Featured Drummers

• Bobby Sanabria, three-time Grammy-nominated Latin Percussion master, has performed with such greats as Tito Puente, Mario Bauza, Candido, Dizzy Gillespie, Paquito D'Rivera, Ray Barretto, and many more. Bobby was named 2005 Percussionist of the Year by DRUM! Magazine.
  
  
• Jamey Haddad is fresh off a five year tour with Paul Simon, and has also played with Carly Simon, Joe Lovano, and many others. Jamey is truly a World Music authority, blending jazz with middle eastern sounds. He is also a musical inventor, having invented several percussion instruments including the Hadjini.
  
  
• Paul Samuels has performed with Mose Allison, Greg Osby, James Moody, Dan Wall, Gerald Lavert, Ernie Krivda and Barney Kessel. Paul works primarily in the jazz genre and is consistently recognized as one of the best.
  
  
• Raquy Danziger is a master of the doumbek and has performed worldwide, having recently performed as a soloist with the troupe of the most famous Egyptian drummer, Saiid El-Artist.
  
  
• Jim Donovan is the drummer behind Rusted Root, whose music has inspired countless others to smile, sweat and shine with at once meditative and movement-oriented sounds.
  
  
• Bill Ransom is a musical chameleon who has toured and recorded with leading artists including Patrice Rushen, Beth Hart, Marion Meadows, Cecil Bridgewater, Diane Reeves, Mary Wilson, Najee and Gerald LeVert. His debut CD as bandleader, Generations, spent 11 consecutive weeks on Jazz Week's national airplay top 50 chart.
  
  
• Dr. Craig Woodson is the inventor of Hinge Drum Connectors with Remo Drums and is himself a master performer, conductor and creativity guru.
  
  
  

• The Latin Jazz Project
• Drumplay
• The Cleveland Women's Orchestra
• The Cleveland Opera
• Carlos Jones and the P.L.U.S. band