Barrett Martin American Drummer
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Barrett Martin is a 56 year old American Drummer born on 14th April, 1967 in Seattle, Washington. His zodiac sign is Aries
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First Name |
Barrett
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Last Name |
Martin
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Birthday |
14th April, 1967
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Birthplace |
Seattle, Washington
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Zodiac Sign |
Aries
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Nationality |
American
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Occupation Text |
Musician
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Occupation |
Drummer
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Music Genre (Text) |
Alternative rock, jazz, world music
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Year(s) Active |
1989-present
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Instrument (text) |
Drums, percussion, upright bass, vibraphone
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Record Label |
Columbia, Cruz, Epic, Sunyata
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Associated Acts |
Barrett Martin Group, Walking Papers, Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Skin Yard, Queens of the Stone Age, Tuatara, The Desert Sessions
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Barrett Martin (born April 14, 1967) is an American drummer, upright bassist, composer, producer, writer, and Zen artist. He was the drummer for the Seattle, Washington groups Skin Yard and Screaming Trees, as well as the supergroups Mad Season and Tuatara. A multi-instrumentalist and producer, he does recording session work in Seattle and Los Angeles and has played on, or produced, over 75 albums to date. He is primarily known for his powerful tribal drumming style, which includes the use of the tom toms as a rhythmic component that replaces the traditional hihat and ride cymbal. He credits the jazz drummers Art Blakey, Max Roach, and Elvin Jones for inspiring this approach to his drumming style, as well as the rock drummers John Bonham, Keith Moon, and Neil Peart. He has also stated that the heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali inspired his drumming at a young age, saying, "Ali was so incredibly fast on his feet, and his hands were both light and heavy at the same time. Float like a butterfly, sting like bee, that's the way a great drummer should play - light and heavy, the way Ali boxed." Martin has been featured on dozens of albums and several film soundtracks, and notable collaborations include work with REM guitarist Peter Buck, Iraqi master musician Rahim Alhaj, West African Griot and master musician Foday Musa Suso, delta bluesman CeDell Davis, Rumi scholar and poet Coleman Barks, and Native American poet and songwriter Joy Harjo. The PBS short documentary on Barrett's drumming and Zenga painting, titled "Zenga and the Art of Percussion", won a 2009 Emmy in the New Media Arts category.
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