Jim Black is an American jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas. He attended Berklee College of Music.

Career

His band AlasNoAxis includes Hilmar Jensson on electric guitar, Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clarinet, and Skúli Sverrisson on bass guitar. The music is in some ways closer to post-rock than jazz, concentrating on rhythmic shifts and ensemble texture rather than featured solos. Since 2000 Winter & Winter has released several of the band's albums. Pachora includes Black, Speed, Sverrisson, and Brad Shepik on tambura and electric saz. This band plays music that is rhythmically diverse and inspired by Balkan rhythms. Black participated as drummer 12 in the Boredoms 77 Boadrum performance on July 7, 2007 at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York. He is also one-third of the group BBC (Berne/Black/Cline) with alto saxophonist Berne and Nels Cline of Wilco. The group released the album The Veil in 2011.

Discography

As leader

With AlasNoAxis

With the Jim Black Trio

With Jim & The Schrimps

As co-leader

With Human Feel With BB&C

As sideman

With Tim Berne With Carlos Bica With Uri Caine With Dave Douglas With Ellery Eskelin With Chris Speed With Pachora With Endangered Blood With Peter Evans With Satoko Fujii With Hilmar Jensson With David Liebman With Ben Monder With others