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Chuck Flores
Orange, United States • 1935-01-05 – 2016-11-24
Chuck Flores is credited on 489 releases across 87 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
489
Pressings credited
87
Albums
8
Decades active
20
In collections
Biography
Charles Walter "Chuck" Flores (January 5, 1935 – November 24, 2016) was an American jazz drummer. One of the relatively small number of musicians associated with West Coast jazz who were actually from the West Coast, Flores was born in Orange, California, and grew up in Santa Ana. He is best known for the work he did with saxophonist Bud Shank in the 1950s, and for his two-year stint with Woody Herman, from 1954 to 1955, but also performed and recorded with such musicians as Carmen McRae, Art Pepper, Maynard Ferguson, Al Cohn, and Shelly Manne, who had been his drum teacher. Manne and others considered Flores an underrated drummer. In later years, Flores became a highly sought after and renowned educator whose students included Danny Seraphine, Chad Wackerman, John Wackerman, Brooks Wackerman, Ray Mehlbaum, Pete Parada, Jamie Wollam, Jose Ruiz, and Zack Stewart. Flores was a longtime faculty member at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles.
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Credited work
489 releases · 87 albums · active 1954–2026
- Performance · 572
- Other credits · 6
Studios: Capitol Studios · Forum Theatre, Los Angeles · Donte's · Sage & Sand Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Bud Shank
- The Woody Herman Band
- Bud Shank Quartet
- Art Pepper
- Laurindo Almeida
- Woody Herman And His Orchestra
- The Art Pepper Quartet
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