Vinyl records

Pete La Roca vinyl records

2 albums with 41 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Peter Sims. American jazz drummer. Born April 7, 1938 in New York City, New York. Died November 19, 2012 in New York City, New York. He performed with Sonny Rollins (1957-59), Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, John Coltrane, Marian McPartland, led his own group (1961-62), Art Farmer (1964-65), Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bley, and Steve Kuhn among others. As a leader he recorded three albums "Basra" (1965), "Turkish Women at the Bath" (1967) and "SwingTime" (1997). He adopted the name Pete La Roca early in his career when he played timbales in Latin bands. Sims left music in the late 1960s to study law and then practice as an attorney.