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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 12 > Drummer Bobby Durham played with jazz legends

Drummer Bobby Durham played with jazz legends

By Dennis Hevesi / The Bulletin
July 12, 2008

Bobby Durham, a drummer whose precise, understated style made him much sought after as a sideman by jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald, died Monday in Genoa, Italy. He was 71 and had homes near Genoa and Basel, Switzerland.

The cause was lung....

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