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Pete La Roca’s decision to keep music in 1968 and be a lawyer (in his first name of Pete Sims) trim short a successful career. He began his profession playing timbales in Latin rings, changing his name to Pete La Roca at that time. He performed drums with Sonny Rollins …

The older brother of Eddie Palmieri, Charlie Palmieri was just as gifted a pianist as his sibling, extremely percussive and attentive to rhythm while also flashing florid passages which were clearly the merchandise of the classical education. His piano research started at seven and he went to the Juilliard College …

As an associate from the groundbreaking Ornette Coleman-led quartet that launched the free jazz renaissance, Billy Higgins remains to be probably one of the most important and controversial drummers in music background. An uncommonly flexible and intuitive participant, his nimble rhythmic patterns accomplished a perfect stability between function and type, …