A degreed professional musician with a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance, and Master of Music post-graduate work, Bart Elliott has worked for 40+ years in the music and entertainment industry with over 100 album recordings to his credit. His decades of experience exhaustive understanding of contemporary and classical music makes him a complete and skilled master musician.
Bart continues to work as an active drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, music arranger, director, comedian, MC, educator, writer and visual artist. He is the owner and creator of DrummerCafe.com, which he founded in December of 1996.
BIOGRAPHY Keith Moon , the celebrated original drummer for The Who , was born on August 23, 1946, in Harlesden, London, England. Moon was widely acclaimed as the greatest drummer in the history of roc...
BIOGRAPHY Steve Smith , born Steve Elliott Smith on August 21, 1954 in Whitman, Massachusetts, is an American drummer, band leader and educator, best known for his drumming with the iconic rock band,...
BIOGRAPHY Tom Roady , born Thomas W. Roady on April 17, 1949 in Alton, Illinois, was a world renowned percussionist and musical fixture of the Nashville music scene. Growing up in the St.Louis area, s...
BIOGRAPHY Viola Smith , born November 29, 1912, in Mount Calvary, WI, is an American drummer, best known for her work with The Coquettes (1939-1941), an all-girl orchestra, and for using more than 12...
Sam Ulano , born Solomon Paul Ulano on August 12, 1920 in New York City, was a Jewish-American jazz drummer, educator, composer and author. Follow the link below to view the Drummer Cafe tribute page...
Mark Beckett was born in Florence , Alabama, just a stones throw across the river from R&B music mecca, Muscle Shoals. Son of legendary keyboard player and record producer, Barry Beckett, music was al...
Featured musician, Nashville live and studio drummer, Lee Kelley . Watch a video excerpt of Lee performing Boz Scaggs' "Jump Street" for the Nashville Drummers Jam 3.
Featured musician, Nashville live and studio drummer, Sean Paddock . Watch a video of Sean rehearsing Greg Mathieson Project's "Bomp Me" for the Nashville Drummers Jam 3.
Featured musician, Nashville live and studio drummer, Wes Little . Watch video footage of Wes in a rehearsal for the Nashville Drummers Jam 3, playing Donald Fagen's "The Goodbye Look".
Originally from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, drummer Mark Poiesz began his professional music career at the age of 14. After high school, scholarship opportunities led him to the University of Miami,...
BIOGRAPHY Ed Shaughnessy , born Edwin Thomas Shaughnessy on January 29, 1929 in Jersey City, New Jersey, was a Jazz/Big Band drummer, best known for his tenure with Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show...
BIOGRAPHY David L. Heim , born on August 26, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, was a drummer, zoo docent, photographer, model rocketry enthusiast, and Senior Manager of Information Technology for American Ag...
BIOGRAPHY Marvin McQuitty Jr. , born August 30, 1966 in Ann Arbor, MI, was an American drummer best known for his work in Gospel music with such artists as Fred Hammond, Israel & New Breed, Kirk Frank...
BIOGRAPHY Elliot Fine , born May 7, 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, began drumming at the age of 11 and spent his early years playing jazz and backing some of the idiom's greats. His career ran the ga...
BIOGRAPHY Danny Seraphine , born Daniel Peter Seraphine on August 28, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois, was raised in Little Italy and began to play the drums at age nine after watching his uncle play the d...
BIOGRAPHY Legendary jazz drummer and educator, Joseph A. Morello , born on July 17, 1928 in Springfield, Mass, is probably best known by the masses for his odd time signature performances on " Take Fi...
Richard "Dick" James Richardson was born on September 18, 1928, to Harry and Helen Richardson, in Brookfield, Illinois. Dick attended Brookfield High School and DePaul University in the Chicago, IL ar...
BIOGRAPHY Pete Abbott , born on November 9, 1963 in Los Angeles, CA, is a studio and touring drummer who has had careers in New York City, Oslo (Norway) and now Nashville. In addition to being a drumm...
Legendary jazz drummer and bandleader, Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton , died of unknown causes Monday, November 26, 2013 in New York; he was 92. Born on September 20, 1921 in Los Angeles, Chico had a fa...
BIOGRAPHY I was born on September 7th, 1961, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I wear a lot of different hats in the music business where my primary focus is in professional performance work on drumset and h...
BIOGRAPHY Jim Chapin was born James Forbes Chapin in New York City on July 23, 1919. His father was James Ormsbee Chapin, an artist of the American Scene school of painting and his mother was Abigail...
BIOGRAPHY Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni , best known by his stage name, Louie Bellson , was born on July 6, 1924, in Rock Falls, Illinois. His parents were Italian immigrants, and...
Born March 24, 1960 in Leamington, Ontario, Canada, Doug Tann has been a professional drummer for over 30 years. He has performed with Stanley Clarke, Ashford and Simpson, Della Reese, Grammy and Down...
BIOGRAPHY Born in Emporia, KS on November 30, 1935, Roy Burns is one of the few drummers whose career has covered nearly every area of the music business. He's been a big band drummer, a studio drumme...
BIOGRAPHY The Ludwig legacy began in 1909 when William F. Ludwig Sr. and uncle, Theobald Ludwig, created the Ludwig & Ludwig Drum Company . The company was originally built around a bass drum pedal th...
BIOGRAPHY Carlos "Patato" Valdes was born in Cuba on November 4, 1926, and lived in New York City since 1954. Tito Puente referred to him as "the greatest conguero alive today." As a legendary conguer...
BIOGRAPHY Born July 2, 1959, Keith Cronin is best known as the drummer behind artists like Clarence Clemons and Pat Travers . Keith's interest in drumming can probably be traced back to the 60's, when...
BIOGRAPHY Born September 25, 1954, a 10 year old David Crigger came home from school one day all fired up. He had just experienced one of those “here’s what the different instruments sound and look li...
BIOGRAPHY Born in Chicago on August 18, 1956, drums came into Jon's family from Wm. Ludwig Jr. as a gift to Jon's older brother in return for some advertising work their father did for the drum compan...
