Sheet music by Mark Walker

Mark Walker is an American jazz musician (drummer, percussionist, arranger and composer).

Mark Walker started playing drums at the age of ten. He made his first professional concert appearances and studio recordings immediately after high school. In 1989 he first played with Cuban saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera (a collaboration that continues to this day and led to multiple Grammy successes in 1997 and 2007). In 1995 he moved to New York City, where he continued to work with Michel Camilo, the Caribbean Jazz Project, Dave Samuels, Andy Narell, Lyle Mays, David Liebman, Chucho Valdés, Fareed Haque, Dianne Reeves, Patricia Barber, Linda Eder and Bill Watrous.

Mark Walker has been known in Europe since joining Oregon in 1997 as a drummer and increasingly as a composer (Grammy nominated in 2008). With the WDR Big Band Cologne he was involved in various productions from 1998 to 2004 and recorded the album Tango y Postango. Together with Alex Brown and Dan Durham he formed his Panamerican Trio.

Since 2001 he teaches as Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston.