Mat Marucci

Jazz drummer Mat Marucci works as a solo recording artist, bandleader, session musician, and instructor. He entered the world on July 2, 1945, in Rome, NY. Over the course of his career he has shared stages with Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, James Moody, Eddie Harris, Buddy DeFranco, Les McCann, Bobby Shew, Don Menza, John Tchicai, and numerous other leading figures. Since 1979 he has released solo albums under his own name, among them Who Do Voo Doo, Festival, Lifeline, Extensity, Avant Bop, Body and Soul, and Ulterior Motif. Beyond his work in the studio and on the bandstand, Marucci has written multiple instructional drumming volumes for Lewis Music and Mel Bay Publications, contributed pieces to Modern Drummer magazine, the Percussive Arts Society’s Percussive Notes and Percussion News, Pro-Mark’s Upstrokes, and the online publication Cyber-Drum, and serves as an adjunct professor at American River College in Sacramento, CA. In 2002 Mel Bay Publications issued his second book for the company, Drumstick Finger Systems and Techniques.