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Listen to Buddy Rich some time, and then play a record by Lionel Hampton, called Shufflin' at the Hollywood, with Cozy Cole on drums. You hardly hear Cozy on this record, but you can feel the beat, and the way he builds it up. Cozy has a superb sense of phrasing, and everything he does fits in with the band. And this is the point I'm trying to get at : if a drummer doesn't fit in with a band, he's playing flash and is a one-man band himself. This seems to me to be extremely important...
Cozy is a marvelous drummer, noted especially for his amazingly powerful press roll, that being a steady roll gotten by sticks on a snare drum, with a snap that gives it a swell lift. Listen to records like "Ratamacue" and "Crescendo in Drums" by Cab on Vocalion or "Shufflin' at The Hollywood" (Victor-Lionel Hampden) and you'll get the general idea...
...GOOD NEWS, FUNNY FACE, RAIN OR SHINE, MANHATTAN MARY, KEEP SHUFFLIN', PRESENT ARMS, SHOW BOAT, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE, THE THREE MUSKETEERS...
Darkest - KEEP SHUFFLIN...
Entirely frivolous: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin...