Herlin Riley

Herlin Riley is a jazz drummer and bandleader born in New Orleans in 1957, known as a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by Wynton Marsalis. He spent three years in Ahmad Jamal's band and helped develop the drum parts for Marsalis's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Blood on the Fields". His albums as a leader include "Watch What You're Doing" (2000) and "Perpetual Optimism" (2019).