Sherrie Maricle

{{short description|American drummer}}

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| birth_name = Sharon Lee Maricle

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| alias = Sherrie Maricle

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|09|02}}

| birth_place = Buffalo, New York, U.S.

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| genre = Jazz

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| instrument = Drums

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| label = Arbors, Lightyear Entertainment

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| website = [http://divajazz.com/ Diva Jazz]

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Sharon Lee "Sherrie" Maricle (born September 2, 1963, Buffalo, New York) is an American jazz drummer.{{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Gary W. |chapter=Maricle, Sherrie |editor-last=Kernfeld |editor-first=Barry |editor-link=Barry Kernfeld |date=2002 |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz |chapter-url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/J632300 |edition=2nd |publisher=Oxford University Press |chapter-url-access=subscription}}

Maricle's musical education began in the fourth grade when she started with the clarinet after being told that the trumpet was off-limits to girls.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/03/09/105670115/sherrie-maricle-on-piano-jazz |title=Sherrie Maricle on Piano Jazz |last=Hayden |first=Sandy |date=June 19, 2009 |website=NPR.org |publisher=National Public Radio |access-date=October 26, 2022}} She moved on to the cello and settled on the drums in the sixth grade after seeing Buddy Rich play. Maricle began playing professionally, performing locally with Slam Stewart, while studying music (BA 1985) at SUNY-Binghamton. She then moved to New York City and attended New York University where she completed a Master's of Arts in Jazz Performance in 1986 and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Jazz Performance/Composition in 2000. In the late 1980s, she was appointed director of percussion studies at NYU.{{cite web |url=http://www.divajazz.com/sherrie.html |title=Sherrie Maricle, Leader |author= |date=n.d. |website=DIVA Jazz Orchestra |access-date=October 26, 2022}}

Maricle directed Saturday jam sessions at the Village Gate from 1987 until the venue closed in 1993. Beginning in 1987, she also began collaborating and leading small groups with Peter Appleyard. In the 1990s, she performed with the New York Pops, Clark Terry, and Al Grey and began working with the group DIVA.

Maricle currently leads the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, the DIVA Jazz Trio, and the quintet Five Play. She teaches on the jazz faculty of the New York State Summer Music Festival, as well as running her own private drum and percussion studio. In 2009, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival.