RALPH PETERSON

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Ralph Peterson Jr. (May 20, 1962 – March 1, 2021) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

Four of Peterson's uncles and his grandfather were drummers. Peterson himself began on percussion at age three. He was raised in Pleasantville, where he played trumpet at Pleasantville High School and worked locally in funk groups. He applied to Livingston College and Rutgers to study drums, but he failed the percussion entrance exam and enrolled as a trumpeter instead, graduating in 1984.

In 1983, he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers as the group's second drummer for several years. He worked with Terence Blanchard and Donald Harrison in 1984, and with Walter Davis (1985, 1989), Tom Harrell (1985), Out of the Blue (1985–1988), Branford Marsalis (1986), David Murray, Craig Harris (1987), James Spaulding (1988), Roy Hargrove (1989), Jon Faddis (1989), Dewey Redman, Mark Helias (1989), and Wynton Marsalis (with the Count Basie ghost band).

During the 1990s,
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RALPH PETERSON Ralph Peterson Quintet : V album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ralph Peterson Quintet : V
Hard Bop 1989
RALPH PETERSON Ralph Peterson Trio featuring Geri Allen : Triangular album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ralph Peterson Trio featuring Geri Allen : Triangular
Hard Bop 1989
RALPH PETERSON Volition album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Volition
Hard Bop 1990
RALPH PETERSON Ralph Peterson Presents the Fo'tet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ralph Peterson Presents the Fo'tet
Hard Bop 1991
RALPH PETERSON Ralph Peterson Fo'tet: Ornettology album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ralph Peterson Fo'tet: Ornettology
Hard Bop 1991
RALPH PETERSON Art album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Art
Hard Bop 1992
RALPH PETERSON The Reclamation Project album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Reclamation Project
Hard Bop 1995
RALPH PETERSON The Fo'tet Plays Monk album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Fo'tet Plays Monk
Hard Bop 1997
RALPH PETERSON Back To Stay album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Back To Stay
Hard Bop 1999
RALPH PETERSON Ralph Peterson, David Kikoski, Gerald Cannon : Triangular 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ralph Peterson, David Kikoski, Gerald Cannon : Triangular 2
Hard Bop 2000
RALPH PETERSON The Art of War album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Art of War
Hard Bop 2001
RALPH PETERSON Subliminal Seduction album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Subliminal Seduction
Hard Bop 2002
RALPH PETERSON Tests of Time album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tests of Time
Hard Bop 2003
RALPH PETERSON The Fo'tet Augmented album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Fo'tet Augmented
Hard Bop 2004
RALPH PETERSON Outer Reaches album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Outer Reaches
Hard Bop 2010
RALPH PETERSON The Duality Perspective album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
The Duality Perspective
Hard Bop 2012
RALPH PETERSON Ralph Peterson's Aggregate Prime : Dream Deferred album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ralph Peterson's Aggregate Prime : Dream Deferred
21st Century Modern 2016
RALPH PETERSON Ralph Peterson's GenNext BigBand : Listen Up! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ralph Peterson's GenNext BigBand : Listen Up!
Big Band 2019
RALPH PETERSON Ralph Peterson & the Messenger Legacy : Onward & Upward album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ralph Peterson & the Messenger Legacy : Onward & Upward
Hard Bop 2020
RALPH PETERSON Raise Up Off Me album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Raise Up Off Me
Post Bop 2021

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RALPH PETERSON ALIVE at Firehouse12 Vol. 1 : The Unity Project album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
ALIVE at Firehouse12 Vol. 1 : The Unity Project
Hard Bop 2013
RALPH PETERSON Alive At Firehouse, Vol. 2: Fo' N Mo' album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Alive At Firehouse, Vol. 2: Fo' N Mo'
Hard Bop 2014
RALPH PETERSON Triangular lll album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Triangular lll
Post Bop 2016
RALPH PETERSON Ralph Peterson's GenNext BigBand : I Remember Bu album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ralph Peterson's GenNext BigBand : I Remember Bu
Big Band 2018
RALPH PETERSON Legacy Alive, Volume 6 at the Side Door album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Legacy Alive, Volume 6 at the Side Door
Hard Bop 2019

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