Mensa-El & Captain Moor – "Tron" Voyage
I made this album about 4 years ago during one of those deep, dark, cold Pennsylvania winters. My homie Jim Agguzi played the drums, of all sorts, and went on these wild percussion trips, drumming all over the walls and metal pipes sticking out of the walls in the [...]
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Jazz At The Corner Of The World Vol 2
ART BLAKEY and his various but unvaryingly persuasive quintets have brought their message to the millions, these past five years, through an impressive variety of channels: at jazz concerts and festivals, in night clubs from Birdland to the Club St. [...]
Senza Peso Title Page
This is an amazing project being completed by a couple friends of mine, along with a team of musicians, visual artists, dancers, directors and film editors. What started out as a concept, took a spark among the like-minded talent, and turned into an incredible visual and audio journey based on DrumAddict's song [...]
Art Blakey – Drum Suite
Drum Suite
As preparations for a test run for the Drum Suite began, the air in Columbia’s studios was filled with excitement. Jo Jones and Art Blakey moved over to their respective drums, Candido and Sabu picked up their bongos, Ray Bryant sat down at the piano and Oscar Pettiford got set [...]
Art Blakey And The Afro-Drum Ensemble – The African Beat
ART BLAKEY is a man of many bristling passions. Three of the most durable and consuming of his concerns are: jazz, African rhythms, and the limitless potential of the drum. All kinds of drums. In this unique album, Art has fused these three complementary enthusiasms into [...]
Mongo Santamaria – The Watermelon Man
“..,.And that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.” So wrote Richard Burton (1577-1640) in Anatomy of Melancholy.
Mongo Santamaria has often said that part of the beauty of [...]
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Jazz At The Corner Of The World Vol 1
ART BLAKEY and his various but unvaryingly persuasive quintets have brought their message to the millions, these past five years, through an impressive variety of channels: at jazz concerts and festivals, in night clubs from Birdland to the Club St. [...]
This is a great album, especially if you like drum-driven jazz with an excellent lineup. Remarkably, Elvin is the brother of two of my other jazz favorites, Hank and Sam Jones, and kept the time, laid the foundation, and held the rhythm on hundreds of recordings. He appeared on timeless albums like Miles Davis's Blue Moods [...]
More dependable, if rather predictable, early-'70s soul-jazz from Bryant, on one of the several sessions from the era that benefited from the forceful groove of drummer Idris Muhammad. It's the kind of music that network television used to employ at the time as background on film clips summarizing the week's pro basketball highlights — not [...]
