Jamey Haddad

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Jamey George Haddad (born Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 1952) is an American percussionist working primarily in the fields of jazz and world music, and specializing in hand drums of many types. He lived in New York City for many years but in the early 21st century relocated to Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Haddad is of Lebanese ancestry, and began at the age of four to pick up Lebanese percussion instruments, such as the goblet drum, from his family, also playing the drum set. He later studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

He studied Carnatic music with Ramnad Raghavan for five years, then received a Fulbright Fellowship, which allowed him to study Indian drums, including the kanjira, in South India for one more year. He has also received four National Endowment for the Arts fellowships to pursue jazz and international studies and collaborations.

Haddad has performed with Paul Simon, the Paul Winter Consort, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Alan Farnham, Carly Simon, Betty Buckley, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Simon Shaheen, Trichy Sankaran, Osvaldo Golijov, Nguyên Lê, Steve Shehan, Elliot Goldenthal, Sergio and Odair Assad, Daniel Schnyder, Nancy Wilson, The Wayfaring Strangers, and Steve Gadd. He appears on more than 150 recordings.

He is a part-time associate professor at the Berklee College of Music[1] and a visiting associate professor of percussion at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.[2] He was appointed a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2005.[3]