Jeff Sipe

Jeff Sipe

Jeff Sipe with Phil and Friends Photo: Josh Atlas
Background information
Birth name Jeffrey Lee Sipe
Also known as Apt. Q258
Born (1959-01-31) January 31, 1959
Berlin, Germany
Genres Rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass, jam music
Instruments Drums, percussion
Years active since 1972
Labels SCI Fidelity
Associated acts Jeff Sipe Group
Bela Fleck
Phil Lesh & Friends
Keller Williams
Aquarium Rescue Unit
Susan Tedeschi
Jimmy Herring
Shawn Lane
Jonathan Scales
Jonas Hellborg
Jazz Is Dead
Debashish Bhattacharya
Website Apartment-Q258 Jeff Sipe.org
Notable instruments
Drum Set

Jeff Sipe (born January 31, 1959, Berlin, Germany) is an American drummer. He is a rock and jazz fusion drummer, however, he is proficient in many other styles which he has demonstrated in his decades of drumming. He is a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit along with Col. Bruce Hampton. He also played with the self-applied Cajun Slamgrass Band Leftover Salmon and in the Zambiland Orchestra, an experimental big band featuring members of Phish, Widespread Panic and others.[1] He toured in 2011 with Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet, Sipe recently has toured with Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll and Sipe and Jimmy Herring Band. He has been said by Herring to "live for music" and remains his first choice among drummers with whom to play.[2] Currently (2015), Sipe is on tour with Warren Haynes and the Ashes to Dust band. They were recently featured on The Conan O'Brien Show.

Discography

Aquarium Rescue Unit

Hellborg, Lane, Sipe

Project Z

Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll and Sipe

Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet

Other

References

  1. Jeff Sipe Bio on JamBase, jambase.com, Retrieved July 8, 2008.
  2. The Lifeboat Interview (video on Google)The Lifeboat Interview (video on Google) cited July 15, 2009
  3. Jeff Sipe Discography, jeffsipe.org, Retrieved July 8, 2008

External links

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