Results for "Richie Pratt"

Richie Pratt

Born: March 11, 1943

Beginnings - Kansas City

Richie Pratt (March 11, 1943 – February 12, 2015, born Richard Dean Tyree) was an American jazz drummer. He embarked upon a career as a professional musician on the New York scene in the early 1970s, it was as much due to an unanticipated sporting injury as anything else. Pratt was born into a musical family (his mother was a church pianist and a brother is saxophonist, Chris Burnett) and grew up in the Kansas City metro city of Olathe, Kansas. He first studied music via the piano, as well as, attended various music camps as a youth prior to attending college as a music major at the University of Kansas.

Jimmy Rowles

by Carol Sloane
August 25, 2023

Part 1 I had just finished my night's work at a long-since vanished jazz club in Greenwich Village called Hopper's. I was singing with The New York Jazz Quartet: Sir Roland Hanna, George Mraz, Richie Pratt, and Frank Wess. The year was 1977. Mraz said he was going to walk over to Bradley's* to listen to ...

Drummer, Richie Pratt (March 11, 1943 - February 12, 2015)

February 15, 2015

"It is with sadness that I inform you of the passing of drummer, Richie Pratt (March 11, 1943 - February 12, 2015) at his home in the Kansas City metro area", stated Artists Recording Collective label COO, Christopher Burnett. “Richie was a prolific musician on the New York City and global jazz scenes as mostly a ...

Olathe

By Richie Pratt

Label: ARC - Artists Recording Collective
Released: 2007