Arnold Young

Arnold Young plays drum set and miscellaneous instruments. He studied music at UMKC Conservatory of Music and West African Percussion at U.C. Berkeley. He has performed with Sonny Simmons, Jaco Pastorius, Eddie Harris, Mike Dillon, Mark Southerland, Brian Haas and members of the Residents, Rova Sax Quartet and Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band. He founded his current project, the RoughTet, to explore new territories in written and improvised music. All the members are composers. They play non-Western traditional instruments, standard jazz instruments and electronics.