Word: drummers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Warren ("Baby") Dodds, 64, New Orleans-born jazz drummer, one of the greats in the history of jazz; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
Ramsey Lewis and His Gentlemen of Swing: Ramsey Lewis, piano; El Young, bass; Isaac Holt, drums (Argo LP). A lightly swinging trio brushes over some standards-Carmen, I'll Remember April -with a pleasantly antic air. Drummer Holt cuts his figures as fine and fancy as a man on a trampolin...
...sent to the pawnbroker's and have the diamonds picked out one by one?" There are anecdotes of the ' stamina and courage that made her beloved in old age-as when she trudged determinedly in George II's Coronation procession and "seized a drum from a drummer and blithely sat down on it [to rest]." Once, when the doctor whispered to an assistant, "She must be blistered or she will die," he heard the 80-year-old matriarch bellow back: "I won't be blistered...
...Night Session (Hampton Hawes Quartet; Contemporary, 3 LPs) seems designed to prove Composer Babbitt wrong, and to show once again that real jazz must be improvised. Pianist Hawes, Guitarist Jim Hall, Bass Player Red Mitchell and Drummer Bruz Freeman turned up at the studio one night and piled into Jordu and Groovin' High, and from there on "we just played because we love to play." The result is one of the few genuine jam sessions on LPs. The quartet offers some effervescent readings of blues and ballads, including four numbers composed on the spot by Pianist Hawes. For listeners...
Kent Murray, fourth child of a New Canaan, Conn. insurance agent (who doubles nights and weekends as a jazz drummer), had a normal birth but looked alarmingly blue and immediately needed oxygen. Still blue when he went home, he got bluer when he cried. Kent grew normally, but whenever he tried to play tag with other youngsters, he turned blue and gasped for breath. When he was five, doctors at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital found that his heart had only one ventricle (lower chamber). The result was that freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs was mixed in this...