Jojo Mayer the Nerve LIVE Aquarius, Zagreb

FULL DOWNLOAD Mayer is the son of a touring musician and began his career as a drummer at an early age, receiving his first drum set at the age of two. Having taught himself throughout his childhood, he broke out into the professional music scene at the age of 18, joining the Monty Alexander group. Touring with the group launched him into the major jazz music scene, and he has played at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux, Nice, and Athens etc. , which culminated with his gigging with jazzgreats such as Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone. Eventually, after playing with a great variety of artists, Mayer moved away from jazz and into Drum n Bass electronica. He is also famous for his ability to play the rhythms of programmed jungle drum n bass music on acoustic drums, terming this technique reverse engineering, a phrase borrowed from computing. He executes this approach using various methods such as the Heeltoe bass dr br, br,