Ches Smith
From San Diego
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Last show in the Netherlands: November 14, 2026 at Cinetol, Amsterdam.
About
Ches Smith is the kind of drummer who ends up on a staggering number of records you actually want to hear. His own work runs from solo percussion pieces on Congs for Brums to the trio album The Bell on ECM, with Craig Taborn and Mat Maneri, and he has fronted groups like These Arches and We All Break along the way. He also released Noise to Men in 2010 and, more recently, Interpret It Well, Laugh Ash and Clone Row. As a sideman, his CV is wild. He has played on a long run of albums with Tim Berne, plenty of John Zorn releases on Tzadik, and records with Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Mary Halvorson, David Torn, Dave Holland and Secret Chiefs 3. He even toured with Mr. Bungle back in 1999. Before that, he studied composition, improvisation and percussion with names like Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, William Winant and Alvin Curran, which helps explain how comfortably he moves between free jazz and everything around it.
