[Dixielandjazz] Re: Female Drummers

[Charles Suhor]

On May 13, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Patrick Cooke wrote:
>
>     I remember seeing a female drummer in Miami years ago.....I think 
> her name was Kitty Kelly.  When I came into the club, there was no one 
> on the stand.  There was a full set of drums on the stand...not the 
> cocktail set I had expected to see.  Then a verrry pretty girl came in 
> wearing a long narrow skirt that allowed her to take 6-inch steps.  I 
> thought "This can't be her, she could never play in that tight skirt." 
>  When she got up to the stand, she reached down to the floor and 
> grabbed a zipper , and zipped the skirt open all the way to her waist! 
>  She straddled the snare like a real drummer (as opposed to a cocktail 
> drummer) and kicked off the first tune.  I don't remember the tune, 
> but she was a good drummer, and I'll never forget that zipper!
>   Pat Cooke
>

A great musician's anecdote, Pat, plus it says so much in one paragraph 
about the subtlety, power, and poetry of sexual attraction.

ZIP!

Charlie Suhor