Rochelle Coatney is an accomplished drummer, timbalera, and percussionist.
She plays Afro-Cuban, Latin Jazz, blues, R & B, jazz, funk, and rock.
Rochelle is currently a core member in three steady projects. The Jug Or Nots, Southern California's Premiere Jug Band,
Suzenne Fordham's 5th Stream Quartet, and Sabbath In Black, a magnificent Black Sabbath tribute band.
Jug Or Nots
The Jug or Nots, Southern California's Premiere Jug Band, formed in 2009
and embarked on a mission to bring American music of the 1920s and 1930s, authentically played,
to today's audiences. They play traditional music: Americana, Blues, Moonshine, from the 1920s and 1930s on
period instruments, including cigar box guitar, washboard, kazoo, resonator guitar, banjo, and standup bass.
At times sounding like a rusty bicycle and at others times like a steam locomotive.
The Jug or Nots have performed at such places as the 2010 and 2011 International Jug Band Festival in
Sutter Creek, California, and at the Los Angeles Burning Man Decompression Festival.
Members of the sextet have performed in other kinds of bands, from jazz to progressive to punk. This time
it's all about having fun as we proudly present our high energy acoustic musical mischief.
At a Jug or Nots show, one can expect traditional blues-based jug band music played with excitement and passion!
Washboards will rattle, kazoos will buzz, and frying pans will clang!
Suezenne Fordham Fifth Stream
Suezenne plays a Steinway "D" concert Grand; Nate Light plays Contrabass;
Rochelle Coatney plays Latin and World Percussion, and Miles Senzaki plays Percussion and Drums.
The group is hip, elegant, knowing,arty, and the Music is highly thought out, yet totally improvised.
Fifth Stream is a combination-fusion of Jazz-Classical and Avant Garde, and is very virtuosic!
The venues are Historic, comfortable... and informal. Admission is complimentary.
Fordham Studied Jazz in NY with Lennie Tristano,Milt Jackson, Gerry Mulligan, and classical Piano with
Robert Goldsand, Ania Dorfman, Josef Raieff, Dorothea La Follette, Beveridge Webster, Rosinna Lhevine,
composition with Hall Overton, MX Mitacek[ Spud Murphy's Equal Interval System. The energy level of the Musicians
is as really soaring. We also have a plethora of Tibetan percussion instruments... and we have a ball....
and so do our audiences!
Sabbath In Black
Sabbath In Black is a trio that performs the music of Black Sabbath.
Performing such classics as "War Pigs", "Iron Man", and "After Forever".
Audiences love watching as the band performs with a high level of energy and fun that often has
the audience singing along.
