Herlin Riley

ABOUT HERLIN RILEY

Jazz drummer who is part of the New York Jazz Group and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He has also worked as a music lecturer.

He started playing the drums when he was three years old. He studied trumpet for most of high school and college, but went back to the drums later.

He taught at music composition at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University.

He was born in New Orleans.

He has performed with Harry Connick Jr.