NYC drummer Zach Adleman, has performed at Carnegie Hall, the 57th Annual Grammy Awards After Parties, and the Newport Jazz Festival, alongside jazz luminaries Wynton Marsalis, Rodney Whitaker, Mike LeDonne, Elio Villafranca, and Randy Brecker. Additionally, Zach received a GRAMMY for playing percussion on the song ""Water in Cupped Hands"", on Ted Nash's release, the ""Presidential Suite.”
As a scholarship recipient at Michigan State University, Zach was asked to join eminent trombonist Michael Dease's band and is featured on his 2018 album release, ""Reaching Out"" on Posi-Tone Records. The following year, Zach recorded a co-lead album entitled “One-Track Mind,” as part of the Becoming Quintet (featuring Michael Dease, Markus Howell, Eric Wortzman, Luther Allison, and Liany Mateo), which garnered reviews from JazzTimes and DownBeat magazine. ...
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NYC drummer Zach Adleman, has performed at Carnegie Hall, the 57th Annual Grammy Awards After Parties, and the Newport Jazz Festival, alongside jazz luminaries Wynton Marsalis, Rodney Whitaker, Mike LeDonne, Elio Villafranca, and Randy Brecker. Additionally, Zach received a GRAMMY for playing percussion on the song ""Water in Cupped Hands"", on Ted Nash's release, the ""Presidential Suite.”
As a scholarship recipient at Michigan State University, Zach was asked to join eminent trombonist Michael Dease's band and is featured on his 2018 album release, ""Reaching Out"" on Posi-Tone Records. The following year, Zach recorded a co-lead album entitled “One-Track Mind,” as part of the Becoming Quintet (featuring Michael Dease, Markus Howell, Eric Wortzman, Luther Allison, and Liany Mateo), which garnered reviews from JazzTimes and DownBeat magazine.
Zach has received honors including first prize at the 2017 J.C Heard National Drum Competition, and an invitation to perform with Igor Butman’s 2019 “Future of Jazz Concert” in Moscow, Russia.
Zach is from Montclair, New Jersey. He was born into a musical block, in a musical household. Growing up, not only are both of his parents musicians, his neighbors were too. He got first got his musical inspiration from listening to rock/metal music. Later, people on his block helped him prepare for his elementary school band audition into Drums of Thunder, under the direction of Louis D’Amico. For two years he performed at venues such as the U.S Open, Madison Square Garden, and MetLife Stadium in 4th/5th grade.
While in high school, Zach was extensively involved in many outstanding programs including Jazz House Kids and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra, which fostered his love for jazz music. While in college, Zach was selected to attend the JAS Aspen Academy led by Christian McBride, and the Ravinia workshop led by Rufus Reid and Billy Childs.
Zach considers teaching one of his true passions in life. Thus, he has served on faculty at the Jazz Institute @ Brevard; worked as a teaching assistant at Jazz House Kids; and currently teaches private lessons online and in person in the New York/New Jersey region.
Zach has a strong propensity for original music, seeking to interpret others, as well as his own. On November 14, 2021, Zach performed a set of all original music for Brave Sound Productions in Washington Heights. As a bandleader, he has led his own group at the Detroit Jazz Festival (ft. Rodney Whitaker), Maureen’s Jazz Cellar, the East Lansing Summer Solstice Jazz Festival, and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s curated “Fall for Arts Festival on Roosevelt Island.
In addition, Zach is passionate about the possibilities of collaborating with visual media- including scoring for film and dance. He wrote a short movie score for Olivier Coeffard, a student at the London Film School entitled “Lydia.” Additionally, he led a video project entitled “We Make”, combining two Juilliard dancers (Lindsay Phillips, Briana Del Mundo), a videographer, and a jazz quintet to speak on the pandemic. Additionally, Zach participated in two collaborative concert series’: ChoreoComp, and Jazz/Dance’s restart our stages in Damrosch park.
Zach has a BM in jazz performance from Michigan State University and a MM from the Juilliard School of Music in Jazz Performance. At Juilliard, Zach participated in the a Gluck fellowship, the Duke Ellington Artist Diploma Ensemble, and contributed to the Juilliard Journal.
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