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Al Grey
Al Grey
American jazz musician
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Keter Betts
Keter Betts
American jazz musician
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Harry Edison
Harry Edison
American trumpeter
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
American saxophonist
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Jimmie Smith
Jimmie Smith
American jazz drummer
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Ed Thigpen
Ed Thigpen
American jazz drummer
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John Heard
John Heard
American musician and sculptor
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Zoot Sims
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
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Clark Terry
Clark Terry
American swing and bebop musician
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Joe Newman
Joe Newman
American musician
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Chris Columbus
Chris Columbus
American jazz drummer
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Tommy Potter
Tommy Potter
American musician
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Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Mickey Roker
Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer
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Buster Cooper
Buster Cooper
American trombonist
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George Duvivier
George Duvivier
American musician
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Freddie Green
Freddie Green
American jazz guitarist
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Martin Drew
Martin Drew
British musician
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Frank Wess
Frank Wess
American saxophonist and flautist, composer and arranger
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Britt Woodman
Britt Woodman
American jazz trombonist
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Jimmy Forrest
Jimmy Forrest
African American jazz musician
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Al Aarons
Al Aarons
American jazz trumpeter
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Milt Jackson
Milt Jackson
American musician
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Buddy DeFranco
Buddy DeFranco
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader
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Percy Heath
Percy Heath
American musician
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Major Holley
Major Holley
American jazz upright bassist
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Tommy Flanagan
Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
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Butch Ballard
Butch Ballard
American jazz drummer
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Jo Jones
Jo Jones
American jazz drummer
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Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt
American jazz saxophonist
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Billy Mitchell
Billy Mitchell
American jazz tenor saxophonist
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Ike Isaacs
Ike Isaacs
American jazz bassist
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Louis Hayes
Louis Hayes
American drummer
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Roy McCurdy
Roy McCurdy
jazz drummer
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Charlie Fowlkes
Charlie Fowlkes
American musician
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Gus Johnson
Gus Johnson
American musician
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Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet
American jazz tenor saxophonist, songwriter
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Herb Ellis
Herb Ellis
American jazz guitarist
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Joe Comfort
Joe Comfort
American musician
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Butch Miles
Butch Miles
American jazz drummer
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Ernie Wilkins
Ernie Wilkins
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and music arranger
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Paul Smith
Paul Smith
jazz pianist from the United States
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J. C. Heard
J. C. Heard
American musician
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Ray Brown
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
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Booty Wood
Booty Wood
American jazz musician
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Wild Bill Davis
Wild Bill Davis
American jazz pianist, organist, and arranger
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Urbie Green
Urbie Green
American jazz trombonist
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Bill Hughes
Bill Hughes
jazz musician
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Speedy Jones
Speedy Jones
American drummer
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Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
American trumpeter
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Frank Foster
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
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Taft Jordan
Taft Jordan
Jazz trumpeter
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Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson
American jazz drummer, a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator
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Norman Granz
Norman Granz
American jazz musician and producer
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Alvin Stoller
Alvin Stoller
American musician
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George Mraz
George Mraz
Czech jazz bassist
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Buddy Tate
Buddy Tate
American musician
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Pepper Adams
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
Bobby Durham
American musician

Bobby Durham

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Bobby Durham (February 3, 1937 – July 6, 2008) was an American jazz drummer.

Durham was born in Philadelphia and learned to play drums while a child. He played with The Orioles at age 16, and was in a military band between 1956 and 1959. After his discharge, he played with King James and Stan Hunter. In 1960, he moved to New York City, where he played with Lloyd Price, Wild Bill Davis, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Slide Hampton, Grant Green, Sweets Edison, Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Rowles, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, in which he played for five months. While working with Basie, he met Al Grey, and was a member of several of Grey's small ensembles. He accompanied Ella Fitzgerald for more than a decade, and worked with Oscar Peterson in a trio setting.

Durham also played in trios with organists such as Charles Earland and Shirley Scott, and there was a resurgence in interest in Durham's work during the acid jazz upswing in the 1990s. Many of Durham's projects, both as sideman and as leader, came about because of his association with producer Norman Granz, who used in perfomances with Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Harry Edison, Tommy Flanagan, and Joe Pass. Durham led his own combos as well; he is noted for scat singing along with his drum solos. Durham has also performed often with pop and soul musicians such as Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Ray Charles, and Marvin Gaye.

He died of lung cancer in Genoa, Italy, aged 71.