Bill Dowdy
Biography
Bill Dowdy (August 15, 1932 – May 12, 2017) was an American jazz musician and teacher. He was the drummer with the jazz trio, The Three Sounds. The Three Sounds recorded over ten jazz albums from the 1950s through the early 1970s and played with Lester Young, Lou Donaldson, Nat Adderley, Johnny Griffin, Anita O'Day and Sonny Stitt among others.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
427 releases · 54 albums · active 1958–2024
- Performance · 458
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Sigma Sound Studios, New York · Reeves Sound Studios
Frequent collaborators
- The Three Sounds
- Various
- Anita O'Day
- The 3 Sounds
- Stanley Turrentine
- Nat Adderley
- Anita O'Day And Her Rhythm Section
- Lou Donaldson