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DIED. RAY MCKINLEY, 84, drummer, singer, and pop-orchestra maestro whose crossbreeding of boogie-woogie with Big Band gave birth to a string of hits, including the memorable musical command Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar; in Largo, Florida...
...city campaign, hailed by some as a "Led Zeppelin reunion," was the first tour for the two musicians since they disbanded Zeppelin following the sudden death of drummer John Bonham...
Tony Throne offers a more aggressive assessmentof the necessity for the street performer tomaintain faith in self. "If you listen to whateverybody else says, you ain't getting nowhere.Everybody's trying to hold you down." The drummer,who claims he got the idea of bucket drums fromhis "cousin Larry, the 501 commercial guy in NewYork City," is currently working on an albumslated for release this summer...
...found on /Band of Gypsys. The band on this album features a rhythm section that consists of Hendrix's childhood pals, Billy Cox on bass and Buddy Miles at the drums and supplying many of the vocals. Although Miles is perhaps not so exciting and virtuosic a drummer as his predecessor Mitch Mitchell, Cox is definitely a better, funkier and less egotistical bass player than Hendrix' long-time sideman, Noel Redding...
...Buckshot LeFonque, Marsalis has concocted a veritable musical melting pot: a funk bassist, an electric guitarist, a latin percussionist, two keyboardists (one on Fender Rhodes, the other piano), a jazz horn section (trombone, trumpet and Marsalis on alto and tenor saxophones), a hip-hop drummer and a rap DJ, with intermittent help from a house rapper and three Caribbean dancehall rappers...