Internationally renowned jazz drummer Bob Rosengarden, the recipient of a Hamilton honorary degree in 1999 and a regular visitor to campus, died Feb. 27 in Sarasota, Fla. He was 82. Mr. Rosengarden performed each year on campus during Fallcoming with other jazz legends in an annual concert series established by long-time Hamilton trustee and jazz aficionado Milt Fillius '44. Rosengarden was one of over 250 jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics who have been interviewed by Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive at Hamilton, about the history and place of jazz in America. A video excerpt from that interview is available here.
