Etienne Stephen Jean Gustave "Stuff" Combe (March 12, 1924 in

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– December 27, 1986 in

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) was a Swiss jazz drummer. Combe initially pursued schooling in art during World War II, but ultimately decided on a career in music instead. He played in Switzerland in the 1940s with Philippe Brun,

Eddie Brunner Eduard "Eddie" Brunner (July 19, 1912, Zurich - July 18, 1960, Zurich) was a Swiss jazz reedist and bandleader. Brunner learned to play clarinet, piano, and tenor and alto saxophone, and began playing professionally in the early 1930s with Rene D ...

, Ernst Hollerhagen, and

Hazy Osterwald Rolf Osterwald, better known as Hazy Osterwald (February 18, 1922 in Bern – February 26, 2012 in Lucerne) was a Swiss jazz bandleader, trumpeter, and vibraphonist. Osterwald began his career as a pianist. He arranged for Fred Böhler in the ...

. In the 1950s he traveled widely throughout Europe and played frequently with visiting American musicians; he also recorded with Paul Kuhn and Fats Sadi near the end of the decade. In 1957 he began playing with Kurt Edelhagen, an association that would continue into the mid-1960s. He formed his own large ensemble in Geneva in 1966, and the following year worked with the Radio Suisse Romande jazz band. He was Lucky Thompson's drummer during Thompson's 1969 Swiss tour. In the 1970s he worked with

Francy Boland François Boland (6 November 1929 – 12 August 2005) was a classically trained Belgian jazz composer and pianist. He first gained notice in 1949 and worked with Belgian jazz greats like Bobby Jaspar, and in 1955 he joined Chet Baker's quintet. M ...

and Benny Bailey, and played in the western United States with Groupe Instrumental Romand. He also wrote a treatise on percussion improvisation.

References

*"Stuff Combe". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, 2001, ed.

Barry Kernfeld Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published extensively about the history of jazz and the biographies of its musicians. Education In 1968, Kernfeld enrolled at U ...

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