Performance
Bill Dowdy
Osceola, United States
Bill Dowdy is credited on 278 releases across 54 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
278
Pressings credited
54
Albums
8
Decades active
32
In collections
Biography
Bill Dowdy (August 15, 1932 – May 12, 2017) was an American jazz musician and teacher. He was the drummer with the jazz trio, The Three Sounds. The Three Sounds recorded over ten jazz albums from the 1950s through the early 1970s and played with Lester Young, Lou Donaldson, Nat Adderley, Johnny Griffin, Anita O'Day and Sonny Stitt among others.
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Credited work
278 releases · 54 albums · active 1958–2024
- Performance · 303
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Sigma Sound Studios, New York · The Living Room, Cincinnati
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- The Three Sounds
- Various
- Anita O'Day
- The 3 Sounds
- Stanley Turrentine
- Nat Adderley
- Lou Donaldson
- Anita O'Day And Her Rhythm Section
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