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He was probably best known for his long tenure with Miles Davis, who praised his ability to “keep the groove going forever.” ...
They speed up a marimba loop until it purred like a tiny engine, and thread it through a mutant-funk jazz drum loop, sampled from krautrock progenitor Amon Düül’s “I Can’t Wait.” ...
Jazz Essentials II features over 2GB of live jazz drum tracks. These are not loops, but rather the full tracks. Each session on the disc focuses on a particular set of grooves and is completely ...
The disk has a total of 3GB library of samples. The disk features over 450 Jazz Drum Loops, 130 Percussion Loops, 160 Single Jazz Drum Samples, 200+ Double Bass samples, 140 Fretless Bass parts ...
Following the success of Organic Warfare (Loop, 2007), Copenhagen-born bassist and Loop Collective ... advantage of the vast textural palette that can be produced from the drum kit. This, combined ...
"He's played music for so long that he can express whatever he wants to on the drums." Wynton Marsalis is managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, whose big band Riley played and ...
“I started on classical percussion when I was around 6, but I was also taking drum set lessons at 6,” Weaver said. “I’m mainly sticking to my jazz drum set now.” He said he joined the ...
My learning began at age ten in school with symphonic percussion before quickly gravitating toward jazz drums. One reason I never became fully immersed in studying tabla is because the traditional ...
The dark, gripping and unpredictable Sundance hit “Whiplash” will keep you as off-kilter as the syncopated jazz drum beat that leads its audience toward the film’s electrifying and surprise ...
While in Boston, she studied briefly with jazz drum great Alan Dawson. The daughter of a classical violinist mother and a jazz-loving father, Blackman Santana began drumming on a toy kit when she ...