Internationally renowned jazz musician, Jimmy Madison, will release his candid, long-awaited autobiography that intersects the worlds of music and mountain climbing on September 1, 2025. In Drummer Boy, Madison shares both his vocation and his avocation from peak moments spent behind his drum kit to breathtaking moments climbing mountain peaks across the globe. His energy and devotion to both passions fill this gripping story that takes readers onto famous stages and into base camps at extreme altitudes.

The New Yorker called Madison ����a superlative drummer�� attentive, imaginative, swinging.�� His adrenaline-fueled journey will entertain music lovers as well as mountaineers as he shares his travels from jazz downbeats to freezing Himalayan updrafts. Throughout this book, his point of view is nothing less than fearless! Illustrated with dozens of historic photographs and designed by award-winning designer, Tom Ventress, the full-color, 8 ?�� x 11�� volume can be pre-ordered here or from your favorite bookseller.

Born in Cincinnati, Madison says, ��Sideman is a title I will always be proud to wear.�� This child prodigy began playing professionally at the age of twelve, long before he could legally drink in the venues where he performed. Between touring for gigs and hopping onto planes to distant mountain ranges, he racked up tens of thousands of miles in the air and on the ground. A few near misses along the way, musically and otherwise, will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

Jimmy played for a Who��s Who of modern musical icons including