In Memoriam Lenny DiMuzio When Lennie DiMuzio died this past March 7 after a long battle with cancer, the phrase “end of an era” was truly appropriate. During his decades working at Zildjian and then for Sabian, DiMuzio defined what artist relations could mean. “You weren’t just clients who played their cymbals,” Kenny Aronoff says. “Lennie really cared about the endorsers.” DiMuzio was born on May 4, 1933, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After high school he studied at the New England Conservatory and the Schillinger House. He was drafted into the army during the Korean War and sent to Germany. After he returned, he was working as a drummer when Armand Zildjian heard him playing in a Boston bar. “He was a damn good drummer,” Armand told MD in 1986. “He knew what he was doing, and he was a very likable, affable fellow.” DiMuzio spent over forty years working for […]

September 2015 Issue