Percussionist

Shankar Bapu Apegaonkar

1911 – 2002

Jonah David

b. 1977

Michael Askill

b. 1952

Guem

1947 – 2021

Gary Wallis

b. 1964

Peter Michael Escovedo

b. 1961

Ananda Gopal Bandopadhyay

1943 – 2021

Tatsuo Sasaki

b. 1944

Jan Szlagowski

b. 1984

Jody Linscott

b. 1971

Max Berrú Carrión

1942 – 2018

Steve Price

Leon Mobley

b. 1961

Badal Roy

1945 – 2022

Vijay Mistry

b. 1979

Armando Peraza

1924 – 2014

B. C. Manjunath

b. 1976

Keith Frazier

Menwar

b. 1955

Mongo Santamaría

1917 – 2003

Martin Grubinger

b. 1983

Brian Slawson

b. 1956

Ed Mann

1954 – 2024

Ghatam Udupa

b. 1980

Jon Mueller

b. 1970

Srirangam Kannan

1952 – 2024

Kalpathy Balakrishnan

Julius Wechter

1935 – 1999

Pedro Sorongo

1919 – 1993

Eddie "Bongo" Brown

1932 – 1984

Soungalo Coulibaly

1955 – 2004

Mitchell Peters

1935 – 2017

Tim Davis

1943 – 1988

Orlando Ríos

1947 – 2008

Dante Bucci

1980 – 2014

Alex MacDougall

Berta Pereira

b. 1958

Charlie Morgan

b. 1955

Bill Usher

Iris Lemare

1902 – 1997

Pancho Quinto

1933 – 2005

Marilyn Mazur

1955 – 2025

Paulinho da Costa

b. 1948

Amadito Valdés

b. 1946

Lionel Friedli

b. 1975

Panjal Unnikrishnan

b. 1944

Kanjira Ganesh Kumar

b. 1964

Preston Epps

1931 – 2019

Lewis Pragasam

1957 – 2023

Pete Lockett

b. 1962

Vinx De'Jon Parrette

b. 1957

Mireille Bauer

b. 1951

Ralph Irizarry

1954 – 2021

Josefa de Bastavales

1932 – 2024

Kalamandalam Unnikrishnan

b. 1958

James B. Campbell

Seckou Keita

b. 1978

Palghat Mani Iyer

1912 – 1981

Nêgah Santos

Kobla Ladzekpo

b. 2000

Domingo Ortiz

b. 1952

Sivamani

b. 1959

Abby the Spoon Lady

b. 1981

Jimmy Maelen

1940 – 1988

Jim Donovan

b. 1968

G. Harishankar

1958 – 2002

Drew Hester

b. 1969

Kenny Endo

b. 1953

Cheruthazham Kunhiraman Marar

b. 1962

Pascal Pons

b. 1968

José Mangual Jr.

b. 1948

Luís Jardim

1950 – 2025

Luis Conte

b. 1954

Scott Johnson

Kester Smith

1941 – 2024

Ryan Dusick

b. 1977

Alfred Ladzekpo

b. 2000

Mbaye Dieye Faye

b. 1960

Valayapatti A. R. Subramaniam

Michael Jochum

Guillaume Coutu Dumont

Ginger Johnson

1916 – 1972

Alfred "Uganda" Roberts

1943 – 2020

Paul Price

1921 – 1986

Tracy Thornton

Everett Bradley

b. 1963

Umayalpuram K. Narayanaswamy

1929 – 1997

Aiyun Huang

Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam

b. 1956

Jon Moss

b. 1957

Banamali Maharana

1941 – 2018

Ratul Shankar

b. 1979

Derrick Tabb

b. 1975

Stoyan Yankulov

b. 1966

Valerio Meletti

Jeff Rich

b. 1953

Davey Brozowski

b. 1982

Michael Pfaff

b. 1980

Jamie Muir

1942 – 2025

Bill Bachman