Ben Thigpen

Drummer Ben Thigpen is the father of a quite well-known bebop and modern jazz drummer, Ed Thigpen. The former's big sister Eva Thigpen can take much responsibility for all this rhythmic skill being passed along: she started her little brother out on piano and then looked the other way when he switched to drums. By the early '20s Ben Thigpen was gigging professionally in South Bend, IN, in a group ...more