[Dixielandjazz] Drum talent

[Patrick Cooke]

> What talent does it take to play the Drums....????<

    Obviously a question posed by a non-drummer....or someone who has never
played with a bad drummer....or a good one!
    Pat Cooke



----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Hooks" <charliehooks at earthlink.net>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Question !


> on 2/22/03 6:52 PM, SIngram520 at aol.com at SIngram520 at aol.com wrote:
>
> > What talent does it take to play the Drums....????
>
>
> IMHO:  A really fine drummer (in my city, Chicago, I think of Rusty Jones,
> of Charlie Braugham) must play (in his mind at the least, and at best at
the
> most) ALL the instruments!  He must master their possibilities; and, if he
> is as great a drummer as, say, Charlie Braugham, he will know what they
are
> going to play before they know themselves. [ I regard Charlie Braugham as
> some sort of mental wizard--but then, so do Clark Terry and Marian
> McPartland and others who demand Charlie when they come into town.  Rusty
> was with Marian for years, and with George Shearing for far longer.]  Dear
> friend, favorite player!
>
>     There are others here: Paul Wertigo, for one, who is a drummer's dream
> technician post-bop player.  I don't enjoy him; but I insist that this is
my
> fault, not Paul's.  Fantastic player!  Just not for me.
>
>     What am I saying here?   Great drummers are enormous talents!  They
can
> create a band!  Without one, you can have a good band; but you have no
> chance at a great band.  Horn players like me can come and go, shooting up
> stars and Roman Candles.  But the deep boot, the beam of the band, is the
> drummer.  [And, for me, the bass player--but I won't get started on that!]
>
>     Oh, man!  I have played with some of the greatest!  And I guarantee
that
> if you haven't, then you can't really imagine them!  Barrett Deems.  Butch
> Miles.  Jerry Mackinzie.  Jay McShann.  They project enormous strength
that
> is under total control, plus an incredible quickness both of mind and
body.
>
>     "How much talent does it take to play drums?"  A lot.
>
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
>
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