Tom Rainey

Tom Rainey
Rainey performing Faux Faux at The Cinema, West Philadelphia, 30 July 2006
Background information
Born	1957 Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Genres	Avant-garde jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Drums
Years active	1980s – present
Labels	Screwgun, Clean Feed, Marge

Tom Rainey, Moers Festival 2012

Tom Rainey (born 1957) is an American jazz drummer.

Career

After attending Berklee College of Music he moved to New York in 1979. He has played with Tim Berne, Nels Cline, Drew Gress, Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Tony Malaby, Simon Nabatov, Tom Varner, and Kenny Werner.

Rainey worked with Berne in the 1990s and 2000s in the bands Big Satan, Hard Cell, Paraphrase, and Science Friction. After thirty years as a sideman, he released his first album, Pool School (Clean Feed, 2010) in a trio with guitarist Mary Halvorson and his wife, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock.

Discography

As leader

• Pool School (Clean Feed, 2010)
• Camino Cielo Echo (Intakt, 2012)
• Obbligato (Intakt, 2014)
• Hotel Grief (Intakt, 2015)
• Float Upstream (Intakt, 2017)
• Combobulated (Intakt, 2019)
• Untucked In Hannover (Intakt, 2021)

As co-leader

With Simon Nabatov & Nils Wogram

• Nawora (Leo, 2012)

With Ralph Alessi, Kris Davis & Ingrid Laubrock

• LARK (Skirl, 2013)

With Ingrid Laubrock

• And Other Desert Towns (Relative Pitch, 2014)
• Buoyancy (Relative Pitch, 2016)
• Utter (Relative Pitch, 2018)

As sideman

With Ray Anderson

• Big Band Record (Gramavision, 1994) with the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band

With Tim Berne

• Visitation Rites (Screwgun), 1997)
• Big Satan (Winter & Winter, 1997)
• Please Advise (Screwgun, 1999)
• The Shell Game (Thirsty Ear, 2001)
• Science Friction (Screwgun, 2002)
• The Sublime And (Thirsty Ear, 2003)
• Souls Saved Hear (Thirsty Ear, 2004)
• Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live (Screwgun, 2004)
• Feign (Screwgun, 2005)
• Pre-Emptive Denial (Screwgun, 2005)
• Livein Cognito (Screwgun, 2006)

With Nels Cline

• Currents, Constellations (Blue Note, 2018)

With Kris Davis

• Good Citizen (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2010)
• Capricorn Climber (Clean Feed, 2013)
• Waiting for You to Grow (Clean Feed, 2014)

With Mark Feldman

• What Exit (ECM, 2006)

With Ronan Guilfoyle

• Hands (Portmanteau, 2015)

With Ingrid Laubrock

• Sleepthief (Intakt, 2008)
• Anti-House (Intakt, 2010)
• The Madness of Crowds (Intakt, 2011)
• Strong Place (Intakt, 2013)
• Zurich Concert (Intakt, 2014)
• Roulette of the Cradle (Intakt, 2015)
• Ubatuba (Firehouse 12, 2015)

With Myra Melford

• The October Revolution (Evidence, 1996) featured on one track

With Liam Noble

• Romance Among the Fishes (Basho, 2004)

With Samo Salamon

• Two Hours (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2006)
• Almost Almond (Sanje, 2011)
• Duality (Samo Records, 2012)

With David Torn

• Prezens (ECM, 2005)

With Tom Varner

• The Mystery of Compassion (Soul Note, 1992)
• Martian Heartache (Soul Note, 1996)

With Roseanna Vitro

• Reaching for the Moon (Chase Music Group, 1991)
• Softly (Concord Jazz, 1993)

With Jane Ira Bloom

• Modern Drama (Columbia, 1987)
• Slalom (Columbia, 1988)

External links

• Allaboutjazz Tom Rainey interview