About Jimmy C

When do musical influences metamorphose into a person's own style? When does part-time life become a full-time commitment? When does a lifetime of musical experience bubble over into performance as rich as its sources? Ask Jimmy C. - he's living proof that a man's whole music is bigger than the sum of its parts.

Jimmy C's eclectic, stick-wise drumming style results from years of layering. Jazz-fusion, dixie-cowboy, Philly doo-wop, Jersey shore sweat-bang; flavors of musical moments from 35 years of rock and roll history jump off the skins when Jimmy C. slams into gear.

The sixth kid of six kids, Jimmy was raised in the direct beam of 50's TV radio personalities while Mom and Dad went on autopilot. His crib rocked to the patter of jacked-up radio jocks, and he grooved to the make-out music his older sibs used to make their moves with.

Syncopated clattering tap shoes may have put the beat in Jimmy's "sole"; performing became a way of life after lessons opened up all those possibilities. Mom's gift of a bongo drum (inspired by the admiring looks Cubby got from the rest of the Mouseketeers when he thumped out the beat on his traps) put Jimmy into the rhythm he's kept since.