Pete Sims

Peter Sims (born in 1938) is an American jazz drummer who performed for much of his career under the name Pete La Roca. He adopted that name early in his musical career when he played in Latin bands.

Between 1957 and 1968 he played with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, the John Coltrane Quartet, Marian McPartland, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bley, and Steve Kuhn, among others, as well as leading his own group and working as the house drummer at the Jazz Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 1968 he left music to become a lawyer. He returned to jazz in 1979.