BIOGRAPHY

In addition to performing, Julian is an active studio drummer and percussionist, having recorded on over 150 albums to date. Some of his more notable records include the top-selling album, Live At Frankie’s Jazz Club, featuring Harold Mabern and the Cory Weeds Quintet, The Promise by Jay Thomas, Aaron Parks’ First Romance, Mike Allen Quartet’s A Hip Cosmos, Go To Hell by Star Anna, Idyl Wild by Jon Hamar and featuring Rich Perry, Kasey Anderson’s Nowhere Nights, and the Miles Black Trio featuring Grant Stewart. Julian has been a member of orchestras for the musicals Man of La Mancha, West Side Story, Oklahoma!, Wizard of Oz, Falsettos, and 1940s Radio Hour.

You can find Julian leading his jazz combo and passion project each month at The Orion, in Downtown Bellingham. Featuring some of the Northwest’s best musicians, compositions by the late great drummer, Art Blakey, embody the creative abandonment and excitement that too often eclipses jazz today.

A passionate music educator, Julian has taught at Western Washington University, for the Roosevelt High School Jazz Band in Seattle, and the Seattle Drum School. He currently teaches private lessons.

From 2014-2019, Julian opened and acted as Creative Director for the Whatcom Jazz Music Arts Center in downtown Bellingham. Known colloquially as WJMAC, the 501(c)3 organization presented weekly concerts with the best regional and national names in jazz in an intimate listening environment and acted as a staging ground to inspire and develop new talent in weekly workshops. Each October, they hosted the annual WJMAC Jazz Walk, featuring the Pacific Northwest's best jazz musicians.

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