The CU Boulder College of Music community mourns the loss of alumnus Ben Pollack (BME ’14) who unexpectedly passed away of natural causes on Dec. 14, 2023, in his home near Denver, Colorado. He was 31 ...

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum Jazz Band drummer Hal Smith joins host David Holt to talk about Ben Pollack's often overlooked contribution to jazz. The show is heard on public radio stations ...

Ben Pollock often dominated the competition while playing at Cheswick Christian Academy. Pollock then went to Mount Vernon Nazarene, an NAIA program located about 45 minutes northeast of Columbus, ...

In the summer of 1922 a dark, brush-headed trap drummer named Gene Bertram Krupa, not long out of a Catholic college, heard Drummer Ben Pollack’s band play in a Chicago hotspot. What struck him most ...