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Pete La Roca's decision to leave music in 1968 and become an attorney (under his original name of Pete Sims) cut short a productive career. He started his career playing timbales in Latin bands, changing his name to Pete La Roca at the time. He played drums with <a href="spotify:artist:1VEzN9lxvG6KPR3QQGsebR">Sonny Rollins</a> (1957-1959) and had associations with <a href="spotify:artist:1lB7KbOr9xdPK1CuasxmeA">Jackie McLean</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1JrZuQYlOzhNj1nvlB0Yys">Slide Hampton</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2hGh5VOeeqimQFxqXvfCUf">the John Coltrane Quartet</a> (where he was the original drummer in 1960), and <a href="spotify:artist:7Ga404k4zEweLxPtX0Ghma">Marian McPartland</a>. La Roca led his own group (1961-1962), was the house drummer at the Jazz Workshop in Boston (1963-1964), and worked with <a href="spotify:artist:4L9xEztn5PKQIO5WnI5W3u">Art Farmer</a> (1964-1965), <a href="spotify:artist:0fTHKjepK5HWOrb2rkS5Em">Freddie Hubbard</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0sN4enVJwylJKEXZlSbgsm">Mose Allison</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0GC1oqEWpiAjfE7jm5LQO5">Charles Lloyd</a> (1966), <a href="spotify:artist:4HCwj3Nt6DTTmJCpHuQOeM">Paul Bley</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:6KEBRNgSvb95hjK9Nh0tzt">Steve Kuhn</a>, among others. He led two impressive albums: the classic Blue Note record Basra with <a href="spotify:artist:3BG0nwVh3Gc7cuT4XdsLtt">Joe Henderson</a> and Bliss!, a Douglas session (reissued on Muse) featuring <a href="spotify:artist:5olDKSsFhhmwh8UCWwKtpq">Chick Corea</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:65A4foeosCkf3zaigZJuzF">John Gilmore</a>. La Roca started playing jazz again in 1979. He died in November 2012 at age 74 after battling lung cancer. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi
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