Bandleader, educator, and much in-demand sideman, Billy Drummond cut his teeth apprenticing with jazz greats including Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, and Bobby Hutcherson, to become one of today’s most versatile drummers – equally at home in the avant garde as well as hard-swinging bop realms. His cult-followed album Dubai (with Chris Potter, Walt Weiskopf and Peter Washington), which was picked as the Number 1 Jazz Album of the Year by the New York Times when it was released, was recently dubbed one of the “50 Crucial Jazz Drumming Recordings” of the past 100 years by Modern Drummer magazine.