Pete "La Roca" Sims (born Peter Sims; April 7, 1938 – November 20, 2012, known as Pete La Roca from 1957 until 1968) was an American jazz drummer and attorney...
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Basra (album) (category Pete La Roca albums)
album by drummer Pete La Roca, recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label. Bassist Steve Swallow recounted that he and La Roca had taken LSD prior...
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Kenny Dorham, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Butch Warren and drummer Pete La Roca. The pieces on the album were written by either Henderson or Dorham,...
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Turkish Women at the Bath (category Pete La Roca albums)
Turkish Women at the Bath is an album by drummer Pete La Roca which features saxophonist John Gilmore and pianist Chick Corea. It was recorded in 1967...
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Swallow and drummer Pete La Roca during the 1960s on several notable recordings: Three Waves, under Kuhn's leadership; Basra, under La Roca's leadership, which...
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performances by Henderson, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, pianist Andrew Hill, drummer Pete La Roca and bassist Eddie Khan of originals by Henderson and Dorham. The CD reissue...
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Freddie Hubbard, pianist Kenny Drew, bassist Doug Watkins and drummer Pete La Roca. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars and stated:...
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drummer Pete LaRoca. In 2009, Resonance Records reissued five tracks from Memories for Scotty on Pieces of Jade, together with twenty-two minutes of LaFaro...
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trumpeter Donald Byrd and rhythm section Walter Davis Jr., Paul Chambers and Pete La Roca. The AllMusic review by Steve Huey states, "New Soil wasn't the first...
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Pete Sims may refer to: Pete La Roca (Pete Sims, 1938–2012), American jazz drummer Pete Sims (baseball) (1891–1968), Major League Baseball pitcher This...
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Russell with Garnett Brown, Paul Plummer, Don Ellis, Steve Swallow, and Pete La Roca and features the recording debut of vocalist Sheila Jordan on one track...
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participated in recording sessions with Bley, Hill (Andrew!!! and Compulsion), Pete La Roca (Turkish Women at the Bath), McCoy Tyner (Today and Tomorrow) and a handful...
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the Royal Roost. Having moved to Sweden in 1956, Harris stepped in for Pete La Roca in Sonny Rollins's trio for some dates in Stockholm, and worked with...
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Butch Warren and Pete La Roca Blue Note 1963 1963-09 Our Thing Quintet with Kenny Dorham, Andrew Hill, Eddie Khan and Pete La Roca Blue Note 1964 1964-04...
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Manhattan. Coltrane initially hired pianist Steve Kuhn and drummer Pete "La Roca" Sims for his group, along with bassist Steve Davis, but by September...
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City. After moving through different personnel, including Steve Kuhn, Pete La Roca, and Billy Higgins, he kept pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Steve Davis...
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piano Larry Ridley – bass Pete LaRoca – drums Danny "Big Black" Rey – congas Wynn, Ron. The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club la Marchal at AllMusic Swenson...
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Andrew Hill (Black Fire, 1963 and Point of Departure, 1964) and drummer Pete La Roca (Basra, 1965). In 1967, there was a brief association with Miles Davis's...
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Sandwich" contains uncredited samples from "Bliss", written and performed by Pete La Roca; and an uncredited interpolation of "Party Up (Up in Here)", written...
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Peraza, Wild Thing (Skye, 1968) Dave Pike, Manhattan Latin (Decca, 1964) Pete La Roca, Turkish Women at the Bath (Douglas, 1967) – reissued under Corea's name...
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(b. 1975) 2012 – William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (b. 1914) 2012 – Pete La Roca, American jazz drummer (b. 1938) 2012 – Ivan Kušan, Croatian writer (b...
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Jarvis, Big Black, Kiane Zawadi, Hank Mobley, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, Pete LaRoca. The CD release added tracks from a 1966 session featuring Hosea Taylor...
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Scott LaFaro. It consists of five tracks dating from 1961 featuring LaFaro in a trio format with pianist Don Friedman and drummer Pete La Roca, a 23-minute...
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Henderson - tenor saxophone Duke Pearson - piano Bob Cranshaw - bass Pete La Roca (tracks 4–6), Walter Perkins (tracks 1–3) - drums Billboard Mar 28, 1964...
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the second tour while the quartet, which included Swallow and drummer Pete La Roca, was engaged in Berlin, and a pianist replaced him; this was ultimately...
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two in the evening, with different rhythm sections: Donald Bailey and Pete LaRoca, and Wilbur Ware and Elvin Jones, respectively. The recording was made...
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Kovács (born 1929) Joe LaBarbera (born 1948) Thomas Lang (born 1967) Pete La Roca (1938–2012) Papa Jack Laine (1873–1966) Bill LaVorgna (1933–2007) Ricky...
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(Inner Ear, 2010) Sheila Jordan, Portrait Of Sheila (Blue Note, 1963) Pete La Roca, Basra (Blue Note, 1965) Joe Lovano, Universal Language (Blue Note, 1992)...
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Free (Limelight, 1966) Clifford Jordan: Repetition (Soul Note, 1984) Pete La Roca – Turkish Women at the Bath (Douglas, 1967) Charles McPherson: Horizons...
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Vanguard, "A Night in Tunisia": Sonny Rollins (ts), Don Bailey (b), Pete LaRoca (d). Blue Note: November 3, 1957. Encyclopedia of Urban Legends WOR History...
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