[Dixielandjazz] Mickey Roker was Chubby Checker was It's Trad, Dad.

[Marek Boym]

He played in Caesarea last year.
Cheers

On 13/04/2008, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hello Marek:
>
> Mickey Roker is still alive and well in Philadelphia. He is a certified
> drumming legend who played with just about everybody except Charlie Parker
> in the more modern genres of jazz.
>
> He is a very nice man, very giving, full of humor and very willing to share
> his expertise with kids. He is a year older than I am and frequently plays
> at Ortliebs Jazz Haus here in Philly.
>
> He and his favorite bassist Bob Cranshaw, started performing  together 40+
> years ago and they always kept a sense of  blues feel and a swinging
> rhythmic pulse.
>
> Like our bassist, Cranshaw played the chord roots while Roker swung, no
> matter how boppish the tune might be. They were the kind of straight ahead
> rhythm section that horn plays die for. In the pocket as drummers like to
> say.
>
> Roker is still playing great. I think Cranshaw may have retired, but he did
> play with Roker up to a couple of years ago. Very underrated bass player
> IMO, neat walking lines.
>
> BTW, scrapers are serrated, like a file or rasp, wooden or bone etc.,
> instruments that are scraped with a stick to create a scratchy sound. They
> go back thousands of years in music all over the world. Still very big in
> Latin Jazz, etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>
> On Apr 12, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Marek Boym wrote:
>
> > During the twist craze, Ray Bryant issued an excellent - swinging -
> > record "Dancing the Big Twist," with Joe Newman and Pat Jenkins (tpt),
> > Buddy Tate (ten), Matthew Gee (tbn), bryant on piano, Jimmy Rowser
> > (bass) and Mickey Roker (dms) on seven of the eight tracks; the other
> > track - "Fast Twist," had Harry Edison on trumpet, Ben Richardson
> > (bar), Bryant, Bill Lee (bass), Gus Johnson (dms) and Ray Barretto
> > (percussion and scraper, whatever the latter means).
> > Cheers
> >
>
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