Tom Rainey — Drums, Percussion. Played on Modern Drama, Slalom, Forward Motion. Worked with Fred Hersch, Drew Gress, Rich Perry.
Tom Rainey's albums
Passion Flower-The Music Of Billy Strayhorn
Fred Hersch · 1996
Softly
Roseanna Vitro · 1993
Forward Motion
Fred Hersch Group, The · 1991
American Love Song
Dick Sisto · 1995
Tom Rainey's name now travels with free improvisation. But the paper trail here runs the other way: from Forward Motion (1991) to Passion Flower (1996), it is mostly standards work in Fred Hersch's group — the avant-garde drummer's documented decade is a piano trio.
