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Timothy Lee Drummond (20 April 1940 – 10 January 2015) was an American musician from Canton, Illinois. Drummond’s primary instrument was bass guitar and he toured and recorded with many notable artists, including Conway Twitty, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Crosby & Nash, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Ry Cooder, J. J. Cale, Mother Earth, Lonnie Mack, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Joe Cocker, Albert Collins, Joe Henry, Jewel, Essra Mohawk, and many others.

Drummond co-wrote songs with many of the artists he worked with, including: “Saved” (Bob Dylan), “Who’s Talking” (J.J. Cale), “Saddle Up The Palomino” (Neil Young), and “Down In Hollywood” (Ry Cooder). He is credited as the sole writer of “To Lay Down Beside You” on the 1971 album The Sounds of Simon, which went on to be covered by artists such as Esther Phillips, Dianne Davidson, Tracy Nelson, Terri Lane, and Rick Danko. He often played as part of the session rhythm duo Tim & Jim with drummer Jim Keltner.

Ernest Anthony Puente Jr. (April 20, 1923 – May 31, 2000), commonly known as Tito Puente, was an American musician, songwriter, bandleader, timbalero, and record producer. He composed dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz music. He was also known as “El Rey de los Timbales,” or “The King of the Timbales.”

Puente and his music have appeared in films including The Mambo Kings and Fernando Trueba‘s Calle 54. He guest-starred on television shows, including Sesame Street and The Simpsons‘s two-part episode “Who Shot Mr. Burns?“.

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazzvibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader. He worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.

Lionel Hampton was born in 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised by his mother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off-limits because of racial segregation.

Ara Gevorgyan (Armenian: Արա Գևորգյան, born April 19, 1960) is an Armenianmusician, composer and musical producer. In 2004 he was awarded the Honorary Artist of Armenia title by the President Robert Kocharyan.

Dorothy Snowden “Dar” Williams (born April 19, 1967) is an American pop folksinger-songwriter from Mount Kisco, New York. Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorkerhas described Williams as “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters.”

She is a frequent performer at folk festivals and has toured with such artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Ani DiFranco, the Nields, Shawn Colvin, Girlyman, Joan Baez, and Catie Curtis.

Alan Price (born 19 April 1942) is an English musician who first found prominence as the original keyboardist of the English rock band the Animals. He left the band in 1965 to form the Alan Price Set; his hit singles with and without the group include “Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear“, “The House That Jack Built“, “Rosetta” (with Georgie Fame) and “Jarrow Song”. Price is also known for work in film and television, taking occasional acting roles and composing the soundtrack of Lindsay Anderson‘s film O Lucky Man! (1973). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 as a member of the Animals.

George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective. In later years, he also worked with acts such as Talking Heads, Bill Laswell, and Jack Bruce. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. Worrell was described by journalist Jon Pareles as “the kind of sideman who is as influential as some bandleaders,” with his use of synthesizers particularly impactful on funk and hip hop.

Dick (Richard) Cully was born on April 19th, 1949 in Manhattan, New York to his parents, Richard born 1917 and Jeanette born 1921 in New York. In 1955 they moved to Lyndhurst, New Jersey where he began his musical career at the age of 16 studying with James Rago, Julliard School of Music graduate in percussion, timpanist with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra since the early 1970 and Professor of Percussion at the University of Louisville. While still in high school, he formed a very popular quartet, (The Charades) with three school friends. The group performed countless club dates and casuals in the New York/New Jersey area. In 1967, he attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, studying with drummer Alan Dawson and continued his studies with former Tonight Show drummer Ed Shaughnessy. His early career included performing a variety of musical styles: pop, rock, funk, disco, jazz and country with numerous groups. In 1978 he relocated to Boca Raton, Florida. In 1982, he formed the DICK CULLY BIG BAND, a 15 piece, high energy, exciting unit performing a wide variety of arrangements for all age groups. It features the most popular arrangements from the Libraries of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Harry James, Buddy Rich, Les Brown , Woody Herman and others as well as the compositions of contemporary artists. Since itâ??s inception, the DICK CULLY BIG BAND has received numerous rave reviews. Has appeared on WLRN-TV Miami, PBS station Channel 17 three times. Black Entertainment Television, Jazz Discovery, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and WPTV Channel 12, a local CBS affiliate in Palm Beach Florida. The band was also featured weekly on Adelphia Cable with its own 30 minute TV show titled, Strike Up the Band which was also the title of the bands very first album on Ocean Properties Records. It received air play locally in Florida on big band stations as well as the former New York AM radio station, WNEW, once considered to be the premier jazz and big band station in the country. In 1984, he became an artist/endorser for the world famous Slingerland Drum Company, Niles IL and was recognized as a à World Class Drummer by the Pro-Mark Corporation of Houston, Texas, the world’s largest manufacturer of drumsticks.

Friday April 18th 6pm Erev Shabbat service Temple Israel and the Seventh Day of Passover. Music with Alex Bonhoff, Jayson Rodovsky, Jeff Bailey, Pete Whitman and mick laBriola.