[Dixielandjazz] Drummer Ed Shaughnessy

[Marek Boym]

A great story, and SO educational!
Cheers

On 17/12/2009, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> There is a neat article from Jazz Times - January/February 2010 about
> Drummer Ed Shaughnessy, soon to be 81 years old. He was the "Tonight
> Show"(Johnny Carson) drummer for 30 years or so, taking the gig after the
> jazz club work in NYC dried up. It is long, but here is a snip from it. To
> see more, go to:
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> http://jazztimes.com/articles/25456-ed-shaughnessy-one-more-thing-to-get-right
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> “When I made the first album with Basie,” says Shaughnessy, “we ran the
> first tune down, sort of a medium-hard swinger. I’m playing what I think I
> should play for the Basie band, because with that band, if you don’t play
> with heart and soul, it’s not going to happen. But when we stop, the guy who
> was in the control room says, ‘Well, that was very good, but we think maybe
> we could take a lot less drums.’ And Basie, who’s sitting at the piano,
> wearing his yachting cap, takes his fist and hits it on the piano and roars
> like a lion. Like this: Rrroarrroow! And everybody just froze. I asked
> [Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis] later, ‘Does he do that often?’ And he says, ‘No,
> maybe once a year.’ Anyhow, Basie picks up a mic and says, very quietly, ‘I
> have Mr. Shaughnessy here to play with my band because he knows how to play
> with my band. Your job is to get it. Do you get it?’ And the answer was,
> ‘Yes, sir.’”
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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