Pete La Roca

American jazz drummer. He performed with Sonny Rollins (1957-59), Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, John Coltrane, Marian McPartland, led his own group (1961-62), Art Farmer (1964-65), Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd (1966), Paul Bley, and Steve Kuhn among others. As a leader he recorded three albums "Basra" (1965), "Turkish Women at the Bath" (1967) and "SwingTime" (1997).