“Dorita“
b/ Will Calhoun Life in This World
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THE HEART BEAT
OF LIVING COLOUR
• WILL CALHOUN #2
• LIVING COLOUR
Will Calhoun
Bronx, New York
Berklee School of Music
Boston, Mass
Bachelor of Science (Music)
Production
engineering
• Buddy Rich Jazz Masters Award
outstanding performance by a drummer
• Best Drummer
Rolling Stone Magazine’s Critics Poll
• Best New Drummer
Modern Drummer Magazine’s Readers Poll
• Most Progressive Drummer
Modern Drummer Magazine’s Readers Poll
three times
an improvisational blend
Mixing Hard Rock, Fusion, and Jazz. Hip hop, Ambient, and Funk. AND SOUNDS ALL HIS OWN.
FROM THE BEGINNING,
WILL MADE HIS PRESENCE WELL KNOW.
A rhythmic and impactful force in Living Colour, in its always electrifying and soulful live shows, and as a writer, producer, and player, on the band’s first four Epic albums:
Vivid
Time’s Up
Biscuits (EP)
Stain
[1989] — “Best New Artist” MTV Video Music Awards
[1990] — “Cult Of Personality” Vivid
“Best Hard Rock Performance” Grammy Award
[1990] — Time’s Up
“Best Hard Rock Performance” Stone Free Grammy Award
[1993] — “Crosstown Traffic” Stone Free Grammy Award
[1994] — THE END OF THE BEGINNING
Pride
(No) Dread
solo — electronic tonal expressions
Housework
Drum Wave
Head>>Fake (SOUNDSYSTEM)
DouG & WiLL (bAsS & drUm)
Jungle Funk
Ambient World Music
w/ WiLL / Doug / VinX
Album of the Year (hon.mention) Australia
Youssef Dhafer
Susanne Deyhim
Straight Outta The Bronx
The Will Calhoun Quintet —
Live at the Blue Note.
World Ambient Jazz
Bobby Watson (saxophone)
Terrell Stafford (trumpet)
John Benitez (bass)
Orrin Evans (piano)
MosDef
Black Jack Johnson
Will Calhoun d.(Musical Director)
Bernie Worrell k.(Funkadelic)
Doug Wimbish b.(Tack>>Head)
Doc Know g.(Bad Brains)
MOS DEF (NYC) @ THE RITZ [2000]
CollideØscope
Chair In The Doorway
“Pride” (Time’s Up)
“Nothingness” (Stain)
Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance by a group (“Cult Of Personality”)
• Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance (Time’s Up)
• International Rock Award for Best Rock Band.
recorded and/or toured with:
B.B. King
Mick Jagger
Jaco Pastorious
Harry Belafonte
Pharoah Sanders
Jack Dejohnette
Paul Simon
Lou Reed
The Allman Brothers
Lauryn Hill
RUN DMC
Public Enemy
Marcus Miller
Dr.John
Carly Simon
Herb Alpert
Ron Wood
Wayne Shorter
— Grammy-winning CD “High Life”
RUN DMC
Public Enemy
Herb Alpert
— Colors
The New Danger [2004]
b/ Mos Def (Black Jack Johnson)
Brown Sugar
The Italian Job
World Jazz
Urban Trance
Pharoah Sanders
Mos Def
Buster Williams
Stanley Jordan
Kevin Eubanks
Marcus Miller
Wallace Roney, as well as
Nana Vasconcelos (Brazil) and
Cheick Tidiane Seck (Mali).
jazz, rock, hip-hop, ambient, et al, while producing, touring, educating
Sundance Film
Robert Redford
Miami Arts Group …
— originalnoise.org
Will discusses Native Lands