To be honest I have never been really into the big jazz drummers, The Buddy Riches etc. Or even the big name today such as Gadd, Peart etc.
However....
Joe Morello is simply fantastic!
To be honest I have never been really into the big jazz drummers, The Buddy Riches etc. Or even the big name today such as Gadd, Peart etc.
However....
Joe Morello is simply fantastic!
Dustin Lee Burgess
Northfleet, England
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+1. The Master, imho.
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That's the understatement of the year.Joe Morello is simply fantastic!
Gotta love it when he adjusts his glasses(in the video) and continues his one-handed roll!
Morello was a great drummer. His "Far More Drums" blew me away when I was a kid.
Terrible disappointment when I got to meet him. He used to teach at Dorn&Kirshners in Jersey.
Maybe he was having a bad day, but, he was about as disinterested in playing or teaching that day as anyone I have ever seen, and I was sent there by Marian McPartland.
I'm sure a few on here have heard this before , but the story goes that Joe once broke a tom head one night during a solo and rectified the problem without stopping playing . Yep , his left hand and feet continued the solo whilst he changed the head with his right hand .
I'm not saying it's impossible, just difficult.
Sometimes when I practice, I'll have a cup of coffee in my right hand, and just practice with my left hand and the BD.
I'm putting new heads on my drums in the next couple of days. Maybe for the hell of it, I'll try changing the head while playing. Do you know which head it was?
Joe Morello is one drummer who influenced me a lot. Especially his 5/4 playing. Ever since Dave Brubeck came out with "Take Five", 5/4 has been something to strive for and master for some drummers. I have been working on it myself. Paul Desmond (Brubeck's alto sax player) wrot "Take Five" for Joe Morello so he would have his "own" drum solo. No one expected it to become as popular as it did, but now it is one of the most famous jazz songs out there.
This is "Take Five" with Joe Morello.
One of my favourite solos! So melodic, it' never gets old. That man oozes class, technique, and musicality.
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'Take 5' was one of my earliest exposures to the world of odd-times (another thing was the fact that there'd always been some sort of ethnic music being played around our house or others). Of course, it took a heck of a while before I could somewhat play swing in odd times, but never as good as what Joe Morello could do. "Time Out" is a must-have album. (By sheer coincidence, it sits right next to my Bill Bruford CD's on the shelf here, and Bruford himself has often said that listening to Morello was what also got him into odd-meters. Brubeck and Bruford....ha, who would have known?)
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I don't particularly like his glasses, but he is killer on the kit.
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As previoously mentioned I have never been into they whole Jazz drummer thing but having watched bits on You Tube of Morello, Rich, Grupa ect, Morello is the one who spoke to me most.
Dustin Lee Burgess
Northfleet, England
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Still got the dvd where he teaches about rebound, fulcrum, and other introductory concepts along with other greats like Paice, Baker, and Appice. Phenominal player in his time, much of his stuff is still being practiced and inspiring future generations of bands. A few interesting things about him are his use of odd time signatures, partial vision, appeared on over 120 albums. Strangely he died at age 82 of mysterious causes in Irvington, New Jersey.
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Not much mysterious about dying at 82, I'd have thought..?
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Dad3353 (Douglas...)
I own 'Master Studies' by Joe Morello. Really good rudiments book. Top drummer too.
I read an interview with Iron Maiderns Nicko McBrain today who cites Morello as his insperation for taking up the drums..
Dustin Lee Burgess
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I attended a clinic Morello held about 2 1/2 yrs before his death.
He jammed one of his fingers in a garage door the day before.
Well, he held one of his sticks between the index and middle finger of his right hand and, well..............................
he had our jaws droppin
what a phenomenal drummer still
I'm not worthy!!!! Joe Morello is a drum God legend!
i've never watched any jazz drummers.
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