Gary Chester

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Gary Chester

dr, 1924-1987 IT
Musician of Jazz
A.k.a. Cesario Gurciullo

Gary Chester (October 27, 1924 – August 17, 1987) (born Cesario Gurciullo in Siracusa, Italy) was a studio drummer. According to The Complete Idiot's Guide To Playing Drums, "When talking about the great studio drummers, Gary Chester deserves a place near the top of the list." His work appears on thousands of tracks, including hundreds of hit records from the '50s, '60s and '70s. He logged over 15,000 studio sessions over three decades.

Instruments

Drums
Percussion

Genres

Jazz
Rock
Pop
Electronic
Latin

Plays With

Ninapinta And His Bongos And Congas

The Kings Of Twist

Ted Auletta And His Orchestra

The Dixie All-Stars

The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

Ron Frangipane And His Orchestra

Stan Rubin Orchestra

The Tigertown Five

Scott Mills Orchestra

Karen Cruz

Band Members

Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah	Gary Chester	1964	Album
Rockin' Drummer	Cozy Cole and Gary Chester	1963	Single

External Links

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Discogs

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Acknowledgements

To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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