Nigel Hall, Ladies & Gentlemen."Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun.Pete Escovedo & Sheila Escovedo, Solo Two (Fantasy, 1977).Lamont Dozier, Peddlin' Music On the Side (Warner Bros., 1977).Djavan, Bird of Paradise (Columbia, 1988).Michael Des Barres, Somebody Up There Likes Me (Gold Mountain, 1986).Norman Connors, Saturday Night Special (Buddah, 1975).Norman Connors, Love from the Sun (Buddah, 1973).Harry Connick Jr., Smokey Mary (Columbia, 2013).Harry Connick Jr., Every Man Should Know (Columbia, 2013).Jon Cleary, Moonburn (Pointblank, 1999).Jim Clayton, Songs My Daughter Knows (Clay-Tone, 2013).Cachao, Master Sessions Volume I (Epic, 1994).Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dee Dee's Feathers (Okeh, 2015).
Brass Fever, Time Is Running Out ( Impulse!, 1976). Carmen Bradford, With Respect (Evidence, 1995). George Benson, Love Remembers (Warner Bros., 1993). John Beasley, A Change of Heart (Windham Hill, 1993). John Beasley, Cauldron (Windham Hill, 1992). Gary Bartz, Love Affair (Capitol, 1978). Gary Bartz, Music Is My Sanctuary (Capitol, 1977). Gato Barbieri, Passion and Fire (A&M, 1984). Rooms in My Fatha's House (PANGAEA, 1991). Evolution Revolution (Basin Street, 2003). Return of the Headhunters (Verve Forecast, 1998). Omaha Civic Auditorium, 17th November 1975 (Hi Hat, 2015). Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (Columbia, 1979). Don't Let the System Get You (Milestone, 1978). Los Hombres Calientes (Basin Street, 1998). Studies in Bata: Sacred Drum of the Yoruba, Havana to Matanzas (Bilsum, 2002). The Essence of Kwanzaa (Monkey Hill, 1997). Call it What You Want ( MCA, 1981) U.S. His former wife is Yvette Bostic-Summers, who often sings on Los Hombres' albums. He also played with Herbie Hancock during The Headhunters years, and is mentioned in passing by the liner notes of The Headhunters' 2003 release Evolution Revolution as contributing to that recording. However, Summers has a much longer musical career, often working behind the scenes on film scores for various movies such as The Color Purple and the television miniseries Roots with Quincy Jones. In the 1970s, he founded Bill Summers & Summers Heat together with Bo Freeman, Calvin Tillery, Carla Vaughn, Claytoven Richardson, Earl Freeman, Freddie Washington, George Spencer, Hadley Caliman, James Levi, Jeff Lewis, Larry Batiste, Leo Miller, Lori Ham, Michael Sasaki, Munyungo Jackson, Paul Van Wageningen, Ray Obiedo, Rodney Franklin, Scott Roberts and Tom Poole.ĭuring the 1990s, Summers played with Los Hombres Calientes along with co-leader of the group, trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and Jason Marsalis. 
Bill Summers (born June 27, 1948) is an American, New Orleans based Afro-Cuban jazz/ Latin jazz percussionist, a multi-instrumentalist who plays primarily on conga drums.
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