How many equally skilled "second-string" drummers are hidden behind the iconic figures of jazz drumming (Max Roach, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones...)? In conversation with drummer Mourad Benhammou about his career as a musician, Sébastien Bertho set out to highlight a handful of them: Walter Perkins, Louis Hayes, Grassella Oliphant.
Mourad Benhammou (born 1969 in Paris) is a French jazz drummer and composer.