CATLETT, SIDNEY (BIGSID
). Jazz drummer ( in Evansville, Indiana; in Chicago, Illinois). As a child he played piano, but changed to drums, which he played in a school band. He received his education in an elementary school of Evansville, Indiana, and at Tilden High School in Chicago, Illinois, where he studied drums with Joe Russek. He began playing professionally about 1928 with Darnell Howard. Thereafter he played with various groups, including
Sammy Stewart
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