Blake Fleming
Blake Fleming is a drummer known for his involvement with several influential experimental bands, who will be featured in the forthcoming book For Drummers By Drummers, a first-of-its-kind oral history of studio drumming consisting of exclusive interviews from “two hundred of the world’s best-loved drummers.”
Born in Alton, IL (birthplace of Miles Davis and home to Robert Pershing Wadlow, tallest man in recorded history) in 1972, Fleming started drumming at age 8, spending several years in fife and drumming corps, bagpipe bands, jazz bands, marching bands and orchestras. While in the Alton Colonial Fife and Drum Corps, Blake studied under Jerry Whitaker, the East Coast Rudimental Snare Drum Champion from West Point.
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