The drummer from Living Color returns to his jazz roots with a new album on Motema Music. The record features New Orleans saxophonist Donald Harrison as well as other standout musicians.
Before he became famous as a member of the groundbreaking hard rock group Living Colour, Will Calhoun was an aspiring jazz drummer raised on a steady diet of his father’s bebop records.
Calhoun goes back to his roots on his latest album, Life In This World—but to get there he takes a circuitous route through a wealth of musical experience around the globe, from studies with master musicians in Africa to experiments with electronic music in his home studio,
Calhoun’s adventurous sonic imagination couldn’t help but expand the horizons of a stellar jazz recording which pairs the drummer with greats including Wallace Roney, Donald Harrison, Charnett Moffett, Marc Cary, Doug Wimbish, John Benitez, and legendary bassist Ron Carter.
