as a drummer on Barry Miles' 's White Heat album, recorded in 1971 when Silverlight was fourteen years old. That early jazz/fusion album featured Barry Miles's compositions along with performances by guitarists Pat Martino, John Abercrombie, and saxophonist/flutist Lew Tabackin. Silverlight drummed on several more Barry Miles recordings throughout the 1970s performing alongside Al Di Meola, Vic Juris, Eric Kloss and Richard Davis.
After attending Princeton University, Silverlight moved to Manhattan and embarked upon a studio session career, playing drums on recordings for artists including Billy Ocean, George Benson, Laura Nyro, Stephanie Mills, Freddie Jackson, Anne Murray, Natalie Merchant, Jonathan Butler, Stephen Stills, Mel Tormé, Phil Woods, Tom Jones, Change, Odyssey, jingles, and film scores including You've Got Mail, One Fine Day, My Blue Heaven, Titus, What Planet Are You From? and Frida.
Silverlight has authored three drum books; The Featured Drummer, The Stick Bag of Jazz, Funk, Fusion and Gig Bag Series for Drummers: Rhythm & Percussion. All are published by Music Sales Corporation. He has been an educator appearing at clinics including PASIC, Sam Ash Music and Brooklyn College. He taught drums at the Drummers Collective in Manhattan from 1981-1985.
Silverlight toured worldwide as a member of Roberta Flack's band from 1986–1988, and has toured Japan yearly as a member of David Matthews's Manhattan Jazz Orchestra since 1996, having recorded several albums with that group.
Simultaneous to his drumming career, Silverlight has written songs, composed, produced, and arranged music for network TV shows including One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless, The Sopranos, All My Children, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Smallville, Ghost Whisperer, Strong Medicine, The District, Las Vegas, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, 7th Heaven, The Shield, Burn Notice, South Beach, jingle products Reebok, Nicorette, Pantene, Crisco, the films Invincible with Mark Wahlberg, Head over Heels with Monica Potter/Freddie Prinze, Jr., Marci X with Lisa Kudrow, Sunshine Cleaning with Alan Arkin/Emily Blunt/Amy Adams, Mad About Mambo with Keri Russell, and songs recorded by Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, Carl Anderson, Phillip Ingram, Louise Redknapp and Judy Torres.
Silverlight has seven solo artist recordings featuring his drumming and original compositions. Four are in the jazz genre: Terry Silverlight, Wild!!, Diamond in the Riff, and Live!, showcasing performances by Barry Miles, Will Lee, Paul Shaffer, Edgar Winter, Hiram Bullock, Chuck Loeb, Lew Soloff, and Bill Evans, among others. Three of the albums are in the pop genre featuring Silverlight's work as a songwriter, producer and arranger: Songwriter Producer: Volumes I & II, Collaborations: Volumes I & II, and Music To Picture.

Discography

As leader

Terry Silverlight Wild!! Diamond in the Riff
  • ''Live!''

As songwriter/producer/composer/arranger

Songwriter/Producer: Volumes I & II Collaborations: Volumes I & II
  • ''Music to Picture''

As pop/R&B/rock drummer sideman

Twice the Love The Butcher Boy Jonathan Butler More Than Friends Signature Miracles Sharing Your Love Spanish Fever Looking For The Light Rock Me Tonight Don't Let Love Slip Away An Imitation of Love Let It Roll Move Closer Times of Your Life Retrospective: 1995–2005 If I Were Your Woman Read My Lips Something to Talk About Mother's Spiritual Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro Suddenly (Billy Ocean album) Love Zone Tear Down These Walls Odyssey One Fine Day Only Human Back to Basics Restless One Moment in Time Titus You've Got Mail Out on the Street Harmony Farm
  • ''Home''

As jazz drummer sideman

Everything I Love CTI Summer Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl/Live Two In My Wildest Dreams Hands: The Tom Grant Collection Roadsong Bleecker Street Horizon Drive Bodies' Warmth Celebration Get It On Paint It Black Black Magic Woman Hey Duke Bach 2000 Some Skunk Funk Birdland Swing, Swing, Swing Spain In the Mood White Heat Scatbird Barry Miles and Silverlight Magic Theatre Sky Train Fusion Is...Barry Miles Zoot Suit Stomp Blue Thumb World Beat Trio Torme-A New Album Nightwings London Sessions
  • ''Seven Deadly Sins''

As drummer on other records

Aria 2 It's About Time Imperfect Rhymes Solus Unfinished Business NY Confidential La Nueva Vanguardia Nica's Dream Christmas of Peace NY International Stay Sun Is All We Need Deuce Not That Different Moishele Jewel Eyes Street World Beat 9 to 5 Sarah Greene Never Been So Donna Groom Sings Standards A Day in the Life of a Mother and Wife String Theory Songs From Another Place Only a Heartbeat Away Instead of Words Live at Montreaux Vol.2 Iimpressies Match Game En Las Buenas Y en las Malas Vol.6-35 Aniversario 1989-94 Funky Three Strings Haven't You Heard? My Love Is Here Lernertres Louisiana Moon Energia Guitars on Fire Super Latin/Jazz Watermelon Man Super Latin/Jazz Mambo No. 5 Furuhata Jazz in New York Sydney Winds/'00 Olympics album 1999-2006 Best of Best-MJO Messiah Feeling Mighty Nice I'll Do Anything for You Out of the Shadows Bossa Nova Pegasus Calypso Look to the Sky Love Either Goes Or Grows In Due Time The Beast in Me Manual for the Moral Minded Notes From All Over Salsa Verde Salsa Green-Go Something's Coming I Wish Cycle Journey Home Gut Reaction Welcome 2 My World Surrender Feels So Good Street Level
  • ''Swinging Guitar Sounds of Young America''