Keith Purvis was a noted Puget Sound area drummer and percussion teacher. For years he owned Purvis Drum Shop in Burien.



Before Keith Purvis died in 2004, he had played drums for Sammy Davis Jr., the Mills Brothers, Count Basie and Pearl Bailey.



Keith's wife Betty Purvis plays drums too: she's the only woman in Bob's Swing Band, still taking her place at the drums even though she became ninety years old in 2011.