Jeff Ballard

Jeff Ballard is an American jazz drummer. He has performed with Ray Charles and Pat Metheny, and periodically with Chick Corea, in groups such as Origin and the Chick Corea New Trio. He also played with many New York–based jazz musicians, such as Reid Anderson, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Miguel Zenón, and Eli Degibri, as well as with the Joshua Redman Elastic Band. He has been a member of the Brad Mehldau Trio since 2005, a co-leader of Fly, and leads the Jeff Ballard Trio and Jeff Ballard Fairgrounds. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ba...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)