Elliot Jacobson
Elliot Benjamin Jacobson is an American drummer, songwriter and producer. He is the producer and cowriter of Vérité.[1] He plays drums for the New York-based singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson. He also plays drums for Jenny Owen Youngs,[2] Elle King, Emily Kinney, and Wakey! Wakey!.
Elliot was born in Houston, TX and moved as a teen to Buffalo, NY. Elliot started playing drums in his middle school band, later playing with A New Easy Way. It was while Elliot was attending Wagner College on Staten Island, NY that he met Ingrid Michaelson and her bassist Chris Kuffner. Ingrid invited Elliot to play drums on her first album Slow The Rain.[3] He later played drums on Girls and Boys, Be Ok, Everybody, Human Again, Lights Out and other separate releases.[4]
Elliot has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America, The Rachael Ray Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, The CBS Early Show and others.[5]
Elliot uses Vater drumsticks, Yamaha Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Evans Drumheads and Gator Cases.[5]
Elliot has performed live with Regina Spektor,[6] Anya Marina, Katie Costello, Greg Holden, David Garza, and many, many others.[5]
As a popular session drummer, Elliot has recorded with Emily Kinney, Greg Laswell, The Vamps, A Great Big World, Lenka, April Smith,[7] Dan Romer, Hayley Taylor, Nick Howard, Samantha Ronson, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Abigail Breslin, Allison Weiss, Jay Stolar, He is We and many, many others.
In 2010, Elliot was voted as #1 Up and Coming Drummer in the Modern Drummer Magazine's Readers Poll.[8]
When he is not touring, Elliot currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.[3]
References
- ↑ "The Windish Agency"
- ↑ "Modern Drummer Online Blog"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Indie Sided Blog Interview"
- ↑ "All Music Guide"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Sabian Cymbals Artist Profile"
- ↑ Spektor Fan Site"
- ↑ "April Smith and the Great Picture Show"
- ↑ Modern Drummer Magazine, July 2010, page 22