Larry Ritchie

Larry Ritchie was a jazz drummer and record/CD producer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York as Lawrence Ritchie to Walter Ritchie, an electrician, and Pearl Ritchie, a domestic worker, both of whom were migrants from rural Virginia.

Contents

• A Tribute to Larry Ritchie
• Discography
• References

He has recorded with John Coltrane, Ray Draper, and Jackie McLean. Examples of his jazz work are provided by McLean's Strange Blues (1957) and Freddie Redd's Music from The Connection (1960).

Ritchie was also a talented painter and by the mid-1960s, he devoted more of his time to painting than to music.