Jeffrey Lee Hirshfield is an American jazz

Jazz

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 drummer.

Hirshfield studied under Ed Soph

Ed Soph

Edward "Ed" Soph is an American jazz drummer and educator.Soph was raised in Houston, Texas. He enrolled at North Texas State University in 1963 as a music major, but switched his concentration to English during his sophomore year...

. He worked for the Joffrey Ballet

Joffrey Ballet

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 in 1976-77 and then played with Mose Allison

Mose Allison

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 (1977-79). During the 1980s he worked with Red Rodney

Red Rodney

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 and Ira Sullivan

Ira Sullivan

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 (1981-85), Toshiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko Akiyoshi

is a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best...

 (1986-89), and Bennie Wallace

Bennie Wallace

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 (1987-90). Alongside Fred Hersch

Fred Hersch

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 and Steve LaSpina

Steve LaSpina

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, he was a member of the trio Etc. during 1988-91. During this time he also played in a trio with Hersch and Michael Formanek

Michael Formanek

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. From 1990 he played with Harold Danko

Harold Danko

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, played in Formanek's Wide Open Spaces project, and played again with LaSpina in a quartet setting. He also worked in a quartet with John Abercrombie

John Abercrombie (guitarist)

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 and Andy LaVerne

Andy LaVerne

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 early in the 1990s. In the mid-1990s he played in a trio with Marc Copland

Marc Copland

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 and Dieter Ilg (1992-95), another trio with Tim Berne

Tim Berne

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 and Formanek (1993-94), and the Lan Xang

Lan Xang

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 ensemble with David Binney

David Binney

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, Donny McCaslin

Donny McCaslin

Donny McCaslin is an American jazz saxophonist.McCaslin's father was a vibraphonist, and he played in his father's ensemble at the age of twelve. He had his own group in high school which played three years at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He studied under Paul Contos and Brad Hecht, both of whom...

, and Scott Colley

Scott Colley

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 (after 1995).

Hirshfield has also played with a number of other leaders, including Bob Belden

Bob Belden

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, Marc Copland, Vic Juris

Vic Juris

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, Steve Slagle

Steve Slagle

Steve Slagle is an American jazz saxophonist.Slagle was born in Los Angeles and grew up in suburban Philadelphia. he received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music. He came to New York in 1976, playing with Machito and his Afro-Cuban orchestra, and played successively with Ray Barretto,...

, Dave Stryker

Dave Stryker

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, Jim Snidero

Jim Snidero

Jim Snidero is an American jazz saxophonist.Snidero studied at the University of North Texas before moving to New York City in 1981. After touring with Jack McDuff, he joined Toshiko Akiyoshi's Jazz Orchestra in the early 1980s in New York, working in the group for twenty years...

, Warren Bernhardt

Warren Bernhardt

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, Jay Anderson, and Paul Bley

Paul Bley

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