Warren “Baby” Dodds
Warren “Baby” Dodds is often regarded as one of the most influential pioneers of jazz drumming. He began playing in New Orleans before settling in Chicago. His legendary work with leading jazz artists Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and many others allowed him to establish the foundation of jazz drumming. Along with many early classic jazz recordings with Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton, his 1946 solo recording Talking and Drum Solos is credited as the first unaccompanied drum solo recording made.

Anthony Cirone
As a percussionist, author, composer and educator, Anthony Cirone’s impact on the percussion community is widespread. In addition to performing in many chamber ensembles and new music groups, he played with the San Francisco Symphony as a member of the percussion section from 1965 until 2001. A prolific author and composer, he has over 70 published titles including textbooks, three symphonies for percussion, four sonatas, a string quartet and other orchestral works. He wrote Portraits in Rhythm, an influential collection of 50 studies for snare drum that is considered a standard text for teaching percussionists in colleges and universities. Additionally, he served on the percussion faculties at San José State University, Stanford University and more recently the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Steve Reich
Widely regarded as one of the greatest American composers of the century, Steve Reich has introduced many new musical ideas to the percussion world. Reich has won international acclaim as a composer, having just been presented with The Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was also awarded the Praemium Imperiale for Music Award in 2006 in Tokyo, Japan. Stateside, he has won two GRAMMY® awards and was named Composer of the Year by Musical America in 2000. Reich has written several works strictly or predominantly for percussion instruments including Drumming, Piano Phase for Two Marimbas, Clapping Music, Music for Pieces of Wood, Music for Mallet Instruments, Organ and Voices, Six Marimbas, Sextet and Nagoya Marimbas.

Below you will find a list of a few of the previous PAS Hall of Fame inductees, ordered by year. A complete list and more information about PAS or PASIC, visit www.pas.org.

PAS Hall of Fame inductees before 2007 (selection)
1975 - Gene Krupa
1978 - Louie Bellson
1982 - John Cage
1982 - Max Roach
1984 - Lionel Hampton
1985 - William \"Chick\" Webb
1986 - Remo Belli
1986 - Buddy Rich
1988 - Gary Burton
1990 - Jo Jones
1991 - Elvin Jones
1993 - Keiko Abe
1993 - Joe Morello
1994 - Armand Zildjian
1995 - Jim Chapin
1996 - Milt Jackson
1997 - Shelly Manne
1997 - Tony Williams
1998 - Roy Haynes
2001 - Joe Calato
2001 - Tito Puente
2002 - Ringo Starr
2002 - Ed Thigpen
2004 - Ed Shaughnessy
2005 - Steve Gadd
2006 - Billy Cobham
2006 - Martin Cohen