drummer

Example Sentences

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Drummers love to say that you’re their favorite drummer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

The only other drummer I know that does that is Jim Keltner.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

“Let There Be Love” finds the drummer using his hands on his tom-toms to make them sound like congas, giving the track an Erroll Garner flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

The jazz virtuoso has an unusually, appealingly laid-back sound on a new archival release, recorded with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen in Detroit in 1960.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

After two songs, the fiddle and horn carried on alone while the drummer went around hat in hand ungraciously accepting the pennies doled out to him.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith