Drummer

Recruited from the streets of Harlem, a talented drummer (Nick Cannon) assumes he'll be top dog in a Southern university marching band. He's got another think coming in Drumline (9 p.m.-11:40 p.m., TBS). At a glance Fashion Rocks (9 p.m.-11 p.m., WJZ, Channel 13) - Top acts play, clothes are modeled. CBS. Reba (9 p.m.-9:30 p.m., WNUV, Channels 54) - Reba's had it up to here with Van's drinking and forces him to attend a support group. WB. Hope & Faith (9 p.m.-9:30 p.m., WMAR, Channel 2)

ONCE YOU ARE under the yoke of a marriage, a mortgage, a couple of kids and a semi-responsible job, you realize something has got to give. As in, give up. And that something is usually something pleasurable, like your book club or your pick-up basketball games or movie dates or sleep. Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley is giving up his rock band. Since his election in 1999, the Clark Kent mayor has been shedding his shirt and tie to become the well-muscled lead singer of an Irish rock band.

When Chick Webb - the nationally famous swing-era jazz drummer whose "Stompin' at the Savoy" was defined by long and furious riffs that drove crowds wild - died in 1939, his obituary in The Evening Sun rated a two-column headline. At the time, this was a rare honor generally accorded only those of social prominence, professional attainment or other movers and shakers. In truth, if anyone got crowds moving and shaking when he sat down to play the drums, it was Webb. He was born William Henry Webb in Baltimore in either 1902 or 1909 - there is some discrepancy as to which year is correct - and raised in poverty near Madison Street and Ashland Avenue.

Warren Marshall Raymond, a Columbia Association horticulturist and former drummer in several area bands, died of cancer Sunday at his Columbia home. He was 58. Born in Baltimore and raised on Regester Avenue in Idlewylde, he was a 1964 graduate of Towson High School. He attended what was then Catonsville Community College. Mr. Raymond began playing drums at age 9 and worked his way into performing with the Towson-based RaVons, and the Jetsons, which featured 1960s soul tunes. Friends said he answered a newspaper ad that read "drummer wanted."

Ah, Thanksgiving morning. Pull up the covers. Let that killer three-day workweek melt away into slumber. Let the muted sounds of the theme song to Hawaii Five-0 played by a marching band fall lightly on the ears. Let the old appetite wake slowly to the smells of turkey just popped in the oven. Hey, wait. What was that third thing? Get out of bed! You're missing NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (9 a.m.-noon, WBAL, Channel 11)! You can sleep after dinner. At a glance Spider-Man (8 p.m.-10:30 p.m., WBFF, Channel 45)

She is smiling too much, a Broadway smile. But it's just rehearsal - it's not the real crucifixion. For now, 16-year-old Jodi Wenger can kid around as two high school classmates hoist her off her feet and onto a 2-by-4 crucifix stand-in. What's important at this stage is not to be spun into the bass drums or get clipped by the Flag Guard. She'll lose the smile for the show, but you don't want to lose a tooth. It's very serious business representing Christ from that movie of last year called The Passion of the Christ.

On Sunday, August 22, 2004, ELIZABETH EVELYN DRUMMER (nee Atkinson) beloved wife of the late William L. Drummer Jr., loving mother of Pamela Di Pietro, mother-in-law of Albert A. Di Pietro Jr., cherished grandmother of Anne Marie and Amey E. Di Pietro. Survived by many loving family and friends. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may made to the American Cancer Society Mid Atlantic Division, POB 43025, Baltimore, MD, 21236-0025. Arrangements by WITZKE FUNERAL HOME OF CATONSVILLE INC., 410-744-8600.

Drummer Elvin Jones was the great propelling force that drove the John Coltrane quartet into vast new territories of jazz, territories that new generations of musicians are still exploring . He was a drummer of inexhaustible energy - physically, emotionally and spiritually - which was a very good thing indeed, because Coltrane could play for hours, wringing the last scrap of meaning from a musical idea. Jones played with Coltrane from 1960 to 1966, an extraordinarily fertile time for jazz music.

Elvin Jones, whose explosive drumming powered the John Coltrane Quartet, the most influential and controversial jazz ensemble of the 1960s, died yesterday in New York. He was 76 and lived in Manhattan and Nagasaki, Japan. Mr. Jones' death, which came after several months of failing health, was announced by John DeChristopher, director of artist relations for the Avedis Zildjian Co., maker of Jones' cymbals. Jones continued to perform until a few weeks ago, often taking an oxygen tank onto the bandstand.

The former drummer for heavy metal band Judas Priest was jailed Friday for eight years for the attempted rape of a teenager while giving him drum lessons. David Holland was convicted last month of one charge of attempted rape and five counts of indecent assault on the 17-year-old youth, who has learning difficulties, at the drummer's rural English home in 2002. Sentencing Holland in Northampton Crown Court, Judge Charles Wide said the drummer had planned the abuse and must never again be allowed to work with children.