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...there like that one day and a wagon ran over him. He never laid that way again. He always walked funny after that. He was a good dog, though. Sam Breedlaw give him to me. Sam's married to my sister. He's a chamberpot and pin drummer...
...giving them a remarkable measure of freedom. The group's spontaneity-perhaps the strongest remaining link to Herman's jazz past-attests to that. So does the individual success of such former Herman sidemen as Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Shorty Rogers, Pete Candoli and Neal Hefti. Says Drummer Jake Hanna. an ex-Herd man: "Woody goes along with the wav the band feels, instead of sticking strictly to the book. If a man's really blowin'. Woody doesn't stop him after eight bars because the arrangement says...
...Thing, Dino has become a dancer and Reds a drummer-both hope for show-business careers. They are also working on a film about hustling in the streets. "I want everything to be real," says Dino, "so that people can see what's really going down. When I look at TV, ain't nothing in there I've seen before. Like in all the pictures with black people, they got to be some white guy who's his best friend. It ain't always that way. And that show Julia-she's just...
...music suddenly slashes at the eardrums. The musicians, dressed in dashikis or undershirts, are bent into their efforts, sweating, their faces expressionless. Their sounds are warm and swirling, then frenetic, the horns bleating, the drummer flailing, the pianist pouncing intently at the keyboard. The tune is unidentifiable, the melody shattered into ravaged fragments, the rhythms complex and seemingly .beyond grasp...
...learned GANGOLA METHOD OF HINDOO CONTINENCE and could, especially very late on nights of Turkish excursion in the bathtub, stay awake and hard as grain inside Merilee for an hour or more. Sam claimed to be much taken with the Method, but Merilee sensed her Sam was a drummer and banger and welder and breaker and she admitted to herself Gangola Method was not ever going to become the Sole Trick in her Sam's Bag. That was OK too. Love makes us love in our lovers what we don't love in anybody else or even in ourselves...