Herlin Riley

Herlin Riley ( * February 15, 1957 in New Orleans) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

Herlin Riley grew up in New Orleans up in a musical family and began with three years of playing the drums. Later he studied trumpet during his high school years, but focused on the drums, From 1984 to 1987, Riley was a member of the band of Ahmad Jamal; In 1988 he came - as the successor to Jeff Tain Watts - the band of Wynton Marsalis, with whom he regularly went on tour and on recordings such as The Majesty of the Blues ( 1988), Blue Interlude ( 1992) and Blood on the Fields ( 1994). Riley remained until 1994, when Marsalis; he worked next to the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. In addition, he contributed to recordings by Marcus Roberts, Dr. John, Harry Connick, Jr., George Benson, Bennie Wallace and Mark Whitfield. He also played in numerous theater productions and performances, such as One Mo 'Time and Satchmo: America 's Musical Legend.

In 2000 they created the album Watch What We're Doing on the Criss Cross label, with Ryan Kisor, Wycliffe Gordon, Victor Goines, Furid Barron and Rodney Whitaker, followed by the album Cream of the Crescent ( Criss Cross, 2004) with Wynton Marsalis, Victor Goines and Wycliffe Gordon.

Riley works regularly at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and as a teacher of percussion in the jazz studies program at the School of Music in bees from Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois ).