Colin Stranahan

Colin Stranahan is a jazz drummer born in Denver, Colorado, the son of a jazz educator, who emerged early on his hometown scene and released his debut album Dreams Untold on Capri Records in 2004. He trained as a Brubeck Institute Fellow at the University of the Pacific and later at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in New Orleans, and won the Thelonious Monk International Drums Competition in 2012. Based in Brooklyn, he has worked as a sideman with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jonathan Kreisberg, and Fred Hersch, among many others. He co-leads the collaborative Stranahan/Zaleski/Rosato Trio and plays in the groups Kind Folk and Real Feels.