Jamey Haddad later studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
14 Facts About Jamey Haddad
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Jamey Haddad lived in New York City for over 20 years.
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Jamey Haddad teaches at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio.
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Jamey Haddad is artistic director of the Friday's at 7 series at Cleveland's Severance Hall.
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For five years, Haddad studied Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music, with Ramnad Raghavan.
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Jamey Haddad received a Fulbright Fellowship, which allowed him to study South Indian Carnatic music, including the mridangam, kanjira and ghatam in South India for one more year.
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Jamey Haddad is the 2010 recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize and a Legends of Jazz Award.
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Jamey Haddad has received four National Endowment for the Arts fellowships to pursue jazz and international studies and collaborations.
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Jamey Haddad has lived and had extended study of music in North Africa, Brazil, Venezuela and the Middle East.
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Jamey Haddad started performing with Paul Simon as his percussionist from 1998 till 2019.
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Jamey Haddad has worked with the Paul Winter Consort, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Allen Farnham, Carly Simon, Betty Buckley, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Simon Shaheen, Marbin, Trichy Sankaran, Osvaldo Golijov, Nguyen Le, Badi Assad, Steve Shehan, Esperanza Spalding, Elliot Goldenthal, Sergio and Odair Assad, Daniel Schnyder, Nancy Wilson, the Wayfaring Strangers, Steve Gadd, and Laszlo Gardony.
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Jamey Haddad appears on more than 225 audio recordings and movie soundtracks.
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Jamey Haddad was a full-time professor at the Berklee College of Music from 1992 to 2010.
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Jamey Haddad was made a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2005.