Word: drummers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chico Hamilton Quintet (Pacific Jazz). Thirteen of the dapper, low-keyed arrangements that have made Drummer Hamilton an important figure in the jazz of the West Coast. There are such oldies as September Song (in which the theme is only obliquely hinted at in the bass), but more new numbers such as Bass Player Carson Smith's Chanel #5, which is shot through with a wistful flute solo...
...angle for, and some neighborhood barstool habitues. Coleman. a 27-year-old former child prodigy from The Bronx, decided to launch the room chiefly because he lived up the street, wanted a nearby showcase for his piano, and was tired of working for other people. He signed up a drummer and a bass player, opened seven months ago. He plays when the urge hits him or when the unadorned, beige-upholstered room is comfortably filled. A pianist of infinitely varied beat and volume, he is as effective on lacy, lilting numbers like My One and Only Love...
...right knee, pumps his foot convulsively and whangs his guitar, occasionally wrenching his pelvis Elvis-fashion. Most often he sounds like Grand Ole Opry cornball recorded at 33⅓ r.p.m. played at 78. Backing up the young (25) Glasgow-born skiffler are a second guitarist, a two-beat drummer and the best showman of the combo, a red-goateed bass plucker named Mickey Ashman, who twirls his big fiddle, tops the act by rolling on the floor with...
Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in his arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly plaintive, twangy melody. Beside him the tabla (drum) thrummed and rataplanned a shifting, syncopated beat, and behind him a four-stringed, unfretted lute named the tamboura thinly droned its hypnotic accompaniment. Thus Sitarist Shankar...
...gourds which serve as sound box and resonator. Indian music is based on melodic forms known as ragas. Neither scales nor modes, ragas are separate, individual series of notes-there are thousands of different ragas-most of them passed orally from one musician to another. In combination with the drummer's rhythm, a raga gives the starting theme of a composition. The sitar player can improvise as long as he does not use notes other than those included in the basic raga. Each raga expresses an individual mood, e.g., tranquillity, loneliness, love, heroism, and is designed to be performed...