Bob Cousins

American jazz drummer. Known as "Cuz." Member of the Dixieland Jazz ensemble Salt City Five. Departed in the late 1950s, and was drummer in Chicago for Coleman Hawkins, Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge, Tex Beneke's Big Band, Ralph Marterie, Bobby Hackett, Pee Wee Erwin, Marian McPartland, Bucky Pizzerelli, Jimmy McPartland, Art Hodes, Muggsy Spanier, Benny Carter's Big Band, and George Brunis. While with the house band at Chicago's College Inn, he backed up Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Englebert Humperdink and Tiny Tim.