Folks welcome to the JFS. My guest today is a first rate drummer who has enhanced countless studio and live musical sessions.

He has gigged with jazz vocalists, played in both acoustic and electric settings and is not just a whiz on the kit but has a profound understanding of percussive instruments as well.

He came up during a time when idioms were present but it was in conjunction with an adherence to developing his own unique sound.

Individual sound interwoven within bossa rhythms or Afro Cuban rhythms or electronica or straight ahead bop and beyond.

Still swinging in the big apple Bruce Ditmas welcome to the JFS.