Drummer-percussionist, author, educator, composer, and producer Ed Uribe died on November 20, 2015.

He played with a variety of artists, including Ray Barretto, Paquito D’Rivera, Randy Brecker, Gary Burton, Michel Camilo, George Coleman, Tania Maria, Donald Byrd, Dave Samuels, Angela Bofill, David Friedman, Claudio Roditi, Andy Narell, the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabakin Orchestra, and Lionel Hampton. He also worked as a producer and editor of audio, video, print, and multimedia works.

Uribe’s books The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion & Drum Set and The Essence of Brazilian Percussion & Drum Set, published by Alfred Music, are considered definitive. As a composer he wrote the title track for Ray Barretto’s Concord Records release Handprints.Uribe was a professor at Berklee College of Music for 17 years, and was one of the youngest musicians hired by the school. He developed the school’s Latin percussion and percussion technology programs, along with other curriculum. He also taught for the graduate school of the New England Conservatory of Music.

Upon news of his death, his colleague Victor Mendoza posted that Uribe was “a great all-around musician, simply one of the best. Educator, composer, arranger, technology wiz, editor for Warner Bros, and one of the best roommates you could ever wish for, considerate, supportive and kind. He was one of the most fun and brilliant people I have ever known. Most of all he was a good man, a tireless worker and a great and dear friend.”