Thrilling American jazz drummer, pianist and composer who played with some of the genre’s greatest stars Thrilling American jazz drummer, pianist and composer who played with some of the genre’s greatest stars In improvisational music, ungoverned by conductors or sacrosanct scores, and given to abrupt shifts of direction on the whims of performers, drummers are often the intuitive navigators. One of the most creative and viscerally thrilling exponents of that pivotal jazz art was Jack