Willis Robert "Billy" Drummond, Jr. (b. Newport News, Virginia, June 19, 1959) is an American jazz drummer.
Drummond learned jazz from an early age from his father, who was a drummer and a jazz enthusiast. He played in bands from age eight and studied at Shenandoah Conservatory. He moved to New York at the behest of Al Foster in 1986. Since then Drummond has played and/or recorded with Out of the Blue (1988-89), Joe Henderson (1988-89), Horace Si...
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Willis Robert "Billy" Drummond, Jr. (b. Newport News, Virginia, June 19, 1959) is an American jazz drummer.
Drummond learned jazz from an early age from his father, who was a drummer and a jazz enthusiast. He played in bands from age eight and studied at Shenandoah Conservatory. He moved to New York at the behest of Al Foster in 1986. Since then Drummond has played and/or recorded with Out of the Blue (1988-89), Joe Henderson (1988-89), Horace Silver (1989), Ralph Moore (1989 and subsequently), John Faddis (1989-91), Walt Weiskopf (1990 to 2002), Sam Newsome (1990), Bobby Hutcherson (1990 to the present), Buster Williams (1990-93), Charles Tolliver (1991), Lew Tabackin and Toshiko Akiyoshi (from 1991), Hank Jones (1991), Nat Adderley (1991), John Swana (1991, 1993), Vincent Herring (1991-93), James Moody (early 1990s), Steve Kuhn (from 1992 to the present), Sonny Rollins (1994-95), Andy LaVerne (1994), Lee Konitz (1995), Dave Stryker (1996), George Colligan (1997), Ted Rosenthal,...
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