Chris Columbus (musician)

In the mid-to-late 1950s, Columbus backed Wild Bill Davis's organ combo, and he recorded with Duke Ellington in 1967.

While in France he played with Floyd Smith, Al Grey, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Buddy Tate, and Milt Buckner.

This record (with flip side an uptempo minor blues called "Minerology" [sic]) was fairly successful on radio in the early 1960s.

Columbo flipped his sticks in the air, bounced them off the floor and often leaped from a motorcycle seat which was his drum throne.

[9] To recognize his contributions to the history and music of Atlantic City, a section of Kentucky Avenue, home of Club Harlem, was renamed Chris Columbo Lane in 2005.