The program opens with his version of "The Little Drummer Boy, " performed on A Jazz Piano Christmas XIII in 2002.

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"She would stomp out the beat with her right foot and, boy, the drummer better play Koko's beat, " Iglauer says.

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His towering height getting on for seven feet gave him a commanding presence in the Salvation Army, which he joined as a drummer-boy, rising to be a captain, and which provided him with the rudiments of education.

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