skip walker

Skip Walker is a drummer, songwriter, producer, and music educator who prides himself on embracing all musical genres. He has recorded and performed with The Fatback Band, Israel Houghton, saxophonist Bubba Brooks, Saxophonist Ed Jackson (29th Street Saxophone Quartet), Trumpeter Ray Codrington (JFK Quintet), and many others. Born in North Carolina, Skip got his start when vibraphonist Malachi Sharpe took him under his wing at the age of 12 and began to give him drum lessons. By the age of 14, Skip was playing in clubs around the Carolinas, and just three years later, drummer/band leader Bill Curtis of the legendary New York funk group “The Fatback Band” invited Skip to New York to hold down the drum chair. Skip would do several European tours with Fatback before getting the itch to further his education. Skip then journeyed to Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music where he won the Leonard Feather Scholarship award, studied with renowned drummers Ed Uribe and John Ramsay, and earned a bachelors degree in just three years - He would later go on to earn a masters degree in church music/theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. Skip is currently in the studio with his Jazz/Funk band entitled "Macrorhythm" finishing up his first CD as a bandleader. The project will feature Guitarist Joe Lindsay (Calvin Richardson, K-Ci and JoJo), veteran jazz trumpeter Ray Codrington (JFK Quintet, Eddie Harris), Pianist Elmer Gibson (Norman Connors), Saxophonist Ziad, Flutist Mike Wallace, and many others.Skip is a professor of music and Religion at Methodist University in North Carolina, and a doctoral student at Boston University - He proudly endorses DC California Drums, Soultone Cymbals, and Silverfox Percussion.