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...fiddle. The audience grew quiet. The guitarist, Cal Collins, jazzed in and out of the bass-line. A few heads in the audience nodded. Then pianist John Bunch took it alone for a little while, his hands roaming the keyboard like dancing spiders. The audience listened. Bunch stopped and drummer Connie Kay toyed with the beat. A few heads started bobbing. Then Kay stopped and all four jumped in. Heath plucked a bass line, Collins picked around it, Bunch's spiders danced on top, and Kay drove it along. More heads bobbed. Knees started bouncing up and down. The conversational...
That had to be taken seriously. Born in Indiana as Ernest McGee, Khaalis, 54, was discharged from the Army in World War II on grounds of mental instability. While working as a jazz drummer in New York City, he switched from Roman Catholicism to the Nation of Islam and rose to a trusted position before he broke with the Black Muslims in 1958. In the mid-1960s he formed his own group, the Hanafi. In 1968, he was arrested for trying to extort money from a bank, but charges were dismissed after he was found to be mentally disturbed...
...theoretically faces life imprisonment if found guilty. (Richard also faces a much less serious charge of possession of cocaine.) Was this the kind of company for the wife of Canada's head of government to be keeping? Almost everybody except Margaret clearly felt not. Even Stones Drummer Charlie Watts was overheard to mutter to Bassist Bill Wyman, "I wouldn't want my wife associating with...
...Rise Club hosts the Universally Powered Roy Hannes Hip Ensemble this week. And this is the real stuff. Mainstream, contemporary...not to sound picky but you'd think there must be other labels. But Roy from Roxbury is a great drummer and has played with Charlie Parker. He's also performed at Sandy's and the Jazz Workshop but this is the first time in quite a while that he's played at the Rise. He's gathered some new musicians around him and is apparently all psyched-up to play...
...wiry, intense man with a head like a parchment-covered cannon ball and a passion for skin diving, Ferrer was born in Santurce, P.R., in 1933. In New York City in his early twenties, he supported himself as a drummer with bands in Spanish Harlem. Cuban music, he recalls, gave him "the ability to bring out the tropical, primitive, emotional conditions of one's roots into the open, and to rejoice in their messiness and to be ... proud of their contradictions...