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Berklee School of Music
- Upon graduating from high school, Herschel moved to Boston to attend the Berklee School of Music. At Berklee, he came under the tutelage of legendary drummer and teacher Alan Dawson.
www.weatherreportdiscography.org/the-boogie-woogie-waltz-man/“The Boogie Woogie Waltz Man”—Remembering Herschel Dwellingham
Weather Report fans who know him solely from his work on Sweetnighter may not know that in the sixties and early seventies, Herschel was quite active in the soul and R&B scene in the Boston area, having arrived there in 1963 to attend the Berklee School of Music after graduating from high school in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
Sep 22, 2023 · By the time he entered high school, Dwellingham had developed ferocious chops and in 1959, at age 15, he started his professional career behind the kit for the very band that inspired him to become a drummer just a few years before, The Rhythm Aces, staying with them for the next four years.
Groove and funk drummer from Bogalusa, LA talks about getting his start in music and playing with Weather Report.
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It all started right here, with the self-titled debut album and powerful drumming of Alphonse Mouzon. Born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, Mouzon moved to New York to study drama at New York City College and medicine at Manhattan Medical School after graduating high school. Following a spate of drum lessons with Billy Taylor’s drummer, Bobby...
Alex Acuña, Leon “Ndugu” Chancler, Skip Hadden, Jaco Pastorius, Chester Thompson, Narada Michael Walden, Ishmael Wilburn Here’s where things got reallyinteresting. Can’t possibly bio all of these folks, as there are even more drummers that played with the group that didn’t even make it to record. “You had Darryl Brown playing in the band for a whil...
If you’re going to have a personal recommendation, who better to get it from than Miles Davis? That’s exactly what happened for Omar Hakim (check out the sidebar). The man who brought us that killer 6/8 intro groove to David Bowie’s “Modern Love,” and elegantly played all over Sting’s Dream Of The Blue Turtlesserved as Weather Report’s stickman unt...
Herschel Dwellingham. Soundtrack: Don't Look Up. From the moment of his first public performance for members of the Bethlehem Baptist Church of Bogalusa (Louisiana), it was destiny for a five-year-old. He had accompanied his mother performing on the church organ.
Herschel Dwellingham. Soundtrack: Don't Look Up. From the moment of his first public performance for members of the Bethlehem Baptist Church of Bogalusa (Louisiana), it was destiny for a five-year-old.
