Joachim Cooder

Joachim Cooder has spent much of his career beside his father, Ry Cooder, and that partnership is what most listeners know him for. Drumming from the age of five, after being drawn to the playing of Jim Keltner, he learned his craft on tour with his father, who brought him along from a young age and put him in the company of prominent musicians. His credits span drums, percussion, composition and keyboards, a breadth that reflects a childhood spent around working musicians.

His playing appears on two Grammy Award winning albums, A Meeting by the River from 1993 and Buena Vista Social Club from 1997. He is also seen performing in the accompanying documentary, released in 1999. His debut album, Love on a Real Train, came out in 2012 and drew on a varied group of collaborators, among them Petra Haden, Inara George, Matt Costa and Jon Hassell, as well as his wife, Juliette Commagere.