Definition of percussionist
:one skilled in the playing of percussion instruments
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The 39-year-old was a percussionist who traveled with his mother's band and was also credited on albums for his work.
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His other talents are educator and, of course, percussionist.
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Interactive Sound Experiences Cross-cultural percussionist Steve Bloom reveals how the original master masons of the National Building Museum created musical spaces that seem to be beautiful only to the eye.
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That's because the percussionist isn't a human, but a bird: the palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) of Australia and New Guinea.
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Blackwell, a master percussionist who performed with Prince for 15 years, was known for his unique style of drumming.
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At one point percussionist Timothy Nishimoto stepped to the microphone and sang Spanish serenade.
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Their spare rendering seemed invested with even greater poignancy due to Lumineers frontman Wesley Schultz’s passionate, Dylanesque vocal and percussionist/keyboardist Jeremiah Fraites’ own recent two-year commitment to sobriety.
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Angel Foss, Beck Center's associate director of creative arts therapies, kept the budding percussionists on the same beat.
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First Known Use of percussionist
1938
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