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Jeff Ballard Trio

Jeff Ballard Trio has been played on NTS shows including Questing w/ Zakia, with Mivakpola first played on 9 May 2020.

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…

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Mivakpola
Jeff Ballard Trio, Lionel Loueke, Miguel Zenon
Okeh2013
Mivakpola
Jeff Ballard Trio, Lionel Loueke, Miguel ZenonOkeh2013
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