Drummer
Harold White plays on several modern jazz recordings released each year since at least the late '60s, setting the rhythmic pace in a stylistic progression from hard bop to the radical protest song material of
the Gary Bartz Ntu Troop.
White played with pianists
Ray Bryant,
Junior Mance, and
Horace Silver, with multi-instrumentalist and rabble-rouser
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and behind goofy vocalist
Eddie Jefferson. While a good deal of the latter collaborating was captured on recording, other aspects of
White's music-making unfortunately vanished into thin air. In an online biography of tenor saxophonist and bandleader
Ellery Eskelin, the Baltimore drummer is mentioned as having hosted a neighborhood jam session at a New York City venue, the Star Cafe. Time line for said jamming was between 1983 and 1986.
Eskelin had previously worked with
White back in Baltimore, the drummer bringing his previous experience with the aforementioned
Silver to what sounds like a great project: a trio with
Eskelin and trumpeter Tom Williams performing
Silver's original arrangements. ~ Eugene Chadbourne