ABOUT SHELLY MANNE
Jazz drummer who has worked with artists including Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges .
He was inspired to play the drums at an early age, as his father and uncles were drummers.
He worked as a bandleader on more than forty albums and was a sideman on albums for artists like Art Pepper .
He was married to Florence Butterfield for more than forty years.
He has worked with John Coltrane .
