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Alex Cline is an American jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his work with the Los Angeles-based jazz collective The Cline-Coleman Connection, which he co-founded with his brother, guitarist Nels Cline. He has also performed and recorded with a wide variety of artists, including John Zorn, Carla Bley, Vinny Golia, and the Gerald Wilson Orchestra.
Cline was born in Los Angeles, California, and began playing drums at the age of nine. He studied with jazz drummer Shelly Manne and classical percussionist William Kraft, and attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with jazz greats such as Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, and Horace Tapscott.
Cline has released several albums as a leader, including his debut album, The Constant Flame (1996), and his most recent, The Other Shore (2018). He has also composed music for film and television, including the score for the film The Big Lebowski (1998).
As of 2021, Alex Cline's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.
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4 January, 1956 |
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4 January |
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United States |
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Alex Cline Net Worth
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Other groups Cline has led are Alex Cline’s Band of the Moment and The Rain Trio (with Eric Barber and Scott Walton). He has also been involved in duo percussion collaborations with Ron George, Peter Erskine, Christopher Garcia, Andrea Centazzo, Gregg Bendian and Dan Morris, as well as involved in performing the works of composers such as Robert Eriksson, Harold Budd and David Means.
Cline has served as composer and/or performer for numerous modern dancers and dance companies in Los Angeles, including Margaret Schuette, Linda Fowler, the Momentum Company’s "Soundspace" concerts, Dance/LA, the UCLA Dance Company and has enjoyed a longstanding involvement with Will Salmon’s Open Gate Theatre company.
He has participated in performance collaborations with visual artists Yoshio Ikezaki, Norton Wisdom, Kio Griffith and 2-Tu. He has worked on feature and cable television film soundtracks, done numerous sound workshops and percussion clinics, plus lecture-demonstrations on Asian metal percussion instruments. Cline has also been the curator of the Open Gate Theatre’s Sunday Evening Concerts series, a new music/creative jazz showcase held monthly in Eagle Rock, California (since 1997).
In 1982, Alex Cline made his solo debut with Not Alone (Nine Winds), a double LP of percussion music. In 1987, he recorded The Lamp and The Star (ECM), his first album as a bandleader-composer. As the leader of his own group, The Alex Cline Ensemble, he can be heard on Sparks Fly Upward and The Constant Flame, two releases on Cryptogramophone Records, an LA-based independent creative-jazz label. Cline’s other improvisational collaborations include right of violet and The Other Shore, both with Jeff Gauthier and ex-Shadowfax guitarist G.E. Stinson, and Cloud Plate (Cryptogramophone) with Stinson, vocalist Kaoru and koto player Miya Masaoka.
In 1979, Alex and Nels Cline, along with bassist Eric Von Essen and violinist Jeff Gauthier, formed "Quartet Music", a group that enjoyed continued success in its performances and four recordings over an eleven-year period and was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Cline began playing drums with his twin brother, guitarist Nels Cline, at the age of 11. Their first band was called Homogenized Goo and included David Hirschman on guitar. Alex Cline began a musical association with woodwind artist Jamil Shabaka in 1976 as "Duo Infinity". In 1977, he became a member of Vinny Golia's group as well as the Julius Hemphill Trio (along with Baikida Carroll), formed the electric improvisational trio Spiral (with brother Nels and synthesizer player and multi-instrumentalist Brian Horner) and began performing solo percussion concerts.
Alex Cline (born January 4, 1956) is an American jazz drummer.