[Dixielandjazz] Melodious Drummers

[Harry Callaghan]

Ken:

Is that the same album where Satch and Verna Middleton did a duet on "That's
My Desire"?.

It was strictly cornball but I've always loved it.

HC


On 7/15/10, Ken Mathieson <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Some drummers are great technical drummers and others are great musicians
> whose instrument happens to be drums. Big Sid Catlett is an outstanding
> example of the latter: his time was rock-solid, he phrased to support
> soloists' and ensemble phrasing, he swung like the clappers and you can sing
> great swathes of his solos on Boff Boff and Steak Face from the Armstrong
> All-Stars' 1947 Boston Symphony Hall recordings. He was cited by both
> Armstrong and Sidney Bechet as their favourite drummer because his playing
> made it easy for them to play oin a natural unforced manner. Small wonder
> then that Louis Armstrong remarked, on listening to several of his
> recordings, that the swingingest records all had Big Sid on them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ken Mathieson
> www.classicjazzorchestra.org.uk
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