Ed Shaughnessy

Ed Shaughnessy was most widely known being the drummer from the Tonight Present Music group for 29 years beneath the leadership of Doc Severinsen. He put together an extraordinary réamounté, having regularly used the legends from the genre young. Born in Shirt City, NJ on January 29, 1929, Shaughnessy started playing drums at age group 14. Five years later on he was playing expertly with George Shearing and Bud Powell. His selection of qualifications contains stints with Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman, and Horace Metallic, in addition to many symphony orchestras. Shaughnessy led his personal big music group, Energy Pressure, and trained at NY University alongside conducting drum treatment centers at Skidmore University in NY. His percussion credits show up on over 500 recordings. Shaughnessy passed away of a coronary attack at his house in Calabasas, California on, may 24, 2013; he was 84 yrs . old.