Michael Zerang

Michael Zerang is an American percussionist and drummer, born in Chicago in 1958 to Assyrian parents from Iran and Iraq. Active professionally since 1976, he works across free jazz, improvised music, contemporary composition and theatre, and is known for his membership of Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet and his duos and trios with Chicago improvisers. Zerang started out with bassist Kent Kessler and in the trio Liof Munimula, and played in the Vandermark Quartet. With Brötzmann he recorded Stone/Water and American Landscapes for Okka Disk and toured in a trio with Hamid Drake.