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Buzzy Drootin was born on 22 April, 1920, is an American jazz musician. Discover Buzzy Drootin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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1920

Benjamin "Buzzy" Drootin (April 22, 1920 – May 21, 2000) was an American jazz drummer.

Drootin was born near Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, United States, with his family when he was five.

His father played the clarinet, and two of his brothers and his nephew were musicians.

He began playing drums professionally as a teenager.

At age twenty, he toured with the Jess Stacy All-Stars, a band that includeded Lee Wiley.

1940

In 1940, he also toured with Ina Ray Hutton.

He then joined the band of Wingy Manone.

1947

From 1947 until 1951, he worked as the house drummer at Eddie Condon's night club in New York City.

He was a bandleader at El Morocco club in New York City, and a member of the house band with his brother Al at George Wein's Storyville club in Boston.

During these years he worked with Doc Cheatham, Vic Dickenson, Bobby Hackett, Ruby Braff, Claude Hopkins, Jimmy McPartland, Pee Wee Russell, and Arvell Shaw.

Drootin recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Bobby Hackett, Jack Teagarden, Eddie Condon, Ruby Braff, Anita O'Day, George Wein, the Newport All-Stars, Lee Konitz, Sidney Bechet, PeeWee Russell and The Dukes of Dixieland.

1968

In 1968–69, he toured and recorded with Wild Bill Davison's Jazz Giants and then formed Buzzy's Jazz Family, borrowing some of Davison's sidemen (Herb Hall, Benny Morton) and adding Herman Autrey on trumpet and his nephew, Sonny Drootin, on piano.

1973

In 1973, after touring Europe and America, he returned to his hometown of Boston, where he and his brother Al and nephew Sonny formed the Drootin Brothers Band.

They played at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Drootin played at the first Newport festival and at many festivals after that.

1980

He also played at the Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival in the 1980s.

Buzzy Drootin died from cancer at the age of 80, at the Actors Fund Retirement and Nursing Home in Englewood, New Jersey.

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