• Thumbnail for Steve Williams (jazz drummer)
    Stephen Edward Williams (born January 7, 1956) is an American jazz drummer. As leader 2006: New Incentive (Elabeth) With Shirley Horn 1985: The Garden...
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  • Steve Williams may refer to: Steve Williams (born 1953), drummer for the Welsh rock band Budgie Steve Williams (jazz drummer) (born 1956), Shirley Horn's...
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    an American drummer, percussionist, and session musician. Gadd is one of the best-known and highly regarded session and studio drummers in the industry...
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  • Jazz drummers play percussion (predominantly the drum set) in jazz, jazz fusion, and other jazz subgenres such as latin jazz. The techniques and instrumentation...
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    Simon Phillips (born 6 February 1957) is an English jazz fusion and rock drummer, songwriter, and record producer, based in the United States. He worked...
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    Cindy Blackman Santana (category American jazz drummers)
    sometimes known as Cindy Blackman, is an American jazz and rock drummer. Blackman has recorded several jazz albums as a bandleader and has performed with...
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    and jazz drummer, most visibly as a member of progressive rock band King Crimson, as a member of David Lindley's El Rayo-X and as Don Henley's drummer. Wallace...
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  • Kate Williams is a British jazz pianist and composer who formed the jazz ensemble Kate Williams Quartet with saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, flautist Gareth...
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    Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted...
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    Dennis Chambers (category American jazz drummers)
    Chambers (born May 9, 1959) is an American jazz fusion and funk drummer. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2001. Chambers was born...
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  • American jazz drummers. Jazz drummers play percussion (predominantly the drum set) in jazz, jazz fusion, and other jazz subgenres such as latin jazz. The...
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    Omar Hakim (category American jazz drummers)
    (born February 12, 1959) is an American drummer, producer, arranger and composer. His session work covers jazz, jazz fusion, and pop music. He has worked...
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    Billy Cobham (category American jazz drummers)
    William Emanuel Cobham Jr. (born May 16, 1944) is a Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter...
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    collaboration of session musicians including jazz and be-bop player David "Creatchy" Garfield and Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro, replaced after his death by...
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  • Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined...
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    A jazz trio is a group of three jazz musicians, often a piano trio comprising a pianist, a double bass player and a drummer. Jazz trios are commonly named...
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  • South African jazz drummer 30 Fatman Scoop, 53, American rapper Danielle Moore, 52, English downtempo singer (Crazy P) Cunnie Williams, 61, American R&B...
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    Jimmy Chamberlin (category American jazz drummers)
    trained as a jazz drummer and cites jazz musicians Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, and Buddy Rich, as well as rock drummers Keith Moon, Ian...
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    Max Roach (category American jazz drummers)
    Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music...
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    player), drummer Robert "Sput" Searight (Ghost-Note, Snarky Puppy), and keyboardists Dominique "Xavier" Taplin (Prince, Ghost-Note) and Steve Maggiora...
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    Chester Thompson (category American jazz drummers)
    Harrison, a professional jazz drummer from whom he learned his rudiments. Thompson practiced by playing along with albums by jazz musicians Miles Davis,...
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    long-time leader and founding drummer Art Blakey died in 1990. Blakey led or co-led the group from the outset. "Art Blakey" and "Jazz Messengers" became synonymous...
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  • creative centers of jazz in Europe have developed, such as the creative jazz scene in Amsterdam. Following the work of drummer Han Bennink and pianist...
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  • Thumbnail for Steve Kuhn
    Steve Kuhn (born March 24, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator. Kuhn was born in New York City, New York, to...
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    Mornington Lockett Natalie Williams (vocals) Nina Ferro (vocals) Pete Long (saxophone) Ralph Salmins (drums) Steve Fishwick (trumpet) Steve Rushton (drums) In...
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    Bill Bruford (category English jazz drummers)
    several fellow jazz fans, one of them a drummer who gave Bruford lessons in improvisation and a tutorial book by American jazz drummer Jim Chapin. In...
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    Marcus Gilmore (category American jazz drummers)
    10, 1986) is an American jazz drummer. In 2009, New York Times critic Ben Ratliff included Gilmore in his list of drummers who are "finding new ways...
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    Melissa Walker, drummer Billy Hart, and saxophonists Bruce Williams and Mike Lee as they take a break during their performance at the Jazz House Kids Bebop-a-Que...
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    Louie Bellson (category American jazz drummers)
    preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the...
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    a British jazz and rock guitarist, violinist and composer. He contributed to numerous bands, including Soft Machine, U.K., The Tony Williams Lifetime,...
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