Buddy Deppenschmidt is an American jazz drummer. He recorded with Stan Getz

Stan Getz

Stanley Getz was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott...

, Charlie Byrd

Charlie Byrd

Charlie Lee Byrd was a famous and versatile American guitarist born in Suffolk, Virginia. His earliest and strongest musical influence was Django Reinhardt, the famous gypsy guitarist. Byrd became the American guitarist who best understood and played Brazilian music, especially the Bossa Nova genre...

 and Bill Reichenbach

William Frank Reichenbach Sr.

Bill Reichenbach Sr., was an American jazz drummer and percussionist, who co-developed the jazz-samba drumming style.- Life and career :...

. Their album Jazz Samba

Jazz Samba

Jazz Samba is a bossa nova LP by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, released on the Verve label on April 20, 1962.Jazz Samba was the first major bossa-nova album on the American jazz scene. It was the real start of the bossa-nova excitement in America, which peaked in the mid-1960s...

, recorded live on February 13, 1962, started a craze in North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

 for Latin American music

Latin American music

Latin American music, found within Central and South America, is a series of musical styles and genres that mixes influences from Spanish, African and indigenous sources, that has recently become very famous in the US.-Argentina:...

. It is the only jazz album to have reached the top place in the Billboard chart.

External links

• http://www.adlermusic.com/C119771372/E1963307061/Media/Jazz%20Samba%20piece.pdf Drummer Buddy Deppenschmidt is

speaking out about his role in the recording of Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd’s 1962 classic Jazz Samba