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New Orleans drumming innovator Reed Vaughan, 75, dies

Source: Charles Suhor
January 7, 2012

Drummer Reed Vaughan, 75, died in New Orleans on December 29, 2011. Vaughan attended Holy Cross High School and played during his early teens in a Dixieland group with trumpeter Murphy Campo and clarinetist Pee Wee Spitilera. At age 16 he studied with drummer Lou Dillon, the versatile leader of the pit band at the Sho-Bar on Bourbon Street, and gained skills in reading and coordinated hand/foot independence. He rapidly became a premier modern jazz artist, jamming frequently with young ...

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