Danny Barcelona

Danny Barcelona (July 23, 1929 – April 1, 2007) was an American

At the age of 18 and in his final year in high school, Barcelona was already playing music with trombonist, singer, and bandleader Trummy Young. Barcelona was a self-taught percussionist. Young and Barcelona met in the mid-1940s. Danny Barcelona was introduced to Louis Armstrong by Young in 1956 and became Armstrong's drummer for 15 years. A native Hawaiian, Barcelona had joined Young's Hawaii All-Stars in the early 1950s, later assuming leadership of the band – a sextet known as the Hawaiian Dixieland All-Stars – when Young left to join Louis Armstrong's combo in 1952. Barcelona toured around the Hawaiian Islands, Japan and the rest of the Far East. In the fall of 1957, Barcelona moved to New York City. Barcelona, again through Trummy Young's recommendation, formally joined Armstrong's All-Stars band in February 1958 to replace retiring drummer Barrett Deems. Barcelona appears on more than 130 of Armstrong's recordings. Barcelona was only 27 years old when he was introduced by Young to Armstrong.^{[citation needed]}

Barcelona's recording career with Armstrong included the jazz music hits "

• Gabe Baltazar
• Overseas Filipino

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External links

• Performance video clip of Danny being introduced by Louis
• Danny doing a drum solo with Louis in Germany