Funny I should just read this post.

I just got a drum kit, being I wanted to return to my youth and get one again. (Was for years a keyboard player after the initial drums, and casual guitarist), but not playing any Jazz.

I was given a tape to view, along with the vintage Rogers kit, and on it was a long section on Buddy Rich! I heard Jazz before, but now,,,,,it is really attracting my senses. WOW,,he's amazingly creative! That music of his bands is being played over and over now,,,,,and I'm LOVING IT!

It's given me a whole different direction to consider,,,and is seemingly making me a better piano player as well. Guess it's the precision which Buddy Rich, and ALL those band members have,,,,with all those specific beats and notes, and creative melodies! I now have gone through Beatles music, general Pop and Rock, of the 60's and 70", to Counntry, to Classical, to Buddy Rich's Jazz,,keeping all of those, and some other genres close at hand. But this Jazz is so epxressive!

LOVE to "try" to play drums along with Buddy Rich!,,,(like keeping up with Einstein). It's just FUN though! Very uplifting! Stimulating! Even with all miss hits!

Now I know why Jazz has always received the "cool" slogan! Very cool, this Jazz is! It's been the backbone to most other music I guess,,,a springboard for other lively music.

Jazz feels like Life's Energy itself, wanting to be known. Hard to get to really know it, but it's "a gas" just trying! Reminds me of the new math we had to take as a kid. Complicated at first, but makes you think!

I think I just edited in Jazz terms! Going back to some similar ideas, but in slighly different descripts! Yeah man!

John


[This message has been edited by dhsongs (edited 12-04-2002).]

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