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Mongo Santamaria is at the Jazz Workshop until Sunday, and plays fast, rhythmic, big-band Afro-Cuban stuff centering around his own bongo and drum work...
Mongo Santamaria, next door at the Jazz Workshop all week, is a drum and bongo player from Cuba. He likes to go with a big, varied, high-energy band, using what's known in the trade as a heavy Afro-Cuban beat. He sounds like a sort of forefather to Santana, and definitely worth seeing...
Elvin Jones, with almost no advance publicity, is sneaking into the Jazz Workshop this week. Jones is, quite simply, the best jazz drummer in the world. He's at his best in a small place; when he plays he screws an omnipresent cigarette into his mouth, contorts his face into an impossible squint to keep the smoke out of his eyes, nods his head to unseen rhythms and plays terriffic rapid-fire solos. A real virtuoso...
...Haynes and the Hip Ensemble are next door at the Jazz Workshop. Haynes is a superb jazz drummer who has played with all sorts of greats (John Coltrane, for example), but we must confess we have our doubts about how interesting it can be to listen to somebody play drums for two hours. If you think drums can work as a lead instrument, by all means go; if anyone can pull it off it's Haynes. Though Sunday...
...Haynes and the Hip Ensemble is (are?) at the Jazz Workshop this week. Haynes is a very good jazz drummer who has played for Coltrane and other greats, but who can listen to somebody play drums for two hours...