The Frank Derrick Total Experience - You Betcha!

Frank Derrick  

Drummer. His many theatrical credits include Bubbling Brown Sugar, The Wiz, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Sophisticated Ladies, Big River, and Catskills. He has performed with numerous legends and artists including Redd Foxx, Stephanie Mills, Della Reese, Freda Payne, Eubie Blake, The Platters, Eartha Kitt, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Woody Herman Ochestra, Dorothy Donegan, The Pointer Sisters, Ken Peplowski, Dakota Staton, Steve Allen, The Louis Armstrong Legacy Band, Donna Summer, Keely Smith, Maureen McGovern, Ann Hampton Callaway, Benny Carter, and has conducted on the concert stage for John Pizzarelli and Lanie Kazan. He toured worldwide with Cab Calloway for ten years and was drummer for “The David Letterman Show” on NBC.  Read more

1 Socialite Suburbanite 2 You Betcha! 3 Inspiration 4 Good Evenin' Rev 5 Jazz Scene 6 No Jive 7 Poor Man's Blues 8 Variations In Jazz Bass – Jeff Simon Guitar – Leo Pochinskas Jr. Keyboards – Bob Jones Leader, Drums, Producer – Frank Derrick III Saxophone – Bill Payne, Charles H. Washington Jr., Don Sturner, Frank Derrick Jr., Kenneth James Trombone – Bill Petties, Edwin Williams (3), Jim Sullivan Trumpet – Buddy Brooks, Jimmy Doss, Sanden Joren, Tim Galloway

Recorded live at Fiddlers, Chicago, 1974