Spider Webb (jazz drummer)

Spider Webb
Birth nameKenneth Ronald Rice
Born (1944-06-15) June 15, 1944 (age 80)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
GenresJazz
OccupationSession musician
InstrumentDrums
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Spider Webb (born Kenneth Ronald Rice; June 15, 1944) is an American jazz drummer and session musician.

Biography

Spider Webb, aka Kenneth Rice, began playing drums at an early age in his home town of Detroit. Before leaving the motor city, he recorded with United Artists and Holland-Dozier-Holland.[1] He moved to New York in 1967 where he quickly gained prominence as a studio drummer. Webb was hired on the spot by King Curtis and became the drummer for Harry Belafonte, from 1969 through 1972.[2] In 1972, he played in a band backing David Clayton-Thomas, with Smitty Smith, Chuck Rainey, and Danny Kortchmar.[3]

He has also recorded with Freddie Hubbard, Robert Palmer, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin, Grover Washington, Jr, Labelle, Herb Alpert and Hugh Masekela, among others.[4]

Webb was once married to Carol Kaye, with whom he founded the soul-jazz group Spiders Webb.[5]

Selected discography

As sideman

As leader

  • 1976: I Don’t Know What’s On Your Mind - Spiders Webb (Fantasy - F 9517)

Bibliography

  • Rice, Kenneth (2009). Spider Webb Untangled - The Life and Times of Legendary Drummer Kenneth Rice. Bank House Books. ISBN 978-1904408307.

References

  1. ^ Rice, Kenneth (2009). Spider Webb Untangled - The Life and Times of Legendary Drummer Kenneth Rice. Bank House Books. ISBN 978-1904408307.
  2. ^ Rudland, Dean (1976). I Don't Know What's On Your Mind (Media notes). Spiders Webb. London: Ace Records. CDBGPM 247.
  3. ^ Smith, William D. (2008). A Stroke of Luck. Rick Wilson. p. 54. ISBN 978-0615235653.
  4. ^ Rice, Kenneth (2009). Spider Webb Untangled - The Life and Times of Legendary Drummer Kenneth Rice. Bank House Books. ISBN 978-1904408307.
  5. ^ "Top Album Picks". Billboard: 70. 30 October 1976. ISSN 0006-2510.