Carter Skillicorn is an accomplished studio and live drummer, providing versatile, professional drumming services across a wide range of genres. With a robust background in studio work, he delivers high-quality, custom-tailored drum tracks for artists, with recorded performances featured on BBC Jazz Nights, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 3, Jazz FM, and Blue-In-Green Radio, showcasing his technical expertise and musical adaptability.
Carter’s live performance experience is extensive, having toured the UK and Europe with acts like acclaimed composer, guitarist and Scottish Jazz Award nominee, Honza Kourimsky’s jazz-fusion band Mahuki, in which he is a part of. They have shared stages with renowned musicians including UK jazz titan Soweto Kinch, kitti, Tomas Jochmann and Liam Shortall of corto.alto.
He has played at major festivals like Edinburgh International Festival, Lancaster Jazz Festival, The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, Beladrum Festival, The Edinburgh Fringe, Kelburn Garden Party, Solfest and Fynefest. He also leads his own rising funk ensemble, Carter & the Killer-Horns, which has gained a dedicated following and in 2024 headlined the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival’s Mardi Gras. In addition, he has played with “Edinburgh’s Gospel Queen,” Kat Brooks for many years, most notably for two consecutive sell-out years in her Edinburgh Fringe show Etta and Gladys: Glamour and Grit, celebrating the legacies of greats Etta James and Gladys Knight.
Carter has performed at iconic venues like Pizza Express Live Holborn, The Jazz Dock in Prague, The Adelphi, Peggy’s Skylight, The Usher Hall, The St.Brides Centre and The Blue Lamp. Carter combines top-tier equipment, professionalism, and a genre-spanning approach that ensures exceptional results in every studio session, live show, and private event.