Nick Stabulas

Nicholas Stabulas ( born December 18, 1929 in New York; † February 6, 1973 in Great Neck, NY) was an American jazz drummer.

Stabulas began his career in commercial music; then from 1954 to 1957, he worked for Phil Woods. He also worked as a sideman with busy recording sessions in the 1950s; so he played with Jon Eardley (1955 /56), Jimmy Raney ( 1955-57 ), Eddie Costa (1956 ), Friedrich Gulda (1956 ), George Wallington (1956 /57), Al Cohn ( 1956/57, 1960 ) Zoot Sims ( 1957), Gil Evans ( Gil Evans and Ten, 1957), Mose Allison (1957 /58), Carmen McRae (1958) and Don Elliott ( 1958). In the 1960s he worked with Chet Baker, Kenny Drew, Bill Evans, Warne Marsh and Lennie Tristano. He died in February 1973 near Great Neck in a traffic accident.

Swell

  • Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
  • Jazz drummer
  • American musician
  • Born in 1929
  • Died in 1973
  • Man
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