Dave Jamrog appears locally and internationally with funk, rock, soul, blues and jazz bands including Five Time W. C. Handy Award nominee Toni Lynn Washington and international sensation, Sherman Robertson a Texas guitar slinging, funk and bluesman.



Dave toured with Grammy Award nominee Mighty Sam McClain, and has been known to join Berklee College of Music faculty pianist Mark Shilansky on recordings and concerts. For many years Dave has also been a leader of his own bands, The Miller David Jamrog Jazz Group and Visions, a collaborative performance project with other prominent jazz players in the New York/Boston area...



Miller David Jamrog, was born into a musical family of teachers and began

playing music before he could read words on a page. Dave's father, Miller

Joseph Jamrog, played with touring bands in the 60's and 70’s like The

Pointer Sisters and The Temptations. He arranged for son Davey to meet with

Alan Dawson (the late Boston area master and Tony Williams' mentor, played with Dave Brubeck) at age 14, and not long after, Bob Gullotti (explosive free jazz pioneer of The Fringe and guest soloist for Phish). Both gave freely and selflessly their knowledge, inspiration and advice.



In 1991, legendary trumpeter Clark Terry discovered drummer Dave Jamrog

while on music scholarship at the University of New Hampshire. With the help of David Seiler, Clark invited Dave to play at a series of festivals and concerts across the country, including the Clark Terry Jazz festivals, at U. Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma City and The Clark Terry Institute of Jazz, Teikyo-Westmar University, Souix City, Iowa.



A highlight of this time was a

week on Norwegian Cruise Line's Floating Jazz Festival with Dizzy Gillespie in the U.S.Virgin Islands (1991), and two shows with Clark in 1994 at The International Association Of Jazz Educators Conference in Boston, MA.



This allowed him to share the stage with not only the great Clark Terry, but other jazz greats as Phil Woods, Snooky Young, the late Count Basie Band alums Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham, Red Rodney, Marshall Royal, Al Grey, Louis Bellson, Marvin Stamm, Bernard Purdie, Ed Shaughnessy, John Faddis and Arturo Sandoval.



It was a seamless transition for Dave from student to professional

musician since his professional music career began long before college, but

his first self produced CD, Visions,(1996), a collaboration with Mark

Shilansky, Thomson Kneeland and George Garzone, began to solidify his own

place in the drumming world. The new partnership with Berklee Faculty

pianist Mark Shilansky was a vehicle for hosting prominent players in music

today, such as the aforementioned Downbeat Magazine Five Star Winner George Garzone (of the Fringe and Joe Lovano Nonet), former Blue Note recording artist Jerry Bergonzi, Grammy Award Nominee Luciana Souza, Andrew Rathbun, Taylor Haskins, Herb Pomeroy, Bill Pierce, John Damian and Charlie Kohlhase.



Now Dave can be seen regularly touring Nationally and Internationally

with Grammy Award Nominee Mighty Sam McClain, know for his recordings on

Crosscut, AudioQuest and Telarc Record labels, WC Handy Award Nominee Toni

Lynn Washington, whose background includes Sam & Dave, Jackie Wilson and

Bobby Blue Bland, WC Handy Award Nominee Sherman Robertson, also on

AudioQuest and Alligator records (plus a track on Paul Simon's Graceland

Album 1997) and with his own band, the Miller David Jamrog Jazz Group. (CD

Visions, 1998)



Since 1995 Dave has been teaching performance drums to student drummers both young and old, hopefully inspiring future generations of musicians to play

good, creative music. He now lives in Jamaica Plain, MA, with his beautiful wife, Vanessa Holroyd, a National Flute Association Award Winner (Young Artist NFAC 2002 and Best Flute Performance NFAC 2002)...