Showing posts with label Drummer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drummer. Show all posts

2010/10/26

Geri Allen + Patrice Rushen w/ Special Guest Terri Lyne Carrington | Kennedy Center

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Playing on two facing Steinway Grand pianos, Kennedy Center favorite Geri Allen shared the stage with R&B hitmaker Patrice Rushen ("Forget Me Nots").  They were joined by in-demand drummer Terri Lyne Carrington for a unique evening of music.

A jazz pianist, composer and arranger, Allen was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Music Composition in 2008 and the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Award in 2010. The New York Times hails the Howard University alum as "a jazz pianist who dares to follow an unmarked road."

Multi-Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, composer and pianist Patrice Rushen (returning to the Center for the first time since 1996) has been praised for playing that is "stunning" and "consistently powerful" (Los Angeles Times).

World-renowned drummer/composer/producer Terri Lyne Carrington's ongoing appearances at the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival and music direction for the all-star concert Billie & Me have also secured her place as a Kennedy Center favorite.

2010/07/17

Steve Moore | Give the Drummer Some



Analogously love your instrument and/or job like Rick K and the Allnighters drummer Steve Moore? Relatively not!

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2010/06/21

Tony Allen Delivers 'Secret Agent'





NPR: Weekend Edition Sunday [9 min 13 sec]

Akin to The Matrix deja-vu just this past weekend I was just scolding myself for not listening to Tony Allen more frequently and for not having a more robustly expanded TA's discography — then I heard this story while on-the-road today.

NPR discusses Tony Allen's, Fela Kuti's drummer, whom "without Tony Allen," Kuti once said, "there would be no Afrobeat", newest album titled Secret Agent.

Allen frustrated, as I, in a music landscape where electronic instruments routinely stand in for acoustic drums says, "There are no drummers these days anymore," he says. "Most of them are not even wanting to [play the drums] when the machine is there to do the job. I respect every drummer that I see keeping the drums going."

Keep heartbeat of music, the drum, alive (Afrobeat or not).


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