Jeff Ballard

Born: September 17, 1963

Jeff Ballard grew up in Santa Cruz, California. He recalls when he was a child laying in bed listening to the music his father would play every weekend: Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Armstrong, Sergio Mendez, Oscar Peterson, Milton Nascimento; how he loved the sound and the speed of Ed Thigpen��s brushes on the snare. ��I remember feeling the power of a Basie big band shout chorus which would then suddenly disappear into some quiet dancing riff. It was the swing in it, which excited me the most. I also remember how it felt traveling thru sounds of the jungle in a Milton Nascimento record

This Is Water

By Reinier Baas

Label: DoYouMind? Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: This Is Water, Skull-Sized Kingdoms, Freeze (ft. Jeff Ballard), Brother's Keeper (for Gideon), Recess, Miniatures (ft. Cory Smythe), Fan Fiction (ft. Jeff Ballard), Glass, Skull-Sized Kingdoms II, Love and Strife (ft. Marta Warelis, Han Bennink), Harmonious

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