Joe Morello

Joe Morello

drummer

BIRTHDAY July 17, 1928
BIRTH SIGN Cancer
BIRTHPLACE Springfield, MA
AGE ? years old
#117,321 Most Popular

ABOUT JOE MORELLO

Jazz drummer who played with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. With the band, he performed such famous and rhythmically innovative numbers as "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and "Take Five."

He started playing music when he was six years old; his first instrument was the violin. He was later a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

He taught Max Weinberg drumming techniques.

He resided in New Jersey until his death at the age of eighty-two.

He recorded with Paul Desmond .