Damon Sawyer is an effective efficient drummer with good beat and excellent tempo, able to play funk or mix high quality jazz with other musical genres Besides Sawyer is a sound engineer, record producer and has his own recording studio at Wokinham, Berks, UK Strutin’ South is a conceptual ambitious album, done with a great talent and class, which basically includes cool tasteful instrumental jazz fusion Damon is backed by a bunch of respected European musicians with a huge pedigree, such as saxo player Anatoliy Vyacheslavov who, with his amazing solos, becomes the absolute album leader A cd with original material that faithfully shows the varied influences Damon Sawyer has got along his thirty eight years of life