Sam Ulano
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Sam Ulano is an American jazz drummer
and teacher. He is often called by the nickname "Mr. Rhythm."
Ulano began playing drums at age 13 and opened his first drum studio four years later. He has written many instruction books for the drums and has appeared on several television programs, including The Tonight Show with Steve Allen
. He has recorded with Moondog
. He was also for one night in 1981 a member of the English post-punk band Public Image Ltd.
.
His son, Mark Ulano, is a Hollywood sound engineer and won an Academy Award in 1998 for Titanic
.
Jazz drumming
Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz-rock fusion and 1980s-era latin jazz...
and teacher. He is often called by the nickname "Mr. Rhythm."
Ulano began playing drums at age 13 and opened his first drum studio four years later. He has written many instruction books for the drums and has appeared on several television programs, including The Tonight Show with Steve Allen
Steve Allen
Steve Allen may refer to:*Steve Allen , American musician, comedian, and writer*Steve Allen , presenter on the London-based talk radio station LBC 97.3...
. He has recorded with Moondog
Moondog
Moondog, born Louis Thomas Hardin , was a blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. Moving to New York as a young man, Moondog made a deliberate decision to make his home on the streets there, where he spent approximately twenty of the thirty years he...
. He was also for one night in 1981 a member of the English post-punk band Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd are an English post-punk band formed by vocalist John Lydon , guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble, with frequent subsequent personnel changes. Lydon is the sole constant member of the band....
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His son, Mark Ulano, is a Hollywood sound engineer and won an Academy Award in 1998 for Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
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Books
- Ulano, Sam. I Love What I Do!: A Drummer's Philosophy of Life at Eighty. ISBN 1890995355.