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Michael Zerang
Zerang performing in 2018
Zerang performing in 2018
Background information
Born (1958-11-16) November 16, 1958 (age 67)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
GenresJazz
OccupationMusician
InstrumentDrums

Michael Zerang (born November 16, 1958) is an American jazz percussionist and drummer.

Career

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Zerang's parents both emigrated to the United States from the Middle East; his father is Iranian and his mother Iraqi.[1] He began playing professionally in 1976 with Kent Kessler and studied at Wilbur Wright College from 1977 to 1978 and Roosevelt College from 1978 to 1982.[1]

Zerang has played with Dave Rempis, Edward Wilkerson, Fred Anderson, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jeff Parker, Joe McPhee, Josh Berman, Kent Kessler, Luc Houtkamp [de], Elisabeth Harnik [de], Kevin Drumm, Scott Fields, Mars Williams, Tatsu Aoki, and Hamid Drake. He has also played with international musicians such as Axel Dörner, Fredy Studer, Hannes Bauer, Jaap Blonk, Mats Gustafsson, Mazen Kerbaj, Peter Brötzmann, and Tobias Delius. He has been a jazz educator at the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University in addition to founding and directing the Link's Hall Performance Series from 1985 to 1989.[2]

See also Winter solstice concerts by Drake & Zerang Duo.

Discography

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As leader

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  • Improvisors (Kontrans, 1996)
  • Redmoon Theater's the Ballad of Frankie and Johnny (Eighth Day Music, 1997)
  • 35 Grapes (19 Sown) (BoxMedia, 1998)
  • Scratch Match (Penumbra, 2000)
  • Guts (OkkaDisk, 2007)
  • Cardinal Point (Fundacja Słuchaj, 2020)

As guest

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References

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  1. ^ a b Biography Archived 2015-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians. Jazz.com.
  2. ^ Michael Zerang biography, AllMusic

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Hamid Drake

Drake & Michael Zerang". Pink Palace Recordings (Michael Zerang). Retrieved 2020-12-04. "For Ed Blackwell". Pink Palace Recordings (Michael Zerang). Retrieved

Guts (McPhee, Brötzmann, Kessler, and Zerang album)

Guts is an album by Joe McPhee, Peter Brötzmann, Kent Kessler and Michael Zerang recorded in 2005 and released on the Okka Disc label in 2007. Allmusic

Joe McPhee

and Michael Zerang Blue Chicago Blues (Not Two, 2010) with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Creole Gardens (A New Orleans Suite) (NoBusiness, 2011) with Michael Zerang

Jeff Parker (musician)

(with Bernard Santacruz and Michael Zerang; Marge, 2002) Like-Coping (Delmark, 2003) Out Trios, Vol. 2 (with Michael Zerang and Kevin Drumm; Atavistic

3 Nights in Oslo

Lonberg-Holm, double bassist Kent Kessler, and drummers Paal Nilssen-Love and Michael Zerang. The entire ensemble is heard on discs 1 and 5, while the remaining

Mats Gustafsson

forming a particular affinity with Chicago musicians Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang, and Ken Vandermark and recording for Okka Disk. He has lived in Nickelsdorf

Tales Out of Time

of Time is an album by Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler and Michael Zerang recorded in 2002 and released on the Swiss HatHut label in 2004. Allmusic

Solid Action (Ken Vandermark album)

the Vandermark Quartet, which includes bassist Kent Kessler, drummer Michael Zerang and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Scanlan replacing former guitarist