American Jazz Drummer
1. Sonny Payne (1926)
American Jazz Drummer
Jazz drummer who collaborated with musicians Harry James and Count Basie. He also performed for a time with the big band of Erskine Hawkins.
2. Joe Morello (1928)
American Jazz Drummer
Jazz drummer who played with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. With the band, he performed such famous and rhythmically innovative numbers as "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and "Take Five."
3. Butch Miles (1944)
American Jazz Drummer
Jazz drummer who has performed with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
4. Billy Cobham (1944)
American Jazz Drummer
Jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader who has worked with Miles Davis and has also pursued a successful solo career.
5. Frank Gant (1931)
American Jazz Drummer
Gant is a jazz drummer. Gant recorded with Donald Byrd Sonny Stitt and extensively with Yusef Lateef in the late 1950s and then Red Garland before becoming a member of...
6. Victor Lewis (1950)
American Jazz Drummer
British jazz guitarist see Vic LewisVictor Lewis is an American jazz drummer.
7. Ralph Peterson, Jr. (1962)
American Jazz Drummer
Ralph Peterson Jr. is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Four of Peterson's uncles and his grandfather were all drummers and Peterson himself began on percussion at age three....
8. Pheeroan akLaff (1955)
American Jazz Drummer
Pheeroan akLaff is an American jazz drummer. Pheeroan akLaff began playing in his hometown of Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan with Travis Biggs Ars Nova The Ebony Set The Last...
9. Adam Nussbaum (1955)
American Jazz Drummer
Adam Nussbaum is an American jazz musician.
10. Sherrie Maricle (1963)
American Jazz Drummer
Sharon Lee Sherrie Maricle is an American jazz drummer. Maricle's musical education began in the fourth grade when she started with the clarinet after being told that the trumpet was...
