Jojo Mayer

The son of bassist Vali Mayer, he has spent his life traveling through Europe and beyond.
At the age of two he has his first drum set, and his first performance is in Hong Kong when he is just 3 years old.

Jojo Mayer is a true child prodigy. Self-taught at first, he then wanted to deepen some techniques such as moeller tecnique for both hands and feet consequently perpetual motion with the great master Bruce Becker (a student for twenty years of Freddie Gruber Guru from the USA).

He spends his teenage years playing at the best jazz festivals all over Europe-Montreux, Nice, Athens…
In early 1991 he was involved in numerous projects, both live and in the studio. As a drummer he boasts collaborations with artists such as David Fiuczynski (guitarist with the group Screaming Headless Torsos, which Jojo was a part of on the first CD) , Me’Shell Ndegéocello, Vernon Reid’s Science Project, DJ Spooky, Emergency Broadcast Network, the Vienna Art Orchestra, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Harry Pepl, Gerald Veasley, Monty Alexander, Lunar Crush, John Zorn, James Blood Ulmer, Chico Freeman, George Adams, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, John Medeski, Family of Percussion, Hiram Bullock, Leni Stern, Depart, Wolfgang Puschnigg, the Intergalactic Maiden Ballet, Friedrich Gulda, Harry Sokal, Steve Coleman and the Five Elements, Passport, Wah Wah Watson, and many, many others.

Jojo Mayer as a clinician, and educator, has major participations such as those of the Modern Drummer Festival, held annually in America in New York, at the Buddy Rich Memorial Scholarship in New York in 1995, The International Drummer-Meeting in Koblenz in the years 1989, 1991, 1995; the Montreal Drum-Fest in 1996, NAMM-Show’s “Drums along the Hilton” in 1996 and many others.