Jimmy Macbride

Jimmy Macbride (born May 10, 1991) is an American jazz drummer and composer. He is the older brother of jazz pianist, composer and film maker Alma Macbride.

Biography

Raised in West Hartford, Connecticut, Macbride grew up in an artistic family—his father a composer of classical music and his mother a visual artist. He developed an early interest in jazz from listening to his parents' cassettes of Frank Sinatra and began to perform professionally while in the third grade. In 2009, he relocated to New York City to study at the Juilliard School. Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Chase Baird, and Lucas Pino, and Adam Rogers, pianist David Virelles and others.

Together with his sister Alma Macbride, Jimmy has given concerts throughout the greater Hartford, Connecticut area at senior citizen homes and other similar venues. The duo donated all proceeds to the Whiting Lane School to aid in the purchase of musical instruments and other equipment.

Discography

As sideman

Album artist Title Year Label Luke Sellick Alchemist 2017 Cellar Live Alex Wintz Life Cycle 2017 Culture Shock Paul Jones Clean 2017 Outside In Music Dan Wilkins Ensemble Jnana-Vijnana (Awake) 2015 Minsi Ridge Records Steven Feifke Peace in Time 2015 Nick Finzer The Chase 2015 Origin Records Clovis Nicolas Nine Stories 2014 Sunnyside Records