[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Drumming Show on BBC Radio Today on the Internet & More

[John Petters]

Greetings Folks,
Here's the press release for a great show today and which will be 
available for 7 days as a Listen Again programme on the BBC web site.

Press Release

Stamp out lousy drumming with CRISP: the Campaign for Really Intelligent 
and Sensitive Percussion

CAMRA started something when it took to the barricades to protest about 
the lousy beer that was flooding our pubs. CRISP, the Campaign for 
Really Intelligent and Sensitive Percussion, aims to do the same for 
drumming. Dismayed by the rather dull and feeble slapping that passes 
for drumming these days listeners to the BBC’s Gold for Grownups are 
campaigning for the recognition of real drummers, people who are subtle 
and powerful drivers of great bands.

Their heroes are men like Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Sonny Payne, 
Shelley Manne, Sam Woodyard, Gene Krupa, Art Blakey and so on, legends 
of big band and small group swing. In the fifties Louie Bellson even 
made the charts with Skin Deep, a drum feature that occupied both sides 
of a ten-inch 78 by Duke Ellington’s orchestra. Veteran drummer Jack 
Parnell, who now lives in Southwold, recorded a version of it with his 
own big band.

“There’s genuine enthusiasm for the cause,” says Paul Barnes, Gold for 
Grownups presenter. “Listeners, including some who are drummers 
themselves, have piled in with some pretty passionate letters and 
e-mails. And it’s not just flashy drum solos that impress them; it’s the 
way a great drummer can propel a band like a wonderful and finely tuned 
engine.”

March to the beat of CRISP on Saturday evening, March 24 between 6.00 
and 9.00 on BBC Radio Norfolk.

You can listen live between 6 - 9 PM on BBC Radio Norfolk, Suffolk, 
Essex, Cambrisgeshire. The link is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/norfolk.shtml

or to listen again from Sunday onwards:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/norfolk/aod.shtml?norfolk/paul_barnes_norfolk

End of release.


Don't forget there are articles with audio clips on Gene Krupa, Baby 
Dodds, Zutty Singleton and Black Happy Goldston on my website. The link is:
http://www.traditional-jazz.com/mainpages/drummers.htm
and there are a number of videos on our You Tube group including my drum 
tution clips of the basics of traditional jazz drumming and some Gene 
Krupa breaks. Some of the clips have had over 4,000 viewings.
The link to the videos is:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=johnpetters

Keep swinging & have a good weekend
-- 
John Petters
www.traditional-jazz.com
Amateur Radio Station G3YPZ