Drummer, teacher, and author Sam Ulano died on January 2, 2014 at age 93. Ulano started playing drums at age 13 and studied with Alfred Freize and Fred Albright. By age 17 Ulano was teaching drums. He spent four years playing in an Army band and then attended the Manhattan School of Music. He began working clubs in New York City and the Catskills, and played in jazz, swing, Dixieland and show bands throughout his career, including 15 years at the Gaslight Club. He was also a prolific author of instructional books, and he published various drum-oriented newsletters and newspapers over the years while running his own drum studio in New York. Calling himself “Mr. Rhythm,” he did music-instruction shows for the New York City public schools, and he also made recordings of nursery rhymes told over drum backgrounds.