Sherman Ferguson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Sherman Ferguson (October 31, 1944, Philadelphia – January 22, 2006) was an American jazz drummer.Ferguson first played professionally in the middle of the 1960s, working with Charles Earland and Pat Martino that decade. Concomitantly he worked as a child tutor for the Model Cities program in Philadelphia. He was a founding member of Catalyst, a jazz fusion ensemble, in 1970, remaining with them through 1976. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he became a prolific session musician, playing on albums by Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, and Benny Carter among many others. He formed a trio with John Heard and Tom Ranier, and taught jazz theory at UCLA, UC-Irvine, and Jackson State University. He released a full-length, Welcome to My Vision, on his own label in 2002. In 2006, Ferguson died as a result of diabetes.
In addition to his session work he taught at UC Irvine, the California Institute of the Arts, the Los Angeles Music Academy and was a member of the jazz studies faculty at UCLA.
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Jazz drummer.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pirates of Silicon Valley
1999
TV Movie
Jazz Band Player #2
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1988
TV Series
Sherman
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987
TV Series
Himself
Known for movies
Pirates of Silicon Valley 1999 as Jazz Band Player #2
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd 1987-1988 as Himself / Sherman
$600,000
