Allan Schwartzberg

Allan Schwartzberg
Born (1942-12-28) December 28, 1942
New York City, New York, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • record producer
Instruments
  • Drums
  • percussion
Years active 1969-present
Associated acts
Notable instruments
Pollard Syndrum

Allan Schwartzberg (born December 28, 1942) is an American musician and record producer. He has been a member of the rock bands Mountain and The Group with No Name and has experienced success as a prolific session musician, mostly through recordings made in the 1970s.[1] He has also played on hits such as Gloria Gaynor's "Never Can Say Goodbye",[2] and Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill". He has played with many musicians, including John Lennon, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Roxy Music, Rod Stewart, Robert Palmer, Roberta Flack, Harry Chapin, Barbra Streisand, Deodato, and Roger Daltrey.[3][4]

Early life and education

Allan Schwartzberg was born on December 28, 1942, in New York City. He began playing the drums at the age of ten and attended the Manhattan School of Music for three years, studying percussion (mallets only) with Morris Goldenberg. But he claims that his real education was listening to and memorizing the work of musicians like Max Roach, Elvin Jone, and Philly Joe Jones. At the age of 20,he was the house drummer at the Half Note Club in downtown New York, performing with a variety of jazz musician, including Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Roy Eldridge, Bob Brookmeyer, Richie Kamuca, Jim Hall, Ron Carter, Anita O'Da, and Jimmy Rushing.[5]

Partial discography

1970s

Year Title Artist
1973 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Dawn
1973 True Stories and Other Dreams Judy Collins
1973 Dawn's New Ragtime Follies Tony Orlando & Dawn
1974 Reality James Brown
1974 Twin Peaks Mountain
1974 Verities & Balderdash Harry Chapin
1974 Veedon Fleece Van Morrison
1975 Crash Landing Jimi Hendrix
1975 Waterbed Herbie Mann
1975 Never Can Say Goodbye Gloria Gaynor
1976 Moon Over Brooklyn The Group with No Name
1976 Alice Cooper Goes to Hell Alice Cooper
1977 Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel
1977 Portfolio Grace Jones
1977 Glorious Gloria Gaynor
1977 Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk Meco
1977 Lace and Whiskey Alice Cooper
1977 Herbie Mann and Fire Island Herbie Mann
1977 Conquistador Maynard Ferguson
1977 A Song Neil Sedaka
1977 Blue Lights in the Basement Roberta Flack
1978 Songbird Barbra Streisand
1978 Gene Simmons Gene Simmons
1978 Heavy Metal Be-Bop The Brecker Brothers
1978 Peter Criss Peter Criss
1978 Double Fun Robert Palmer
1979 Platinum Mike Oldfield
1979 Nils Nils Lofgren
1979 Live and Sleazy Village People

1980s

Year Title Artist
1980 Flesh and Blood Roxy Music
1980 Dreams Grace Slick
1981 Music from "The Elder" Kiss
1982 NunSexMonkRock Nina Hagen
1982 It's Alright (I See Rainbows) Yoko Ono
1983 School for Spies Kit Hain
1984 Parting Should Be Painless Roger Daltrey
1984 Milk and Honey John Lennon and Yoko Ono
1984 Cover Tom Verlaine
1987 Flash Light Tom Verlaine

1990s

Year Title Artist
1990 What a Way to Go Mark Murphy
1991 Help Yourself Julian Lennon

See also

References

  1. "Allan Schwartzberg: Discography". Stereosociety.com. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  2. "Allan Schwartzberg's home at the Stereo Society". Stereosociety.com. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  3. "Vic Firth Artist: ALLAN SCHWARTZBERG". Vicfirth.com. Archived from the original on June 25, 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-11.
  4. "Allan Schwartzberg - Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  5. Allan Schwartzberg, retrieved August 20, 2014

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