1. Warren "Baby" Dodds
always carried a big candy pacifier
won a grammy last year for his rap tune "Eat Mo Crawfish"
main body of work took place in the 1920s with Louis Armstrong and other New Orleans groups
2. "Big" Sid Catlett
was really only 4 foot 5 inches tall
plays a mobster on the tv show "The Sopranos"
was one of the only swing-era drummers to make the transition to be-bop
3. Gene Krupa is known as ...
"the man who was always late for the gig"
"the man who made the girls swoon"
"the man who made the drums a solo instrument"
4. Lionel Hampton
started out as an engineer on the Chesapeake, Topeka, & The Sante Fe line
has a big house in the Hamptons... complete with concert stage and disco lighting
started out as a drummer before he switched to vibraphone, and his wild drumming and stick twirling remained a feature wherever he appears
5. Panama Francis was
named after the Panama Hat
the designer for the Panama Canal
among the first of the jazz drummers to crossover to rock and rhythm & blues studio work... He appeared on hundreds of early rock records, including a few by Buddy Holly
6. Joe Harris was one of the first drummers to...
add record scratches to be-bop drumming
bop the lead guitar player on the head whenever the guitar player stood in front of him and blocked his view of the audience.
grasp the complexities of be-bop drumming
7. Buddy Rich - Probably his most controversial "vintage" work is on...
"Live From New York... It's Saturday Night Live" starring John Belushi and Gilda Radner
"his 1954 Chevy Pick-up"
"Bird and Diz" from 1950, where Rich is paired with Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Rich hadn't yet embraced be-bop and was an outspoken critic of it at the time...
8. Kenny Clarke
virtually invented the need for artist endorsements by blowing up his drumkit on the tv show "American Bandstand"
virtually invented modern jazz dancing by wearing a pair of black tights & a turtleneck to the gig
virtually invented modern jazz drumming, as the first player to use the ride cymbal for timekeeping and the left hand and right foot for accents, as early as 1937 when he was with the Teddy Hill band
9. Stan Levey was a major figure in what was called...
"catskills jazz" or "the concorde rabinical bop"
"springfield jazz " or "the krusty the clown show"
"west coast jazz" or "the cool school"
10. Joe Morello was a pioneer in
playing odd sound objects (Most notably his use of 5 different sized chinese take-out containers on the tune "Take Five")
the movie "How The West Was Won"
playing odd meters ("Take Five" is still considered the best-selling single jazz recording ever made)
11. Harold Jones was the quintessential big-band drummer with...
big hands to hold his big drumsticks while playing really big drum solos on tympani
H J (hand-written with a big black Sharpie) on his front bass drum head
a crisp, clean sound notable for the high-pitched snare drum crack
12. Philly Joe Jones
played drums on the Cherry Poppin' Daddies album "Zoot Suit Riot"
was named after the cheese steak sandwich
was one of Buddy Rich's favorites.
13. Gene Krupa was so taken with Frankie Dunlop's playing, that he
bought Dunlop tires for all his cars
stood on the table... clapping and shouting "more! more!"
engineered Dunlop's first drum endorsement deal with the Slingerland company
14. Louis Bellson will be recorded in history as the man who first...
set fire to his drumkit
walked on the moon... while playing "Stars Get In Your Eyes"
used two bass drums as a part of the drum kit (in the mid-1940s... the Gretsch drum company was said to be the only outfit that would build Bellson a two-bass setup)
15. "Papa" Joe Jones
is drummer Hilary Jones' father
redefined the concept of a rock drummer. He played 2 and 4 on the bass drum & 1 and 3 on the snare... really loud.
redefined the concept of a drummer. He lightened up on the four-beats-to-the-bar standard of bass drum playing, was possibly the first to use the ride cymbal as the main timekeeping accessory, and did things with the hi-hats that are still being studied today
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