Full Name Hugh Elliott Role Editor Name Hugh Elliott | Website HughElliott.com Nationality American | |
Born November 27, 1964 Austin, Texas, United States Education Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts Known for Film/TV Production & Drummer | ||
Hugh Elliott is a Los Angeles-based Film/TV Editor and Musician. Elliott was a founding member of the quintet, Jazz Punks. He was the drummer, co-producer, and co-arranger on the Jazz Punks album, SMASHUPS, which reached #1 on the CMJ Jazz Top 40 in June 2012. He worked on a number of other albums as well, including the Angela Bofill album, I Wanna Love Somebody, and Heather Nova's album, South.
Contents
As a Film/TV Editor, Elliott's body of work includes Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, ABC, ABC News, PBS, and NatGeo. Most of these positions were as Lead Editor.
Early life and education
Hugh Elliott was born in Austin, Texas and grew up in Dallas, Texas in the United States where, as a young child, he began studying drums with Vernon Ewan, percussionist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He went on to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
Career
After Berklee College of Music, Elliott moved to New York City where he performed and recorded with local and international artists including Grover Washington Jr., Herbie Hancock, Phoebe Snow, Joan Osborne, Phyllis Hyman and Angela Bofill. Elliott performed at venues such as NYC's Beacon Theater and Blue Note Jazz Club, Chicago's Arie Crown Theater and Detroit's Fox Theatre. He recorded multiple times at NYC's The Power Station during its heyday.
In addition to his work with Angela Bofill, Elliott played on a number of other internationally released records, including Sandra Bernhard's, I'm Still Here... Damn It!, Laura Branigan's, Remember Me, Billy Crawford's, Billy Crawford, Robert Lamm's (of the band, Chicago) solo album, In My Head, and Heather Nova's, South, drumming on the single, Like Lovers Do, which was featured in the film, Serendipity.
In 2006, Elliott was a founding member of the Los Angeles-based quintet, Jazz Punks. In 2009, the group released a self-titled EP. In 2012, Jazz Punks released an album titled, SMASHUPS. SMASHUPS received positive reviews, including the Boston Globe, JazzTimes and All About Jazz. In addition to reaching #1 on the CMJ Jazz Top 40, SMASHUPS garnered #15 on CMJ's Top 100 Albums of 2012 and remained on KCRW’s Jazz Top 10 for 8 weeks.