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Daniel Glass

Daniel Glass … …. is an award-winning drummer, author, historian, educator and leadership coach based in New York City. As a first call musician, Daniel performs more than 200 concerts annually. He has recorded and toured all over the world with a diverse roster of top artists, including Brian Setzer, Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Royal Crown Revue, KISS front man Gene Simmons, Jose Feliciano, Freddie Cole, Marilyn Maye, Gunhild Carling, Laura Benanti, the Hot Sardines, the Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Michelle Shocked, Melissa Manchester, Mike Ness, Air Supply’s Graham Russell, and Luann De Lesseps from the Real Housewives of New York. For two years running, Daniel was voted one of the top five drummers in the world by readers of Modern Drummer and DRUM magazine. Since 2010, he has been the Monday night house drummer at New York’s legendary Birdand Jazz Club. Daniel also leads his own group, the Daniel Glass Trio, with whom he performs and conducts leadership and team alignment seminars for corporate leaders called Playing In Tune. Daniel is widely recognized as an authority on classic American drumming and the evolution of American Popular Music. As an educator, he has published five books and three DVDs, including the award-winning titles The Century Project, The Roots of Rock Drumming, and The Commandments of Early Rhythm and Blues Drumming. His online curriculum on American Popular Music, From Ragtime to Rock, is used by music educators at over 1000 schools across the U.S. and Canada. Daniel contributes regularly to publications like Modern Drummer, DRUM and Classic Drummer. He has performed hundreds of clinics and master classes globally, appearing at many of the world’s top educational institutions (such as U of Miami’s Frost School of Music), conferences (such as JEN, the Jazz Education Network) and music festivals (Percussive Arts Society Int’l Conv, Modern Drummer Festival). In 2016, Daniel created an annual 5-day Jazz Drumming Intensive in New York City, which draws an international student base, and features renowned guest clinicians such as Carl Allen, Kenny Washington and Sean Pelton. In 2021, Daniel brought the Jazz Intensive concept to Europe, and to date has hosted five annual events at the Groovekiste Musik Akademie near Frankfurt, Germany. A pioneer in online education, Daniel works one-on-one with an average of 50 private students each month (who hail from five continents). His online educational portal – Drumming In Motion – offers a wide range of courses, all based in Daniel’s unique, proprietary method of teaching, known as the Motion Based System. In 2013, Daniel co-curated an exhibit on the history of the drum set at the Rhythm Discovery Center in Indianapolis, IN, for which he was awarded the Percussive Arts Society’s “Distinguished Service Award.”