Latest Drum News Bryan St. Pere, the drummer of Champaign, Illinois alternative rock group Hum, has died. He was 52. A cause of death was not given. Hum was co-founded by Talbott in 1989. St. […]
Latest Drum News Kyodo News reports Shuichi “Ponta” Murakami, a Japanese drummer who was a studio musician for composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and saxophonist Sadao Watanabe, died March 9th of thalamic bleeding at a Tokyo hospital, […]
Latest Drum News Hannah Frishberg of The New York Post posted on May 26th the following article: Kevin Clark, the child actor who played Freddy “Spazzy McGee” Jones in the 2003 film “School of Rock,” […]
Latest Drum News Buddy Deppenschmidt, a drummer and teacher who made a significant contribution to jazz history by helping to spark the international bossa nova craze in the 1960s, passed away on Saturday, March 20, […]
Latest Drum News Drummer John Hinch, who played on Judas Priest’s debut album, 1974’s “Rocka Rolla”, has died. He was 73 years old. Hinch died on 29 April 2021, after falling ill the previous day. […]
Latest Drum News The drumming icon Roger Hawkins has passed away (October 16, 1945 – May 20, 2021). If you are not familiar with his name you will be with his work as Hawkins’s drumming […]
Latest Drum News : Don Heffington (December 20, 1950 – March 24, 2021) was an American drummer, percussionist, and songwriter. He was a founding member of the band Lone Justice, and a member of the bluegrass […]
Latest Drum News : The Puerto Rican percussionist Jimmie Morales, who was the conguero (a Latin American dance of three steps and a kick to each bar.) of the orchestra of his compatriot Gilberto Santa […]
Sad news as both the drumming and jazz world has lost one of its greats; Ralph Peterson Jr. Ralph passed away today (March 1st, 2021) at the age of 58 of complications to cancer. He […]
Chick Corea, the virtuosic keyboardist, bandleader, drummer, percussionist, who broadened the scope of jazz during a career spanning more than five decades, died on Tuesday February 9th from a rare form of cancer. A post […]
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