Nick Stabulas

Nicholas Stabulas (December 18, 1929 in New York – February 6, 1973 near Great Neck, New York) was an American jazz drummer.

Stabulas worked early in his career in commercial music, then joined Phil Woods from 1954 to 1957. He did extensive work as a sideman in the 1950s, with Jon Eardley (1955–56), Jimmy Raney (1955–57), Eddie Costa (1956), Friedrich Gulda (1956), George Wallington (1956–57), Al Cohn (1956–57, 1960), Zoot Sims (1957), Gil Evans (1957), Mose Allison (1957–58), Carmen McRae (1958), and Don Elliott (1958). In the 1960s he worked with Chet Baker, Kenny Drew, Bill Evans, and Lennie Tristano. He was active into the 1970s and was killed in a car crash in 1973.

Discography

With Mose Allison

• Local Color (Prestige, 1957)
• Young Man Mose (Prestige, 1958)

With Al Cohn

• The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer (Coral, 1956) with Bob Brookmeyer
• Al and Zoot (Coral, 1957) with Zoot Sims

With Eddie Costa

• Eddie Costa/Vinnie Burke Trio (Josie, 1956)

With Carmen McRae

• Birds of a Feather (Decca, 1958)

With Phil Woods

• Woodlore (Prestige, 1955)
• Sugan (Status, 1957) - with Red Garland

References

• "Nick Stabulas". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

Further reading

• Leonard Feather, The Encyclopedia of Jazz.