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Daniel Dufour

Daniel Dufour is an Austin drummer, composer, bandleader, session musician, and educator connecting Texas performance with leader recordings and teaching.

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Career Overview

About Daniel Dufour

Dufour's official and University of Texas biographies identify a Houston-area native who established an Austin-rooted performance and teaching practice in 2012. The university lists him as a drum-set lecturer teaching applied lessons and studio class.[1][2]

The biographies distinguish four albums under Dufour's own name from a larger session catalog and document PBS appearances on South Texas Jazz Project and Jazz Tonight. His artist discography also streams original tracks and collaborative recordings directly.[1][2][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, drummer, and composer

Daniel Dufour leader groups

Dufour's official biography and UT faculty page document four releases under his own name alongside recurring Texas performances.[1][2]

Drum-set lecturer

University of Texas jazz program

The Butler School of Music identifies Dufour's teaching areas as jazz studies and drum set and lists his applied and studio instruction.[2]

Drummer and recording musician

Texas session and broadcast work

His biographies separate leader activity from session credits and performances for two PBS jazz programs.[1][2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

Realize

Leader recording

Realize appears in Dufour's artist-hosted audio player as an original recording under his own name.[3]

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R.O.H.

Leader recording

R.O.H. is one of the complete tracks Dufour makes available through his official discography page.[3]

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Standards

Co-credited recording with Sam Pankey and Jordan Burchill

The artist-hosted player credits Standards jointly to Dufour, bassist Sam Pankey, and guitarist Jordan Burchill.[3]

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Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Sun, Oct 11, 7:30 PM

Kerry Politzer Quartet

Monks Jazz Club · Austin

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Sun, Oct 18, 7:30 PM

ACME x Monks Jazz Present: Mark Scott III feat. Aubrey Johnson

Monks Jazz Club · Austin

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Thu, Oct 22, 7:30 PM

Nick Finzer Quartet

Monks Jazz Club · Austin

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Fri, Oct 30, 7:30 PM

James Suter Quintet

Monks Jazz Club · Austin

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Fri, Oct 30, 9:30 PM

James Suter Quintet

Monks Jazz Club · Austin

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography

    Daniel Dufour

  2. [2] Drum-set faculty biography

    Butler School of Music, The University of Texas at Austin

  3. [3] Official discography and playable audio

    Daniel Dufour