Frank Derrick

Virtuoso drummer, composer, and educator Frank Derrick’s many credits include a stint on The David Letterman Show; ten years touring internationally with Cab Calloway; theatrical work on The Wiz, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Sophisticated Ladies and others; and performances with such legends as Eubie Blake, The Platters, Eartha Kitt, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Woody Herman Orchestra, Ken Peplowski, The Louis Armstrong Legacy Band and Ann Hampton Callaway. Derrick has also conducted on the concert stage for John Pizzarelli and Lanie Kazan. Currently he is featured regularly with the Bob Hoose Orchestra, and is the drummer and assistant conductor for the Palm Beach Pops. Familiar to symphony audiences around the world, Derrick has appeared with the Royal Philharmonic, the New York Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, and the Buffalo Philharmonic. His precision and driving rhythmic styling have been featured on the cast album of Bubbling Brown Sugar, Veronica Martell’s Big City Swing, RejoicEnsemble!’s Strong & Graceful Oaks, The Cab Calloway Show Live in Freiburg Germany, and The Bob Hoose Orchestra’s Something Old, Something New, to name a few. His “Straight Ahead” composition garnered the ASCAP Special Award. As an educator, Derrick served as Chairman of Percussion at Henry Street Settlement in New York, presents master classes, is the respect-

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