GERALD CLEAVER

Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop / Avant-Garde Jazz / Post Bop / Jazz Related Improv/Composition / 21st Century Modern • United States
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Born May 4, 1963 and raised in Detroit, Gerald Cleaver is a product of the city’s rich music tradition. Inspired by his father, drummer John Cleaver, he began playing the drums at an early age. He also played violin in elementary school, and trumpet in junior high school and high school. As a teenager he gained invaluable experience playing with Detroit jazz masters Ali Muhammad Jackson, Lamont Hamilton, Earl Van Riper, and Pancho Hagood. While attending the University of Michigan as a music education major, he was awarded a Jazz Study Grant, from the National Endowment for the Arts, to study with drummer Victor Lewis. He graduated in 1992 and began teaching in Detroit where he worked with Rodney Whitaker, A. Spencer Barefield, Marcus Belgrave, Donald Walden, Wendell Harrison, and with visiting musicians Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, Kenny Burrell, Frank Foster, Cecil Bridgewater, Ray Bryant, Eddie Harris, Dennis read more...
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GERALD CLEAVER Gerald Cleaver, Veil Of Names ‎: Adjust album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerald Cleaver, Veil Of Names ‎: Adjust
Avant-Garde Jazz 2001
GERALD CLEAVER Gerald Cleaver's Detroit album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerald Cleaver's Detroit
Post Bop 2007
GERALD CLEAVER Be It As I See It album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Be It As I See It
21st Century Modern 2010
GERALD CLEAVER Signs album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Signs
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2020
GERALD CLEAVER Gerald Cleaver / Stephen Gauci : Pandemic Duets album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerald Cleaver / Stephen Gauci : Pandemic Duets
Avant-Garde Jazz 2020
GERALD CLEAVER Griots album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Griots
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2021
GERALD CLEAVER Fred Moten / Brandon Lopez / Gerald Cleaver album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fred Moten / Brandon Lopez / Gerald Cleaver
Avant-Garde Jazz 2022
GERALD CLEAVER Gerald Cleaver, Brandon Lopez : the cleanly violence of many album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerald Cleaver, Brandon Lopez : the cleanly violence of many
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2022
GERALD CLEAVER Gerald Cleaver / Brandon Lopez / Hprizm : In The Wilderness album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerald Cleaver / Brandon Lopez / Hprizm : In The Wilderness
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2023
GERALD CLEAVER 22 / 23 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
22 / 23
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2023
GERALD CLEAVER The Process album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Process
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2024

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GERALD CLEAVER Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour : Live At Firehouse 12 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gerald Cleaver & Violet Hour : Live At Firehouse 12
Post Bop 2019

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