Buddy Deppenschmidt, a jazz drummer who learned the rhythms of Brazilian music on a State Department tour, then appeared on a best-selling 1962 album, “Jazz Samba,” which helped launch a worldwide bossa nova boom, died March 20 at a nursing facility in Doylestown, Pa. He was 85.
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Buddy Deppenschmidt, drummer who helped spur ’60s bossa nova boom, dies at 85
By Matt Schudel