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Wow !! Thanks so much, Sebastian 🤩🙏I appreciate the kind words🕺

Thanks for the kind words ❤ I appreciate it 🕺

Wow ❤ thanks so much for the kind words… (or word 🤪).

Thanks So Much 🕺🙏👍🤩

@@Jazzrob891 you’re very welcome. I’m glad that you dig it. 🙏🕺❤️👍

The CRAZY and almost sad thing is that he makes it seem SOOO natural and smooth that it's easy to miss how insane his technique, sound, feel, touch, groove and ideas are. He makes it all seem normal... and does exactly what the song is asking him to do. But I think so many people are missing the OUTRAGEOUS PHENOMENON that he and his playing are. I actually think he might be the best ever or in the top 2 or 3 drummers ever lived. He is the Ferrari or Rolls Royce of Drumming, IMO. After I listen to ENRICO PIERANUNZI - LIVE IN PARIS.. other groups like Miles with Tony, Chick Corea or Keith Jarret just seem like they are in slow motion and not really doing much of anything. Which, of course, is insane. That album just might be the single, craziest, highest level of any jazz recording ever captured. Not just one song... but the whole thing or at least, most of it. It's relentless. I think of ANDRE like POSEIDON the GOD of the SEA. He could destroy an armada of ships or he can calm the Sea to absolute stillness and innocence in an instant. He is a musical witch : )

@@tuknchuk I think the crème of the drumming community is aware of this, . As a drummer myself I've been studying Andrè since I first heard him play on a trio record of Bireli Lagrene, many many years ago. I've seen him live any time I could and talked to him. He's style is so unique that I easily put him in the Olympus of the great multi purpose drummers of his generation together with Gadd, Erskine, Weckl and Colaiuta, just to name a few. he is at that level. What I think makes him truly unique is his ability to combine power and softness in a very round and accurate tone.

@@sunflowerguy5314, wow, that’s a fascinating thought or question. I’ll try to look into this when I have time. I haven’t noticed Elvin feathering on these tracks. But I’d like to know more about Elvin’s (and some others, as well) approach to different tempos and feels. I’m really curious about feathering when it comes to playing in a 2 feel (some play/ feather beats 1&3 on the bass) and also what about playing in 3. Did/does anyone feather the kick in 3. This is almost never (if ever) talked about by the people preaching feathering. Thanks for your input. 👍🙏🤩

Hey, thanks for the message. I appreciate you taking the time to let me know. Could you please show me where this mistake is ? I made several videos with Roy, Tony and Elvin and I just copied and pasted the descriptions from one video to the other... And I definitely made several mistakes like this... and didn't correct them all right away. So, I fully expected to find the mistake that you mentioned... but strangely, I don't see it. I even did the "Find in Page..." (Command + F) for the computer to show me where "tony" or even "ton" was on the page. But the computer doesn't see it. I sincerely didn't fix my error first and now I'm playing dumb and claiming that I didn't make any mistakes. No need for that, I'm a drummer... which are rumored to not be the sharpest knife in the drawer. And, like I said, I myself have found where I made the exact mistake, you described, many times. Not sure what's going on. Maybe it's a RUclips thing. Like I originally uploaded it wrong, later corrected it and Y.T. shows it to be corrected on My End... but somehow didn't correct it for others. I have no idea. If you have time and you can find it, please let me know where it is exactly... or take a screenshot, etc. You can email a screenshot to me at tuknchuk@gmail.com, if you'd like to. Thanks again for taking the time... I appreciate it. All the Best, ~Chuck

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@@BrassAttack1 Sorry to take so long to get back to you. I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to let me know. This is much worse than I thought... : o I was thinking my error was in the description of the video. Now I got it... and SADLY, I made the same mistake for all of my Roy Haynes videos. So, Now the question is... redo them all just for that or just leave the error in there. WAH !!!! Thanks and all the best to you... 👍

You’re very welcome, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ll do more and more of these when I have time. All the Best to you…

That’s a good question. As far as I know, Tony always used wood tipped sticks. I never heard anything differently. But the truth is, that I really have no idea. I just always assumed that he did. I would guess that someone would have talked about it, & it would be known, if he did. Orn the drum history podcast I think there are some episodes that are dedicated to Tony… and I think one of them goes through his equipment throughout the years. But I don’t remember if they talked about his sticks. His signature sticks in the later years were pretty beefy and wood tipped. But I have no idea what he played when he was young. I wish that I knew, as well.

Someone could easily do their whole doctoral thesis on any one song played by Elvin. Truly inspirational. Oh how I wish I could ask him some questions… I could bother him for weeks…🤪🔨🕺🏽

…exactly

No, it’s not just you. You can hear it louder at 1:51 for a few bars and then again back in strong at 4:10. Before that there are a few individual “chik’s” that’s are pretty clear. I think it must have been that his HH stand wasn’t set at a good angle or his cymbals were getting a bit of suction… or perhaps he really just played it that randomly. That’s a bit harder to imagine. I’m sure he was in full control, and could play it or not at anytime, but the fact that it randomly cuts back out makes me think it was a cymbal or hardware issues… & not Elvin or the mics, etc. I wish we had video of any of these sessions. So great !!!

Yeah, this groove is a doozie, for sure. Just out of curiosity… (& I ask this with all due respect… but of course I don’t know you or your playing, etc.) have you checked out and learned to play the Mozambique groove on the drumset ?? Elvin has MANY variations on his way to play his Jazz-Latin groove… and I certainly don’t claim to have Elvin’s grooves down, but I think Elvin’s Jazz-Latin Groove (which he plays one version of it here) is, in its simplest form, a SWUNG Eighth note version of the Mozambique. It was hard for me to wrap my head around, at 1st, I didn’t recognize it as being the same thing… but I learned it (the normal way) as straight 8th notes first… & then took it bit by bit slowly and figured out what it would sound like as swung 8ths. With swung 8th notes as the basis (built on 8th note triplets) I was then able to hear that he was inserting his standard jazz triplet snare & bass drum comping into this Latin groove. The basic groove (now swung) already gives you his basic starting ride bell pattern & the cross-stick and tom rhythms. What’s left is to learn his variations… of which there are a lot. He plays variations of this groove on so many records. Sometimes it’s more basic… this one is more varied & hard to hear & figure out. But, that’s exactly why I made this video trying to isolate him more. It’s some of the greatest shit ever, IMO.🤩 I apologize if you already knew all that or think I’m mistaken. I’m just trying to be helpful… not insulting. Feel free to msg me more about it, anytime. I love to talk with others that share the same passion as I do. All the best to you.

@@tuknchuk I can for sure play the normal Mozambique, I’ve learned Elvin’s patterns on stuff like Acknowledgement, but I think there’s something about this one being in 3/4 that’s throwing me off. And it’s definitely not an easy groove to practice slowly unlike, again, what he plays on Acknowledgement.