drummer

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The only other drummer I know that does that is Jim Keltner.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Starr: I’m the drummer — that’s how it works.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

The jazz virtuoso has an unusually, appealingly laid-back sound on a new archival release, recorded with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen in Detroit in 1960.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Yet this was hardly Peterson’s only virtue: Live recordings, especially of his greatest trio, with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen, show that Peterson could also swing harder than anybody.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

When I first found this out at a rehearsal, the other drummer, Brian, was telling me what to call all the different people: Who’s that?

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick