A Trinidad-born, Toronto-based percussionist. Check out http://www.derekthorne.net for a fair idea.
I play regularly with Kobo Town , Moka , Ballet Creole , and various other jazz and Black diasporic artists.
No, smarty-pants, I didn't say "Black diasporic" to be intellectual-sounding. Some artists who play Black music aren't Black. So "Black artists" would have been misleading.
That is me playing congas on "Mangoes," the track you're hearing; and by all means check out the video of my short solo on jembe with Kobo Town below. I am striving for percussive bilingualism (congas & jembe: 2 completely different idioms and techniques; if you didn't know, now you know). Not there yet, but it's hard work, horse!
