Session 23

Ron Samsom

This album of new compositions by the always inventive, expressive, and enthusiastic jazz drummer, composer, and mentor, Ron Samsom, features a line-up of equally committed musicians willing to go head-to-head with Ron's expertly constructed invitations to explore unique sonic, rhythmic, and joyfully musical environments.

Ron Samsom (drums)
Cam McArthur (bass)
Keith Price (guitars)
Callum Passells (alto sax, Korg MS-20)

All compositions by Ron Samsom © 2025 All Rights Reserved
Produced by Ron Samsom, Callum Passells, Cam McArthur, Keith Price
Recorded at the Kenneth Myers Centre, February 21-23, 2023
Engineered by John Jungseok Kim
Mixed by Steve Garden
Mastered by Joshua Llwellyn at Downbeat Mastering
Cover art by Girlie Land
Design by Unklefranc
Printing by Studio Q

This music was composed, performed, recorded, and produced in Aotearoa (NZ)

Released: 04 July 2025
Catalogue: RAT-J-1060

RON SAMSOM

Born in Canada, drummer and composer Ron Samsom became a proud citizen of Aotearoa in 2018. He is the co-ordinator of jazz performance at University of Auckland, and owns five drum kits and way too much windsurfing equipment … most surprisingly, he finds time to use all of it.

KEITH PRICE

Keith is a Canadian-born guitarist/composer now based in Auckland (NZ) where he serves as a Lecturer in Jazz at Auckland University. He first learned chords from his Grandfather on a dark-red hollow-bodied guitar, but after hearing the intensity and rawness of John Coltrane at the age of fifteen, he was irrevocably drawn into the world of jazz.