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This category contains drummers playing in big bands. Pages in category "Big band drummers" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929) (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band) Ray Anthony (born 1922) Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971) Georgie Auld (1919-1990) (Georgie Auld and His Orchestra, Georgie Auld and His Hollywood All Stars)
Rich was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents Bess Skolnik and Robert Rich, both American vaudevillians. [5]: 6 At 18 months old, he became part of his parents' vaudeville act, dressed in a sailor suit playing an arrangement of The Stars and Stripes Forever behind a large bass and snare drum - an act which concluded with him emerging from behind the drums tap-dancing ...
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Although best known as a big band drummer, Shaughnessy also performed small group work with Gene Ammons, Roy Eldridge, Billie Holiday, Mundell Lowe, Teo Macero, Charles Mingus, Shirley Scott, Jack Sheldon, Horace Silver, and many others. For several years Shaughnessy was a member of the house band at Birdland and other New York clubs.
Eugene Bertram Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) [1] was an American jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer. [2] [3] Krupa is widely regarded as one of the most influential drummers in the history of popular music.
William "Benny" Benjamin (July 25, 1925 – April 20, 1969), [1] [a] nicknamed Papa Zita, [4] was an American musician, most notable as the primary drummer for the Motown Records studio band The Funk Brothers. [5] He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 and was named the eleventh best drummer of all time by Rolling Stone ...
Saxophonist and band leader Paul Winter called Jones "the personification of jazz." [15] Music critic Bruce H. Klauber has written that, "Jones is the quintessential big-band drummer with a crisp, clean sound notable for the high-pitched snare drum crack." [1] Critic Jess Hamlin called Jones, "One of the best drummers in the business."