Norman Connors
USA
Born: 01 January 1948
Styles: Smooth Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, R&B/Soul, Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz/Groove, Crossover Jazz, Quiet Storm, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Soul
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Like Roy Ayers, George Benson, and Patrice Rushen, Norman Connors is best known for his major R&B hits but started out as a jazz improviser. The drummer/composer was born and raised in Philadelphia, where he lived in the same neighborhood as Bill Cosby and became interested in jazz when he was only a child. As a kid in elementary school, Connors was exposed to jazz extensively thanks to such schoolmates as drummer Lex Humphries and the younger brother of bassist and Jazz Messenger-to-be Spanky De Brest. Connors was in junior high when he began ...
See also
- Michael Henderson (1)
- Al Johnson (0)
Similar artists
- Lenny White (10)
- Alphonse Mouzon (6)
Influenced by
- Miles Davis (279)
- John Coltrane (109)
- Herbie Hancock (61)
- Charlie Parker (58)
- Art Blakey (15)
- Pharoah Sanders (14)
- Max Roach (11)
- Elvin Jones (9)
- Tony Williams (5)
Followers
- Marion Meadows (24)
- Gary Bartz (5)
- Bobby Lyle (3)
- Phyllis Hyman (2)
- Million Dollar Orchestra (0)
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