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drums · 1905–1994

Tommy Benford

Drummer raised in Charleston's Jenkins Orphanage band: Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, then nine years in Europe, including the 1937 Paris date with Coleman Hawkins and Django Reinhardt.

Sessions
2
Records
3
First date
June 8, 1949
Latest
October 25, 1954

On the records

Dick Wellstood - Tommy Benford Duo – The Stride Piano Of Dick Wellstood (Riverside RLP 2506)RLP 2506 · 1955The Stride Piano Of Dick WellstoodDick Wellstood - Tommy Benford DuoSidney Bechet – The Master Of The Soprano Sax (Riverside RLP 2516)RLP 2516 · 1955The Master Of The Soprano SaxSidney BechetSidney Bechet, Albert Nicholas – Creole Reeds (Riverside RLP 12-216)RLP 12-216Creole ReedsSidney Bechet, Albert Nicholas

Every date, in order

1949

1954