Buddy Deppenschmidt, drummer who helped spur ’60s bossa nova boom, dies at 85

Buddy Deppenschmidt, a jazz drummer who learned the rhythms of Brazilian music on a State Department tour, then appeared on a best-selling 1962 album, “Jazz Samba,” which helped launch a worldwide bossa nova boom, died March 20 at a nursing facility in Doylestown, Pa. He was 85.

His daughter Allyson Cover confirmed the death and said the cause was dementia. Mr. Deppenschmidt’s longtime partner, Marjorie Danciger, said he had recovered from a bout of covid-19.