Tom Rainey

Thomas "Tom" Rainey (born 1957, Santa Barbara,California) is an American drummer.

After attending Berklee College of Music he moved to New York in 1979. He has played with American jazz saxophonist and composer Tim Berne, and also with Nels Cline, Fred Hersch, Tony Malaby, Tom Varner, Drew Gress, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, and Simon Nabatov. A prolific session musician, he has appeared on close to eighty recordings over a career spanning over 25 years.

He released his own first album, Pool School (Clean Feed), in 2010.

Discography

As leader

  • Pool School (Clean Feed Records, 2010)
  • Camino Cielo Echo (Intakt Records, 2012)
  • Obbligato (Intakt Records, 2014)
  • Hotel Grief (Intakt Records, 2015)

    • As co-leader

    With Simon Nabatov & Nils Wogram

  • Nawora (Leo Records, 2012)

    • With Ralph Alessi, Kris Davis & Ingrid Laubrock

  • LARK (Skirl, 2013)

    • With Ingrid Laubrock

  • And Other Desert Towns (Relative Pitch, 2014)

    • As sideman

    With Tim Berne

  • Big Satan (Winter & Winter, 1997)
  • Please Advise (Screwgun, 1998)
  • Visitation Rites (Screwgun, 1998)
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    Nels Cline Is Not A Jazz Guitarist

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    He’s been working with drummer Tom Rainey for decades, first in a trio with accordionist and keyboardist Andrea Parkins and later in the Nels Cline 4, and was a member of bassist Chris Lightcap’s band Superette.
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