Nate Wood (born October 3, 1979) is an American

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multi-instrumentalist. He has performed with Wayne Krantz, Kneebody, Tigran Hamasyan, Louis Cole, The Calling, and

Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders was an American rock band founded by Taylor Hawkins, drummer for Foo Fighters. Hawkins was the drummer and vocalist for the trio. Other band members have included Chris Chaney on bass, Gannin Arnold on gu ...

Background

Nate learned to play drums, bass, guitar, and saxophone, and attended the

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a Private university, private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for ...

for bass and drums, studying with

Charlie Haden Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years. Haden helped to revolutionize the harmonic concept of bass playin ...

and Joe LaBarbera. He also attended LAMA College for Music Professionals for drums, where he studied under Ralph Humphrey and Joe Porcaro. After graduating, he played with Kneebody on their first gigs, and then toured with The Calling in support of their debut album. Afterwards, he recorded and played every instrument on his debut album, and in addition to his work with Kneebody, toured and performed with artists such as

George Harrison George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Culture ...

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, Sting, Wayne Krantz, Donny McCaslin,

, the Ed Fry Band, and

Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy is an American jazz fusion band led by bassist Michael League. Founded in 2004, Snarky Puppy combines a variety of jazz idioms, rock, world music, and funk and has won five Grammy Awards. Although the band has worked with vocalis ...

Discography

As a leader

* ''Reliving'' (2003) * ''Fall'' (2007) * ''Another Time'' (2014) * ''fOUR'' (2018) With Kneebody * ''Wendel'' (2002) * ''Kneebody'' (2005) * ''Low Electrical Worker'' (2007) * ''Kneebody Live: Volume One'' (2007) * ''Twelve Songs By Charles Ives'' (2009) * ''Kneebody Live: Volume Two: Live in Italy'' (2009) * ''You Can Have Your Moment'' (2010) * ''Kneebody Live: Volume Three: Live in Paris'' (2011) * ''The Line'' (2013) * ''Kneedelus'' (2015) * ''Anti-Hero'' (2017) * ''By Fire'' (2019) * ''Chapters'' (2019) * ''Live at Le Crescent'' (2022) * ''Reach'' (2025) With ACT -

Ben Wendel Ben Wendel (born February 20, 1976) is a Canadian jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, ...

, Harish Raghavan, & Nate Wood * ''ACT'' (2009) * ''ACT II'' (2015)

As a sideman

With Wayne Krantz * '' Good Piranha / Bad Piranha'' (2014) With Tigran Hamasyan * ''Red Hail'' (2009) * '' Shadow Theater'' (2012) * ''The Bird of a Thousand Voices'' (2024) With

* ''

'' (2006) * '' Red Light Fever'' (2010) With The Calling * '' Camino Palmero'' (2001)

References

External links

Official Site

2015 Audio Interview with Nate Wood from the I'd Hit That Podcast
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Nate Living people 1979 births Place of birth missing (living people) California Institute of the Arts alumni American jazz drummers Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders members 21st-century American drummers Kneebody members American male drummers