Barry Altschul

Barry Altschul (born 1943 in New York City) is an American jazz drummer associated with free jazz. He studied with Charlie Persip and worked with pianist Paul Bley from the mid-1960s, and at the end of the decade he joined Chick Corea's trio with Dave Holland. With Anthony Braxton added, the trio became the cooperative quartet Circle, and Altschul went on to play in Braxton's quartet in the 1970s. He played on Corea's The Song of Singing (Blue Note, 1971), the trio album A.R.C. (ECM, 1971) and Braxton's Five Pieces 1975 (Arista).