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Mark Mahoney:

Drummer/Bassist CT-USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark’s extensive experience as a drummer has included a wide variety of groups such as:  Caribbean Steel bands, Big Bands, Jazz trios/Quartets, Funk Bands, Rock Bands and musicals.

Mark can currently be heard around CT playing with the following bands:

• On bass with the “Jusdon Jazz Quartet.
• Drumming for the “Good Fella’s Duo” Rock & Roll of the 50’s & 60’s  Facebook: Good Fellas Duo
• Drumming for the Latin/Funk band “Ice-Fire” 

Check out the “Performances” link at the top of the page to catch any of these bands. 

Recording drums: During the last ten plus years Mark has been recording drums remotely for various artists.. All drum tracks found in the discography section have been recorded and mixed by Mark. The final mixes were that of the artist or engineer. 

Such an example can be heard below in David Quinn’s beautiful tribute to our former band mate.

If your next gig or recording requires a live drummer with extensive recording and performance experience, contact Mark via the link at the top of this page. 

 Mark’s back ground includes degrees from both University Of Miami (BME) and the University of Tennessee (MM in Jazz Studies).

Bass: Out of misfortune arises opportunity…

 

March 2015: a serious car accident and subsequent surgery on Mark’s leg kept him off the drum kit for a while. Having always wanted to learn bass he decided to use the downtime to act on his long time desire. Nine months later he played his first gig of many gigs with “Rounding Third” a local classic rock band. 

A few years later other bands followed; one which can be heard here:

 

Part II:  

“Studies With Todd Johnson” 

The next several years included studies with renown player/educator Todd Johnson. This in turn lead to my current gig with the “Judson Jazz Quartet” which is featured at the top of this column

 

MIDI Mallet UNO:

Archived…for now 😉

 

MIDI Mallet Uno is Mark’s  solo mallet percussion project. This exciting project features Mark on a mallet controller accessing a large array of acoustic and synth sounds. While Mark’s controller looks like an electric xylophone, it rarely sounds as such. It functions as a bass, piano, horn or synthesizer. Playing style from Jazz/Fusion to Latin to Rock. These sounds and textures are accompanied by triggered loops and backing tracks. The end result is a solo musician that sounds like a multitude of bands all sharing the same stage.

“I don’t get it, what instrument is he playing” (overheard at a gig).

Answer: Hundreds of different instruments. See below for a tour of Mark’s MIDI mallet rig

 

Mark Mahoney