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Toronto-based drummer Larnell Lewis returns to late night. He was featured earlier this year (1/24-1/27) as listed in our earlier posting HERE.
The Grammy-winning musician will join Late Night with Seth Meyers the week of Jan. 24-27 as he sits in with the 8G Band.
Led by Fred Armisen, the 8G Band — named after the show’s production studio in New York — comprises guitarists Seth Jabour and Marnie Stern, bassist Syd Butler and keyboardist Eli Janney. It’s been the show’s house band since its premiere in 2014.
Without a regular drummer, the 8G Band has enlisted a long list of guest drummers throughout the years. Those have previously included Steve Ferrone, Nikki Glaspie, Vinnie Colaiuta, Chad Smith, Abe Laboriel Jr., Hannah Welton, Matt Cameron, Patrick Carney, Kenny Aronoff, Matt Sorum, Jimmy Chamberlin, Brad Wilk, Stanton Moore and Joe Russo.
Late Night producer Eric Leiderman extends the invitation for newcomers to join Armisen and his group each week.
Bio:
Larnell Lewis is a Canadian drummer, composer, producer, and educator. He is most well known for playing drums with the Brooklyn-based jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Lewis started playing drums at age 2 and was first introduced to drums in church. Lewis attended Humber College, where he was the 2004 recipient of the Oscar Peterson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music, the highest award given by the institution. In 2018 Lewis released his first solo album, In The Moment, on which he played bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, melodica, percussion, piano, synthesizer and vocals, in addition to writing and producing. n February 2021 Lewis recorded a video for the YouTube channel Drumeo in which he listened to the Metallica song “Enter Sandman” for the first time, then played the drum part of the entire song after having heard it just once. The video went viral, with over 9.3 million views as of February 2022.
Lewis currently plays and has recorded with musical artists Snarky Puppy, Laila Biali and is a Humber music faculty member and alumni.
Late Night with Seth Meyers airs weeknights at 12:35 a.m. ET on NBC and on Global TV in Canada.
