Will Calhoun

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Review:

This is the fiftieth in a series of special Jazz on the Tube reviews of live stream performances.

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Drummer Will Calhoun graduated from the Berklee College of Music, and then became famous as the drummer of the innovative rock group Living Colour.

Calhoun has also worked with many top names in jazz and rock including Pharoah Sanders, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Marcus Miller, B.B. King, Herb Alpert, Dr. John and Public Enemy, in addition to leading a few albums of his own.

On the first piece on his LiveStream from May 25, 2000, Will Calhoun is a one-man band, creating an electronic drone and playing over it with a horn that sounds like an electrified flute.

The bulk of the performance is a colorful and creative drum solo that he creates while interacting with some electronics to achieve an unusual variety of sounds.

-Scott Yanow