Drummond at the 2013 Detroit Jazz Festival
Ray Drummond (born November 23, 1946 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is a jazz bassist and teacher. He also has an MBA from Stanford University, hence his linkage to the Stanford Jazz Workshop. He can be heard on hundreds of albums and co-leads The Drummonds with Renee Rosnes and (not related) Billy Drummond.
Drummond has been a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, since 1980 with his wife, Susan, and his daughter, Maya.
He is the elder brother of David Drummond, senior vice president, corporate development and chief legal officer of Google Inc.
Ray Drummond at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay, California, July 8, 2017