Alan Dawson was a respected jazz drummer and widely influential percussion teacher based in Boston. He was born in Marietta, Pennsylvania and raised in Roxbury, MA. Serving in the Army for Korean War ...
...under the leadership of the volcanic, blues-saturated tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin for Prestige is perhaps the zenith of Dawson's percussive artistry. One of the great jazz drummers of the mid-to ...