Matt Slocum, * July 18, 1981 in New Richmond, Wisconsin, is an American jazz drummer, recipient of a "Meet the Composers Foundation" grant, and lead drummer on his debut album, "Portraits".
Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1941) is an American drummer, considered an influential and innovative funk musician.
 He is known for his precise musical time keeping and his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat: the "Purdie Shuffle."
 He was inducted into the "Modern Drummer" Hall of Fame in 2013.
Bomba or Bomba del Chota is an Afro-Ecuadorian music, dance and rum al form from the Chota Valley area of Ecuador in the province of Imbabura and Carchi.
 Its origins can be traced back to Africa via the middle passage and the use of African slave labor during the country's colonial period.
 Africans brought to labor as slaves in Ecuador brought with them this music form heavily influenced from the Bantu cultures of the Congo.
 The people dance in pairs to the drums and use improvisation to build relationships between the dancer and lead drummer.
Steven McWhirter is a pipe band drummer from Northern Ireland.
 He has won multiple World Championship titles as a solo performer and as part of band.
 He is the lead drummer for the Inveraray & District Pipe Band.
Gregory Tristan "Tris" Imboden (born July 27, 1951) is an American rock and jazz drummer.
 As an educator, he has been a drum clinician and author of tutorial materials.
 As a performer, he has been in studio sessions and on tour with some of the most notable and highest-selling musicians of all time.
 s of 1990 , he has been best known as the lead drummer with the multi-platinum band, Chicago.
 He is a multi-platinum selling artist.
Gocoo, or GOCOO (ゴクウ ) are originally seven female and four male Taiko drummers from Tokyo (Japan).
 On stage Gocoo performs with up to 16 artists.
 Gocoo performed at major Music & Arts, Blues & Roots, Rock & Pop and alternative Rock festivals, in live clubs, classic theatres and concert halls or at techno events.
 Lead drummer, Kaoly Asano (浅野香 ), attracts much attention as a female Taiko artist.
 Whenever not performing with Gocoo on stage, she teaches the art of playing the Taiko at her Tawoo Taiko Dojo in Tokyo.
Moussa "Bolokada" Conde is a master drummer from Kissidougou, Guinea, expert of Malinke rhythms, and one of the world's foremost djembefolas.
 He joined the Les Percussions de Guinée to replace the legendary Noumoudy Keïta as their lead drummer.
 He has traveled and performed in major venues all over the world since 1996 and was featured in the IMAX movie "PULSE: a Stomp Odyssey."
 Since 2004, he has been performing and teaching in the United States.
 He has conducted percussion workshops in many cities in the US and Europe.
 He has released two musical CD's, "Morowaya" and "Sankaran".
 He stars in the DVD "M'bemba Fakoli: A Musical Journey Through Guinea" and has released the djembe instructional DVD "M'bara".
 He is the subject of an upcoming documentary, "Bolokada Conde—Malinke Village Djembefola".
 He was awarded immigrant status as an alien with extraordinary ability in the arts in 2007.
Ura is one of the popular traditional dances of the Cook Islands, a Maori sacred ritual usually performed by a female who moves her body to tell a story, accompanied by intense drumming by at least five drummers.
 Moving the hips, legs and hands give off different gestures to the audience to tell a tale, typically related to the natural landscape such as the ocean and birds and flowers, but also feelings of love and sadness.
 The ura dance has three distinct components; the ura pa'u (drum dances), korero (legends) and kaparima (action songs).
 To perform the ura, women typically wear a "pareu" and a "kikau" (grass) skirt, with flowers and shell headbands and necklaces known as "ei".
 Men during the dance are said to "vigorously flap their knees in a semi-crouched position while holding their upper bodies steady", and they typically wear "kikau" skirts and headbands.
 The drumming group, an integral part of the Ura, typically consists of a lead drummer ("pate taki"), support lead ("pate takirua"), a double player ("tokere" or "pate akaoro") playing wooden gongs, and two other players playing skin drums ("pa'u" and "mango").
 The finest performances of the Ura are put on in Rarotonga.
Stand By Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get) is an album led by jazz drummer Bernard Purdie which was recorded for the Mega label in 1971.
John Edmond (born 18 November 1936) is a folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs.
 He reached the height of his fame during the Rhodesian Bush War.
 He was sometimes called the "Bush Cat".
 During his childhood, he and his parents moved between Scotland and Central Africa.
 He went to school in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia, Edinburgh, Scotland, and in South Africa at Christian Brothers College in Pretoria.
 He displayed a natural talent for music at an early age when he was given a mouth organ as a birthday gift from his grandmother at age three.
 John mastered the instrument within half an hour.
 As a Boy Scout, he played the bugle and was in the local Scout bugle band.
 While at school in Edinburgh, he was chosen to sing in the famous St John's boys choir.
 He was regularly featured in lead roles at Christian Brothers College in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
 John was lead drummer in the college's pipe band.
 He went on to win the South African Junior drumming championships at the Royal Scottish gathering at Wembley in 1953.
 After college, John was employed at the Roan Antelope copper mine.

Question: The lead drummer of Stand By Me is known for innovation in what type of music? 
Answer: funk