Smith was a dominant factor in the big-band era. Known for her use of a giant drum set, she became one of the first female drummers in popular music, reported Music Radar. Born into a family of 10 ...

The second thing he did was assemble 15 crack session men for the Tommy Igoe Big Band. It plays every Monday night at the Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko, with Igoe, 47, as bandleader and drummer.

Nick Fatool, 85, jazz drummer who played with a succession of top-ranked big bands in the late 1930s and early ‘40s. Born in Milbury, Mass., Fatool began drumming while in high school in ...

CINCINNATI -- John Von Ohlen, a legendary jazz drummer and co-founder of the Blue Wisp Big Band, has died. He was 77. Von Ohlen was introduced to big band music at a very young age. In an ...

Big band jazz is his religion. The cymbals, his choir. He knows that now, having spent 20 years searching for spiritual meaning as a follower of a Hindu monk he called “Master.” ...