Pete La Roca

Inventive 60s jazz drummer who played with Rollins, Coltrane and GetzTo Pete La Roca, the American jazz drummer and composer, who has died aged 74, jazz was a swinging music that contained the promise of surprise. When jazz stopped swinging, and stopped being the sound of surprise, it stopped being jazz. So he stopped playing.Not that La Roca was a reactionary. In the 1960s he was among the brigade of young musicians who accelerated the music's evolutionary process, and as an individual he had e...

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