Pete La Roca
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title:
Pete La Roca
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Pete "La Roca" Sims was an American jazz drummer and attorney. Born and raised in Harlem by a pianist mother and a stepfather who played trumpet, he was introduced to jazz by his uncle Kenneth Bright, a major shareholder in Circle Records and the manager of rehearsal spaces above the Lafayette Theater. Sims studied percussion at the High School of Music and Art and at the City College of New York, where he played tympani in the CCNY Orchestra. He adopted the name La Roca early in his musical car
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American drummer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_La_Roca
date created:
2004-05-18T11:43:34Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T21:49:57Z
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