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Kimberly Thompson

Born: March 28, 1981

A Different Drummer, Part 5: Terri Lyne Carrington

by Karl Ackermann
August 23, 2021

In her 2003 Carnegie Mellon University paper Experience West African Drumming: A Study of West African Dance-Drumming and Women Drummers, Leslie Marie Mullins explains that drumming was explicitly the territory of male musicians in West Africa. Mullins reveals that several myths were employed to keep women and drums far apart. Among them, Ghanaian women were thought ...

Kimberly Thompson to Drum with House Band for NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers

February 11, 2014

Former St. Louisan Kimberly Thompson has been chosen to fill the drum chair in the house band for NBC's Late Night With Seth Meyers. Known as The 8G Band (after the studio where the show will be taped), the group will perform on the program Monday through Friday starting on Monday, February 24, when Meyers, former ...

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By Kimberly Thompson

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2004