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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)
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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 ...
While the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos.
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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 ...