Osie Johnson was an American jazz drummer

He made four albums under his own name and played and recorded with Manny Albam, Mose Allison, Bob Brookmeyer, Clifford Brown, Ray Bryant, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Cleveland, Arnett Cobb, Al Cohn (seven albums), Freddy Cole, Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller, Bennie Green, Freddie Green, Urbie Green, Tiny Grimes, Gigi Gryce, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Hartman, Coleman Hawkins (nine albums), Johnny Hodges, Claude Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Illinois Jacquet, J. J. Johnson, Hank Jones, Quincy Jones, Mundell Lowe, Junior Mance, Gary McFarland, Howard McGhee, Carmen McRae, Helen Merrill, Phineas Newborn, Jr., Joe Newman, Oscar Pettiford, Bud Powell, Jimmy Raney, George Russell, Pee Wee Russell, A. K. Salim, Shirley Scott, Zoot Sims, Hal Singer, Sonny Stitt, Sylvia Syms, Billy Taylor, Ben Webster, Frank Wess, Joe Wilder, Cootie Williams, Kai Winding, Phil Woods, Earl Hines, Thelonius Monk and others.

This is Osie playing "Jazz Concerto Grosso" with Phil Sunkel's Band featuring jazz legends Gerry Mulligan & Bob Brookmeyer. This is what is called "Cool" jazz which was started by Miles Davis and Gerry Mulligan. The expression "cool" comes from cool jazz (which started being used around 1953) in reference to this kind of music.