Terry Bozzio
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| Birth name | Terry John Bozzio | |
| Born | December 27, 1950 San Francisco, California, USA |
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| Genre(s) | Rock, Jazz | |
| Occupation(s) | Musician | |
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| Years active | 1975 – Present | |
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Terry John Bozzio (born December 27, 1950, San Francisco, California) is an American drummer.
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[edit] Biography
Bozzio was born in San Francisco, California to Italian American parents. He attended Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California, where he received a music scholarship in 1969. He made his name recording and touring with Frank Zappa (and appearing in the concert movie Baby Snakes), and then the band UK. After his audition for Zappa, all the drummers behind him in the line left, and he was accepted. He was particularly famous for performing Zappa's "The Black Page", a piece of music designed to be a "musician's nightmare" a page so filled with notes as to be almost black. He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Ev and son Raanen Bozzio.
Bozzio went on to form Missing Persons with his then-wife and lead vocalist Dale Bozzio, ex-Zappa guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, ex-Zappa bassist Patrick O'Hearn and keyboard player Chuck Wild.
Bozzio was inducted into Guitar Center's RockWalk in Hollywood on January 17, 2006 along with rock and roll icons Ronnie James Dio and Slash.
During this time, Bozzio is working the band Korn on their 8th studio album after the temporary departure of their drummer David Silveria. He'll also be hitting the road with Korn as they go on tour this summer.
[edit] Musical innovation
Bozzio is noted for creating the melodic ostinato for the drum set. In most of Bozzio’s works the ostinato is played using various bass drum and hi-hat permutations while he solos against these rhythms using his hands. Bozzio developed the application for the melodic ostinato for drum set when he noticed how a pianist would solo or play counter rhythms against the ostinato. He then applied this concept to the drum set.
Bozzio is also noted for creating orchestral compositions on the drum set by playing polyrhythms and polymeter while utilizing his large custom Drum Workshop kit, in which the tom toms are tuned to specific notes to create the atmosphere that is Bozzio’s signature sound. Terry Bozzio’s influence has been seen in some of the most prominent drummers of today including Marco Minnemann, Thomas Lang, and Mike Mangini.
Bozzio’s influence is becoming a more prominent force as modern day drummers are seeking to break the barriers of the traditional grooving drummer to the drummer that takes a more prominent role as the leader of a band, a position that in westernized music has been dominated by the guitar.
[edit] Selected discography
[edit] Solo
- Solo Drum Music I/II & III
- Drawing The Circle
- Chamber Works
- Solos & Duets (with Chad Wackerman)
- Nine Short Films (with Billy Sheehan)
- Chamber Works (2005, with Metropole Orchestra)
[edit] Frank Zappa
- Bongo Fury
- Zoot Allures
- Live In New York
- Sheik Yerbouti
- FZ:OZ
- Sleep Dirt
[edit] Missing Persons
- Missing Persons (EP)
- Spring Session M
- Rhyme & Reason
- Color In Your Life
[edit] UK
- Danger Money
- Night After Night
[edit] Other
- David Torn, Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio
- Polytown
- Black Light Syndrome
- Situation Dangerous
- Guitar Shop
- Sex and Religion
- Two Sides Of If
- Zoom
[edit] External links
- Terry Bozzio – Official site
- Terry Bozzio : Sabian Cymbals - Artist Set-up
- Drum Workshop site, artists section : Contains an illustration of Terry Bozzio and other drummers' drum kits
