Anthony “Tony Oulaboula” Bazley

(1934–2015)

"I consider myself a bebop drummer,” Tony “Oulaboula” Bazley once accurately declared. “In Europe they call me the gumbo drummer—like gumbo, it’s a concoction.”

Bazley’s career took him from his hometown of New Orleans to Los Angeles, to Europe, Canada and the Caribbean. A fine drummer, a talented folk artist with an in...