Adam Bryan Clark has had the pleasure of working with such great musicians as Stanley Jordan, accordion master Frank Marocco, Papa John DeFrancesco, David “Fathead” Newman, Mike Crotty, Richard Todd, Raul Yanez, DJ Radar, El Chicano, Brice Winston, Catalin Rotaru, Michael Kocour, Nicole Pesce, Wah!, Dennis Rowland, Nick Manson and Billy Mitchell.
Adam is a performer first that thrives in live concert settings and studio work. With over 27 years of experience, he has been a professional musician since 1995 and has consistently led his own jazz groups since 1998.
ADAM BRYAN CLARK
He has been heard opening up for Joey DeFrancesco, Blues Traveler, Alice Cooper, Bernard Allison, Big Pete Pearson and Angelique Kidjo.
Adam has been honored to sit in and perform live with George Benson, Joey DeFrancesco, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, Jesse McGuire, Wes “Warm Daddy” Anderson, Marcus Printup, Andre Hayward and Wycliffe Gordon.
I moved (to southern California from Phoenix) to have a change of scenery and WEATHER! Phoenix is good to me and there i received a lot of music schooling (ASU, MCC) as well as over 10,000 hours of on the job training, working with most of the best musicians AZ has to offer.
College is where I learned the mindset of a musician, the reality of the importance of mentality. There my biggest focus was the performing groups and soaking up from my favorite teachers how to present music to an audience. I never graduated college but got 7 years of performance training/experience there and am very thankful to all my teachers for helping me grow.
Since moving to southern California in June 2012 I have had the distinct honor of working with world class musicians Randy Tico, Lenny Castro, Marshall Hawkins, John B. Williams, Rachel Flowers, Brad Rabuchin, Doug Webb, Jimmy Vivino, Coco Montoya, Granville ‘Danny’ Young and Bevan Manson.
For the last 13 years on almost every sunday i played in churches at 2-3 different services and congregations, having had the pleasure to play Gospel, Jazz, Christian Rock, Contemporary and Traditional worship music.
Over the years I did a little traveling to perform but mostly was real consistent locally having the opportunity to push myself daily within different musical situations.
Adam Clark was introduced to music while in the womb as his Mom played the piano and sang. She taught her three children to sing as toddlers. Without really knowing it, Adam received valuable ear training very early on and he compares this to growing up in a bilingual household.
Learning something well that early on sticks with you for life. This separates him from many other drummers with a less melodic ear. He went on to take a few years of piano lessons before switching to the drums at the age of 11 while living in Frankfurt, Germany.
At this time he began taking lessons with his Father’s (a career army band director) drummers. Adam went to school for jazz performance at Mesa Community College and Arizona State University.
