Nick Stabulas

Nicholas Stabulas (December 18, 1929, New York - February 6, 1973, near Great Neck, New York) was an American jazz drummer.

Stabulas worked early in his career in commercial music, then joined Phil Woods from 1954 to 1957. He did extensive work as a sideman in the 1950s, with Jon Eardley (1955–56), Jimmy Raney (1955–57), Eddie Costa (1956), Friedrich Gulda (1956), George Wallington (1956–57), Al Cohn (1956–57, 1960), Zoot Sims (1957), Gil Evans (1957), Mose Allison (1957–58), Carmen McRae (1958), and Don Elliott (1958). In the 1960s he worked with Chet Baker, Kenny Drew, Bill Evans, and Lennie Tristano. He was active into the 1970s and was killed in a car crash in 1973.

References

• "Nick Stabulas". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

Further reading

• Leonard Feather, The Encyclopedia of Jazz.

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Name	Stabulas, Nick
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Date of birth	December 18, 1929
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Date of death	February 6, 1973
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