MIKE CLARK gained worldwide recognition as one of America’s foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock’s group in the early 1970’s. Mike became known as a major innovator through his incisive playing on Hancock’s Thrust album, which garnered him an international cult following.
Rob Dixon the VP of Owl Studios, part owner of Indy Jazz Fest Dixon has released two albums on the label with himself as bandleader: What Things Could Be in 2006 and Reinvention: The Dixon-Rhyne Project in 2008. On the latter album, Dixon collaborates with legendary jazz organist Melvin Rhyne, known for playing with T-Bone Walker and Wes Montgomery, among others. Rob is often featured as a sideman with other Owl Studios recording artists, including Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets, the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Cynthia Layne, Steve Allee, Mike Clark, and The Headhunters. He can frequently be heard around Indianapolis at The Jazz Kitchen and the Chatterbox jazz clubs. His composition (with Raeford Gerald) Bump ‘N From The Middle is on the compilation Act 1on Southbound, Ace Records (UK) Tony Adamo’s CD’s, STRAIGHT UP DEAL and WHAT IS HIP? is distributed by Doc Kupka’s (co-founder of Tower of Power) Strokeland Records.
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Below is a video from the session:
