Aquarian Family

Jeremy Steinkoler

A very swinging drummer who’s mastered the art of coordinated independence” (East Bay Express) and “A master of second-line syncopation” (SF Bay Guardian), Jeremy has been playing drums professionally for over 30 years. He performs regularly with a wide range of musical projects, including his award-winning saxes-and-drums trio Mo’Fone, The Erika Oba Trio, Jean Fineberg's JAZZphoria, Sam Rudin, Jennifer Jolly & Friends, the Bonafides, his own Steinkoler Trio with his son Evan on piano, and various other jazz players and singer/songwriters. His groovy, feel-based approach to the drums has earned him prodigious credits as a sideman, including performances and recordings with members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Dave Ellis, Kirk Joseph, Steve Freund, Clarence Bucaro, George Brooks, Jenna Mammina, Mamadou Sidibe, Chelle & Friends, Guru Garage, Valerie Orth, Rachel Efron, Flyover States, Kevin Beadles, Hot Links, Phatlip, the Jolly Gibsons, and other top musicians around the Bay Area. He leads and composes for Mo’Fone, which has been featured numerous times at the Monterey, San Francisco and Sonoma Jazz Festivals and has released 4 albums which have received radio play around the world. Jeremy has been teaching private drum lessons since 1991 and has become one of the top drum instructors in the Bay Area. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of BandWorks, a rock band program for musicians of all ages with multiple locations serving over 1,200 students each year. He is the Founder and Director of the East Bay Drum School and has been on the faculty of Cazadero Performing Arts Family Camp for the past 30 years, where he was the Co-Director from 1999-2001. He has taught rock band workshops and drumming master classes in Dublin, Ireland; Ann Arbor, MI; and in California for the past 25 years. Jeremy was also a co-founder of the Drummers Education Connection (D.E.C.), an online education network for drummers and instructors serving the global drumming community. Jeremy is the author of Finding the Groove (Hudson Music), a critically acclaimed collection of essays on drumming, teaching and performing.