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00 conducting a drum clinic at Franks Drum Shop located on Chicago's loop at 2nd & Wabash. 'People were standing on display counters watching me play. I loved that place, they had a huge inventory of drums and you never knew who you were going to meet in there' says Osborne modestly. He was hailed as a 'Drum Wizard' and 'Drum Prodigy' by Chicago papers. Upon entering Chicago's Taft High School, Donny became a member of the school's symphonic band. 'The director was too square for a jazz orchestra' says Osborne as his eyes roll to the back of his head. Instead, Osborne scratched his jazz itch appearing with Buddy Rich at the Slingerland Drum Show in Miami. He also appeared with Steve Allen at The London House, a jazz club and restaurant located in Chicago. Donny started a love affair with the Pacific Northwest while conducting drum clinics at Vancouver Washington's Clark College, and University of Idaho at Moscow Idaho. He enrolled in the Mount Hood Community College Music Curriculum in 1971. 'That was a great band, and a once in a life time opportunity' Osborne reminisces, 'The Director, Larry McVey, and the members of the band were committed to performance excellence!' It was late 1974 when Mel Torme, 'The Velvet Fog', summoned Donny to the Fairmont San Francisco. Mel and his hired drummer had decided to part ways. Donny watched and tape recorded Mel's show from the back of the auditorium, then returned home confining himself to his tape recording and drum kit to learn the show. 'I learn best by listening' claims Osborne. On December 31, 1974 Donny Osborne launched his 24+ year career with Mel Torme at the Hyatt Regency Houston. Osborne recalls of the time that he was oblivious to the state of jazz as a result of the 20 year rock and roll incursion, or the advanced state of decline of Mel's career. The economics of big bands traveling by chartered bus ...