Tim Proznick

I grew up in a family of jazz musicians, music educators, and music lovers. My father and dedicated mentor, Dave Proznick who’s now retired, built one of the most successful high school music programs in North America in their home town of White Rock,BC at Semiahmoo Secondary. Papa Proznick has been Nationally recognized and honoured as one of the best jazz music educators in current Canadian history , for his life’s work in music education and passionate future generation direction; David Proznick recently was given an honorary doctorate in music. Yes, he is a real life music doctor. Giving young Tim the best education , and passionate creative direction any budding creator could ask for. I was lucky enough to have been given drums at the tender age of 3 yrs old and always had music and musicians around. My parents would host parties and jam sessions and put little Timmy on the drums in between sets. I was constantly infactuted with them. In those days it was pots and pans with chop sticks, and in the mornings pillows so I wouldn’t wake everyone up. By the age of 8 years old I discovered Rush and was learning Neil Pearts drum parts, or simply putting on the radio and playing along to whatever was on at the time. My father spent years as a band leader touring playing trumpet and drums and being the lead singer of the “Dave Douglas Quintet” before settling down in the Westcoast to pursue his teaching career and raise a family. Both my sisters are in music as well. My older sister Jodi has been nominated for multiple Junos for her records, and has developed and runs the jazz program at the Orpheum in Vancouver. My middle sister Kelly runs the music department at New West Secondary, and also sings and tours around the world in different choral groups. Both my brother in laws are heavy musicians. Tilden Webb, Jodi’s husband is one of the first call session players on keys/piano, and Jesse Cahill, Kelly’s husband is one of the baddest jazz drummers and phenomenal banjo players around. Regarding my career, I was lucky enough at a young age to tour nationally and internationally competing through my dads music program. From the age 13-17 I won a multiple awards both locally,and international. I was nationally recognized from Zildjian as the best high school drummer in Canada, then at the Lionel Hampton Jazz fest (the biggest jazz fest in N. America at the time) winning the best drummer in the AAAA division at the festival performing in front of 18,000 people by the age of 16, rubbing shoulders with some of the most influential jazz artists of our time such as Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Ray Brown, Karriem Riggins, Elvin Jones, Joe Lovano, and many many more. Aside from the jazz world, I started playing legendary Vancouver clubs like the Starfish Room and festivals around Vancouver and BC with the Bachman family at 15 yrs old. My first gig at the Commodore Ballroom was at the age of 17 year old, opening for Nazareth, getting a call 5 hours before the gig, subbing for Daniel Adair (Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Martone). After graduation I received a scholarship to Humber college in Toronto where I spent a couple yrs before moving back to Vancouver to play full time. I’ve built a reputation as a first call session drummer and have now recorded, played, and toured across North America and Europe with artists such as Carly Rae Jepsen, Pomo, K-OS, Shad, Daniel Wesley, Maestro Fresh Wes, Swollen Members, Hey Ocean, Kim Churchill, The Washboard Union, Hannah Georgas, Ryan Guildemond (Mother Mother), Kyprios and the Chaperones, Sweatshop Union, Brevner, The Odds, Shaun Verrault and Wide Mouth Mason, Chin Injeti, Richie Sambora, Bob Rock, Orianthi (Michael Jackson’s guitarist) Ray Angry (Keys player with The Roots/D’angelo), Mark Whitfield (Chris Botti), Jully Black, Dominique Xavier (Toto, Ghostnote/Snarky Puppy), Chris Tarry and Brad Turner (Metalwood) and on and on... Being a session player with fundamentals in jazz provides a foundation, knowledge, and feel for pretty much any genre you can think of. Im now endorsed by D’addario, Evans Drumheads, & Promark drumsticks, and have a very deep and close relationship with the Davidson family. Learning to really cherish and care and respect these friendships and relationships has been a very important aspect to my career and work. I also work with Yamaha drums, Dunnett Classic snares, and Zion Cymbals and was featured on the cover of Drums Etc in 2008 with a 4 page article. Ive now changed my focus into building “Baptone Productions“ and have been building a state of the art music studio production space. I’ve helped produce an ad for a collaboration with Adidas/Livestock, and had the video built around my feature in the commercial for their “Rhythm” brand. Ive also found a passion for teaching young inspired youth, not only drumming, but with current production techniques, and studio approach. Most recently I've been producing/writing tracks for “Drumeo” (The biggest online drum community in the world) for their members, and my first track and video entitled "Deep in the Cut" went Viral with 200,00 views in just over 2 weeks with people all over the world, and currently sitting at 453,000 views. This has led me in the direction of focusing on releasing my own solo work in the near future, aside from producing/writing with other artists. I’m going to be releasing a record of my own material called "Life Guided Through Rhythm" that I’ve written & produced, that features collaborations with many different artists, friends, and influences I’ve worked with in my life such as Moka Only, Kapok, Tonye Aganaba, Tim Fuller, Aaron Ross of the Boom Booms, Ashley Wey, Louis Rudner and more. Im excited to see what the future holds, connecting with new young talent, and be a apart of this ever changing industry in new exciting ways.

Blazing Eraz - Deep In The Cut

My first self produced release