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Bellson's drum-set was only the first of many brushes with percussive innovation. Swing bandleader Tommy Dorsey created a revolving platform for Bellson so that audiences could see the action from the drummer's point of view. Bellson went on to dazzle audiences with an awesome technical dexterity, making...

Author: By Young-ho Yoon, | Title: Bellson's Jazz Drums Through the Blue Note | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

Ellington, who for Bellson represented "the perfect bandleader," showed off the drummer in such memorable tunes as "Skin Deep." A seven-minute recording of that piece features more than three minutes of continuous drum solos, both bass drums pounding at top speed. Playing swing, jazz, orchestral and even sacred music...

Author: By Young-ho Yoon, | Title: Bellson's Jazz Drums Through the Blue Note | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

First of all, the band achieves a different sound from most pop-rock bands by blending Matthews's acoustic guitar with two instruments not usually found in today's scene: a violin and a saxo phone. These two are not used sparingly either; most of the band's jamming came...

Author: By Michael R. Colton, | Title: OpArT | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

Not only Taylor's piano technique, but his stamina itself is astonishing by the 1960s. The mental stamina needed to keep a group together in a period when he couldn't possibly make a living playing his music is matched by the physical stamina of a true athlete: Taylor's...

Author: By Eric D. Plaks, | Title: Passionate Taylor Grooves | 1/20/1995 | See Source »

This music sparkles with clean, crisp lines, but doesn't bite. Though Grisman and Rice chose many traditional tunes, they've failed to invest them with a sense of rootedness. The songs do not seem connected to their cultural traditions, be it Appalachian string music, Irish jug band music or...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: Tone Poems Lacks Expressiveness | 12/15/1994 | See Source »

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