Joe Morello

About

Jazz drummer who played with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. With the band, he performed such famous and rhythmically innovative numbers as "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and "Take Five."

Before Fame

He started playing music when he was six years old; his first instrument was the violin. He was later a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Trivia

He taught Max Weinberg drumming techniques.

Family Life

He resided in New Jersey until his death at the age of eighty-two.

Associated With

He recorded with Paul Desmond.