Ed Shaughnessy

Edwin Thomas "Ed" Shaughnessy (January 29, 1929 – May 24, 2013) was a swing music and jazz drummer long associated with Doc Severinsen and a member of The Tonight Show Band on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''.

Biography

Shaughnessy was born in Jersey City, New Jersey area, working in the 1940s with George Shearing, Jack Teagarden, and Charlie Ventura. In the 1950s he worked in the Charlie Ventura, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey bands. In the 1960s he played for Count Basie prior to joining The Tonight Show Band. He was the drummer on '' Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith'' in 1962 which featured big band arrangements by Oliver Nelson, including the pop hit "Walk on the Wild Side" which peaked at #21 on the ''Billboard'' chart. Shaughnessy recorded extensively throughout his career and was known for his drum competitions with Buddy Rich.

Although best known as a big band drummer, Shaughnessy also performed small group work with Gene Ammons, Roy Eldridge, Billie Holiday, Mundell Lowe, Teo Macero, Charles Mingus, Shirley Scott, Jack Sheldon, Horace Silver, and many others. For several years Shaughnessy was a member of the house band at Birdland and other New York clubs. In the early 1970s he was doing similar work in Los Angeles and is credited with discovering Diane Schuur, whom he introduced at the 1976 Monterey Jazz Festival. Shaughnessy played in an early incarnation of the "Sesame Street" orchestra along with percussionist Danny Epstein, reed player Wally Kane, and, on occasion, guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli.

He was an endorser of Ludwig drums, Sabian cymbals and Pro-Mark drumsticks.

Shaughnessy was married to Ilene Woods, the original voice of Cinderella, who died in 2010. He died of a heart attack in Calabasas, California
* '' Trigger Happy!'' ( Riverside, 1956)
With Gene Ammons
* '' The Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons'' (Moodsville, 1962)
With Count Basie
* ''Basie Swingin' Voices Singin''' (ABC-Paramount, 1966) with the Alan Copeland Singers
* '' Broadway Basie's...Way'' (Command, 1966)
* '' Hollywood...Basie's Way'' (Command, 1967)
* ''Basie's Beat'' ( Verve, 1967)
* '' Half a Sixpence'' ( Dot, 1967)
With Stephen Bishop
* '' Bish'' (ABC, 1978)
With Bob Brookmeyer
* '' The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer'' ( Prestige, 1954)
With Gary Burton
* ''The Groovy Sound of Music'' ( RCA, 1963)
With Teddy Charles
* ''New Directions'' (Prestige, 1953)
* '' Collaboration West'' (Prestige, 1953)
* '' Word from Bird'' (Atlantic, 1957)
* '' Jazz In The Garden At The Museum Of Modern Art'' ( Warwick Records, 1960)
With Jimmy Forrest
* '' Soul Street'' ( New Jazz, 1962)
With Dizzy Gillespie
* '' Cornucopia'' ( Solid State, 1969)
With Jimmy Giuffre
* ''The Music Man'' (Atlantic, 1958)
With Honi Gordon
* '' Honi Gordon Sings'' (1962)
With Johnny Hodges
* '' Mess of Blues'' (Verve, 1964) with Wild Bill Davis
With Etta Jones
* '' From the Heart'' (Prestige, 1962)
* '' Lonely and Blue'' (Prestige, 1962)
With Quincy Jones
* '' Golden Boy'' (Mercury, 1964)
With Hubert Laws
* '' Crying Song'' ( CTI, 1969)
With Mundell Lowe
* '' The Mundell Lowe Quartet'' (Riverside, 1955)
* ''Guitar Moods