​About Joe Roma:

Joe is a graduate of Binghamton University where he received his Bachelor of Music degree with Honors. He studied drumming as a teen with Ken Craig, a graduate of the Navy School of Music and a highly respected drummer. Further study took place in New York City with both Joe Morello (of the famed Dave Brubeck Quartet) and Ed Shaugnessy (drummer with Johnny Carson's Tonight Show). Joe is also fortunate to have studied with drummer/clinician/author/entrepreneur Roy Burns. College percussion study was with David Buttolph, a graduate of Yale University and the Juilliard School, and student of the New York Philharmonic's Saul Goodman. Further college percussion study took place with Christian Granger, a graduate of Ted Frazeur's percussion program at Fredonia State University.

Joe was a member of the Binghamton University Music Department for 8 years, conducting the University Percussion Ensemble and teaching percussion lessons. He founded Joe's Drum Shop in Johnson City and had a successful business there for 21 years. He is currently on the Music Department faculty at SUNY-Broome, teaching Applied Music lessons. He performs as Principal Timpanist with the Tri-Cities Opera orchestra and on the drum set with Anything Goes and the Miles Ahead Jazz Quartet. He is a private drum and percussion instructor and a certified NYSSMA adjudicator.

Joe has performed with the Binghamton Philharmonic, Tri-Cities Opera, BC Pops, Binghamton Community Orchestra, Ice Capades, Disney World on Ice and Cider Mill Playhouse. Artists he has performed with in concert include Dionne Warwick, Clark Terry, Urbie Green, Frank Wess,  Houston Person, Erskine Hawkins, Marvin Stamm, Ingrid Jensen, Lew Soloff, Slam Stewart, Cat Anderson, Rufus Reid, Eddie Allen, Eddie Daniels, Tia Fuller, Ken McIntyre, Steve Davis, Mike Davis, Tony Kadleck, Bob Dorough, Steve Weisberg, Michael Philip Mossman, Larry Ham, Eilleen Farrell, Richard Stolzman and members of the Lenox Quartet.

He has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, the dedication of the New York State Governmental Plaza in Albany, Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, the dedication (and 25th anniversary!) of the Broome County Veterans memorial Arena, Pops on the River and the Glenora Winery's Jazz Series.

JOE's CURRENT LIVE PERFORMANCES

​August 22 - Miles Ahead Jazz Quartet at W&W Nursery, Apalachin (outside), 1-4 P.M.

(Due to the current national constraints, me and all my fellow musicians are on hiatus)

MARCH 2020

Mar 6 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Mar 7 - Sinatra and more with the Ralph Muro Trio at Number 5 Restaurant, S. Washington St., Binghamton, 8 P.M.

Mar 13 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Mar 14 - Anything Goes at Number 5 Restaurant,S. Washington Sr.,Binghamton, 8 P.M.


FEBRUARY 2020

Feb 1 - Sinatra and more with the Ralph Muro Trio at Number 5 Restaurant, S.Washington St., Binghamton, 8 P.M.

Feb 7 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Feb 8 - Vocalist Ayanna Del Valle Trio at Number 5 Restaurant, S. Washington St., Binghamton, 8 P.M.

Feb 9 - Jazz Vespers featuring the Miles Ahead Jazz Quartet, First Congregational Church, corner of Front and Main, Binghamton, 5 P.M.

Feb 14 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Feb 21 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Feb 22 - light jazz with Anything Goes at Number 5 Restaurant, S. Washington St, Binghamton, 8 P.M.

​Feb 28 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

JANUARY 2020

Jan 3 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Jan 4 - Sinatra and more with the Ralph Muro Trio, Number 5 restaurant, S.Washington St., Binghamton, 8 P.M.

Jan 10 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Jan 17 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Jan 24 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Jan 25 - light jazz with Anything Goes at Number 5 Restaurant, S. Washington St., Binghamton, 8 P.M.

Jan 31 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

DECEMBER 2019

Dec 6 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Dec 7 -Ayana Del Valle Quartet at Number 5 Restaurant, S. Washington St., Binghamton, 8 P.M.

Dec 20 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

​Dec 27 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Dec 31 - New Year's Eve with the Ayana DelValle Quartet at Number 5 Restaurant, S. Washington St., Binghamton, 9:30 P.M.


NOVEMBER 2019

Nov 1 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Nov 2 - Ayana DelValle Quartet at Number 5 Restaurant, S. Washington St., Binghamton, 8 P.M.

Nov 3 -Jazz Brunch at Holiday Inn Arena, Water St., Binghamton, 10 A.M. - 2 P.M.

Nov 8 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Nov 15 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Nov 16 - Sinatra and more with the Ralph Muro Trio at Number 5 Restaurant, S. Washington St., Binghamton, 8 P.M.

Nov 23 - light jazz with Anything Goes at Number 5 Restaurant, S. Washington St.,Binghamton, 8 P.M.

OCTOBER 2019

Oct 4 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Oct 11 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Oct 13 - Jazz Brunch at Holiday Inn Arena, Water St., Binghamton, 10-2

Oct 19 - "Fly Me To The Moon" dinner/dance/comedy event at Holiday Inn Arena Ballroom, 6-10 P.M.

Oct 20 - Tri-Cities Opera presents Puccini's "Tosca" at the Forum, Washington St., Binghamton, 3 P.M.

Oct 25 - Moxie Music Trio at Moxie, Conklin Rd., Conklin, 7 P.M.

Oct 26 - light jazz with Anything Goes at Number 5 Restaurant, S. Washington St., Binghamton, 8 P.M.