Chicago drummer Charles Rumback keeps busy working in many groups with a wide variety of backgrounds. In addition to leading his own quartet, he is also currently a member of Via Tania, The Horse's Ha and Colorlist. Though his role sometimes varies from project to project, Charles can be found accompanying songs, pushing the ensemble in free-improvised settings, or creating sonic landscapes all from behind the drumkit.

Originally from Kansas, Charles relocated to Chicago in 2001 and has ramped up his creative output since then, playing on many recordings as a sideman/collaborator and performing around the U.S. and Japan with several different bands. In 2006 he played with Ron Miles on Jason Steele's debut recording 'Some Wonderful Moment' which Rumback and Steele co-produced. Since then Charles went to Japan for performances with Costa Music and L'altra. He also performed and toured the US and Canada promoting 'Of the Cathmawr Yards', the new recording from The Horse's Ha featuring Janet Bean, Jim Elkington, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Nick Macri.

Charles' first recording as a leader 'Two Kinds of Art Thieves' was released in 2009 on Clean Feed Records. The quartet recording features Greg Ward, Joshua Sclar and Jason Ajemian. The band has performed in Chicago and in New York at the Clean Feed Festival.

Future plans include shows with his quartet as well as a new recording by Colorlist scheduled for release in January of 2010 on 482 music. Charles is currently working on music to be released in the near future by Leaf Bird, Via Tania and The Zoo Wheel. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.