[Dixielandjazz] "Drummerless" bands [was "Turk Murphy"]

[Bert Thompson]

In a short piece I wrote on "drumerless" bands some time back, this was the closing paragraph:       A jazz band without a (good) drummer is like a creature without a 
pulse, or at best a weak one, as far as I am concerned.  Among celebrated 
jazz bands that eschewed drummers was Turk Murphy’s, and I don’t for a 
moment suggest they were not a good band in any of their configurations.  
But they were a better one when they had Thad Vandon or Lloyd Byassee 
or Wayne Jones in the back line.  It was no accident, I believe, that Murphy 
opted not to go drummerless (as he certainly could have) at one of the high 
points, if not the highest, of his career: the Carnegie Hall Concert.  I haven't changed my mind.  Regards,   Bert Thompson
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