Jim White is an Australian drummer, and the longtime drummer for the musical group Dirty Three. Formed in Melbourne, the band now reside in different continents with Jim White reportedly residing in New York at present.
As well as his work with Dirty Three, Jim White also plays with a number of other groups, including;
* Tren Brothers, consisting of Jim White and Mick Turner
* Boxhead Ensemble, a musical collaboration including Jim O'Rourke, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Mick Turner, amongst others.
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Cat Power as member of the Dirty Delta Blues
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Smog (Bill Callahan)
* White Magic, plays drums live with this New York based group from time to time, having recorded on their debut record.
* Essie Jain, drums on this New York singer songwriter's record We Made This Ourselves.
* Has played live with Nina Nastasia since 2003 and on her albums Run to Ruin and On Leaving. In 2007 the collaborative album You Follow Me was released under the name Nina Nastasia and Jim White.
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PJ Harvey's album White Chalk
* C.W.Stoneking's 2008 album Jungle Blues
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Marianne Faithful's 2008 album, Easy Come, Easy Go
PJ Harvey has compared him to a ballet dancer—but in the vastness of the Garden’s backstage, the drums sound thunderous.
The Melbourne native and current Brooklynite, who first came to note in the mid-’90s with the instrumental trio Dirty Three, has become the most in-demand drummer in town.
In addition to Cat Power (with whom he has played off and on for a decade) and Harvey (who employed him on her new album, White Chalk), White has performed with everyone from Nick Cave to local psych-folk band White Magic. Those who play with White speak of him with the ardor of religious converts. “Drummers are one thing and Jim is another,” Will Oldham says. “He takes a song apart, element by element, and then rebuilds it with his parts incorporated.
In an e-mail, Joanna Newsom writes that White “drums like somebody who is working with pitches as well as rhythm. He’s definitely a virtuoso player. He can cling, with a palpable, high-stakes looseness and gorgeous blind faith, to the downbeat, sounding for a moment like he’s dropped his sticks before resolving into shockingly metronomic precision.”
Nina Nastasia and Jim White - Odd Said The Doe
LISTEN/WATCH HERE...
Now, for the first time in a long and varied career, White receives cobilling on an album: You Follow Me, a series of duets with local singer Nina Nastasia. “Nina was playing a ballad and it got me thinking about the drums,” White says, sitting in the Cupcake Café in Hell’s Kitchen hours before his Garden debut. “I wanted to see if they could fill the same role and emotions that strings and stuff normally would. It could be very subtle and still, but in the starkness you could hear what I was doing.”
via; time out new york...
note; White and the Dirty three have always been influenced by The Bad Seeds , in particular White's drumming and Mick Harvey. Still, in my opinion, he's moved on with his own style and nobody around has it. From a stoned
burlesQue sloppyness to groove based orchestral busyness, and all seems to work.
White is the man in demand for now as just years ago it was Joey Warnoker, during his Beck days. Warnoker was different though, as a much more polished studio man, while White just knows how to keep his own style in every band he plays in.
Listening to him play.... around the corner there is always a pleasant surprise.
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EDIT! I've corrected this post via a comment. Seems I was wrong as to White's involvement on Callahan's new Lp( Sometimes I wish I were an Eagle). My apologies.
Thanks for the heads up.
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Jim White is an Australian drummer, and the longtime drummer for the musical group Dirty Three. Formed in Melbourne, the band now reside in different continents with Jim White reportedly residing in New York at present.
As well as his work with Dirty Three, Jim White also plays with a number of other groups, including;
* Tren Brothers, consisting of Jim White and Mick Turner
* Boxhead Ensemble, a musical collaboration including Jim O'Rourke, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Mick Turner, amongst others.
* Cat Power as member of the Dirty Delta Blues
* Smog (Bill Callahan)
* White Magic, plays drums live with this New York based group from time to time, having recorded on their debut record.
* Essie Jain, drums on this New York singer songwriter's record We Made This Ourselves.
* Has played live with Nina Nastasia since 2003 and on her albums Run to Ruin and On Leaving. In 2007 the collaborative album You Follow Me was released under the name Nina Nastasia and Jim White.
* PJ Harvey's album White Chalk
* C.W.Stoneking's 2008 album Jungle Blues
* Marianne Faithful's 2008 album, Easy Come, Easy Go
PJ Harvey has compared him to a ballet dancer—but in the vastness of the Garden’s backstage, the drums sound thunderous.
The Melbourne native and current Brooklynite, who first came to note in the mid-’90s with the instrumental trio Dirty Three, has become the most in-demand drummer in town.
In addition to Cat Power (with whom he has played off and on for a decade) and Harvey (who employed him on her new album, White Chalk), White has performed with everyone from Nick Cave to local psych-folk band White Magic. Those who play with White speak of him with the ardor of religious converts. “Drummers are one thing and Jim is another,” Will Oldham says. “He takes a song apart, element by element, and then rebuilds it with his parts incorporated.
In an e-mail, Joanna Newsom writes that White “drums like somebody who is working with pitches as well as rhythm. He’s definitely a virtuoso player. He can cling, with a palpable, high-stakes looseness and gorgeous blind faith, to the downbeat, sounding for a moment like he’s dropped his sticks before resolving into shockingly metronomic precision.”
Nina Nastasia and Jim White - Odd Said The Doe LISTEN/WATCH HERE...
Now, for the first time in a long and varied career, White receives cobilling on an album: You Follow Me, a series of duets with local singer Nina Nastasia. “Nina was playing a ballad and it got me thinking about the drums,” White says, sitting in the Cupcake Café in Hell’s Kitchen hours before his Garden debut. “I wanted to see if they could fill the same role and emotions that strings and stuff normally would. It could be very subtle and still, but in the starkness you could hear what I was doing.”
via; time out new york...
note; White and the Dirty three have always been influenced by The Bad Seeds , in particular White's drumming and Mick Harvey. Still, in my opinion, he's moved on with his own style and nobody around has it. From a stoned burlesQue sloppyness to groove based orchestral busyness, and all seems to work.
White is the man in demand for now as just years ago it was Joey Warnoker, during his Beck days. Warnoker was different though, as a much more polished studio man, while White just knows how to keep his own style in every band he plays in.
Listening to him play.... around the corner there is always a pleasant surprise.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
EDIT! I've corrected this post via a comment. Seems I was wrong as to White's involvement on Callahan's new Lp( Sometimes I wish I were an Eagle). My apologies.
Thanks for the heads up.
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