Jimmy Macbride making a name in the jazz world

Drummer/composer Jimmy Macbride has garnered numerous awards, including the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival and the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program at the Kennedy Center in DC.

Macbride is a fourth student at the Juilliard School, studying privately with Kenny Washington. He has twice been a member of the Monterey Jazz Festival Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, traveling to the North Sea Jazz Festival to perform.

In 2010, Jimmy was a finalist in the NFAA YoungArts program and has attended both the Vail Jazz Workshop and Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony. Macbride's received several ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composers Awards, ASCAP Plus Awards, and numerous Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards, as both a performer and composer.

Recent performances include Alice Tully Hall with Herbie Hancock and the Juilliard Jazz Combo, with the legendary Bob Dorough, music director of Schoolhouse Rock,  an Avery Fisher Hall concert with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra and special guest Jane Monheit, and various NY venues, like 92StY Tribeca, 55 Bar, Smalls Jazz Club.

Macbride has performed internationally at the Cayman Islands Arts Festival, a series of performances and clinics throughout Salvador, Brazil, at the Mendocino Arts Festival, and with the orchestra on board the Queen Mary II.

The Stanford Jazz Workshop has selected Jimmy for its prestigious Mentor Program for the summers of 2012 and 2013. Upcoming performances include at the Deerhead Inn in Pa. and in Conn. with the saxophonist Jimmy Greene.  

The quartet consists of Jimmy Macbride, drums; Steven Feifke,piano; Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, sax & Raviv Markovitz, bass.