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b. 31 August 1960, Beckenham, Kent, Britain. A self-taught drummer who combines power with agility and accuracy, Sanders started his career using a disco music group at UK American Surroundings Power bases. He considered jazz in 1984, learning with Will Evans who, along with Elvin Jones and Tony Oxley, was …

English multi-instrumentalist Django Bates is usually famous for his razor razor-sharp wit as a new player, composer, and arranger. Bates founded the quartet Human being String in 1979 — an organization that’s still collectively in the 21st hundred years — and it is, along with Courtney Pine and Iain Ballamy, …