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Ed Shaughnessy
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| Ed Shaughnessy (born 1929): Along with Louis Bellson, Ed Shaughnessy is perhaps the greatest living big band drummer. Although he came to national prominence as a featured member of Doc Severinson's "Tonight Show" orchestra and continues to record and tour with that aggregation, his jazz credentials are also impeccable. After playing with such giants as Jack Teagarden and George Shearing in the latter 1940s, he really made his "name" with the popular Charlie Ventura group of 1948 to 1949. In the big band area, Shaughnessy has driven the orchestras of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Count Basie, as well as the innovative small groups of Teddy Charles, Horace Silver, Roland Kirk and Mundell Lowe. After Bellson and Dave Black, he was also among the first to use two bass drums as part of the kit, though in Shaughnessy's case, one bass drum was smaller than the other. He has always remained at the forefront of the jazz education movement, serving as a friend and mentor to hundreds of drummers. |
