Modern Drummer Issue 455

2017·14.6 MB·English

12 Modern Drummer June 2014

I N T R O D U C I N G
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CONTENTS
CONTENTS Volume 41 • Number 10
Cover and Contents photos by Paul La Raia
FEATURES
100 YEARS OF JAZZ DRUMMING
24 GAVIN WALLACE-AILSWORTH
Recorded jazz is precisely a century old this year.
OF BENT KNEE
MD celebrates the art of swinging folks into bad health.
His Boston-based sextet makes the
most of its aesthetic freedom, creat-
On the Cover ing some of the freshest-sounding
art-rock of recent times.
40 50 CRUCIAL JAZZ
by Ilya Stemkovsky
DRUMMING RECORDINGS
From classic LPs of the golden age of
26 GARY MOFFATT OF 38 SPECIAL
bebop to cutting-edge contemporary
For the past nineteen years he’s held
releases, MD guides you through some
the throne for one of rock’s most en-
of the genre’s most important albums of
during organizations. It hasn’t always
all time—with one or two surprise gems
been easy, but rock ’n’ roll eventually
thrown in for good measure.
rewards its true survivors.
by Rick Long
50 ANTONIO SANCHEZ 60 TUCKER RULE
SOARS BEYOND BIRDMAN
The seasoned basher reunites with
The success of his unique 2014 fi lm Thursday, backs a British boy band,
score blew open the doors of percep- drives the bus for Yellowcard, and
tion for many a curious drummer. His releases a solid new sample library.
latest projects are no less exploratory— by Ben Meyer
or inspiring.
30 JACK DEJOHNETTE
by Jeff Potter 82 HIRED GUN
The drummer—arguably the most potently A new documentary pushes some
unpredictable player of the last half-centu- of the world’s best freelancers—
ry—marks his seventy-fi fth year on planet 56 BUDDY RICH: A TIMELINE including many of our favorite
earth with a recording and tour featuring a In a unique timeline format, we trace drummers—“out of the shadows
bona-fi de jazz supergroup. the high points of Buddy’s historic and into the spotlight.”
by Ken Micallef career—and beyond. by Billy Amendola
LESSONS EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENTS
68 Basics 18 Product Close-Up 8 An Editor’s Overview
Odd Groupings in Four-Bar Phrases Paiste Masters Thin Series Jazz in the 21st Century
Trading Fours With Threes, Fives, 2Box DrumIt Five Module and by Mike Dawson
and Sevens TrigIt Triggers
by Joel Rothman 10 Readers’ Platform
HeadHunters Crossovers
Hybrid Rods What’s Your Favorite Jazz
70 Strictly Technique
Outlaw Drums Heritage Series Drumming Album?
Hybrid Rudimental Ritual
Variations on a Classic Method Snares 12 Out Now
by Mike Alfi eri
66 Gearing Up The War on Drugs’ Charlie Hall
72 Style and Analysis Fishbone’s Philip “Fish” Fisher 13 On Tour
“Walkin’”
Tony Williams’ Technique, Language, and 80 New and Notable Cheap Trick’s Daxx Nielsen
Innovations
14 News
by Ruben Bellavia
74 Jazz Drummer’s Workshop WIN! 16 Must-Have Gear
Tony Williams’ Concepts A Yamaha DTX760K electronic drumset Tammy Glover of Thorcraft Cobra
Developing Tension and Release worth $3,499!
84 Showcase
by Matt Fisher Page 87
featuring Drum Market
76 Rock Perspectives
88 Critique
A New Perspective
Displacing Four-Over-Three Polyrhythms Ignacio Berroa, the Contortionist,
by Aaron Edgar Dead Cross, and more
78 Concepts 92 Encore
Visualize Yes’s Close to the Edge
Get Set Up for Success
Before You Hit the Stage 94 Backbeats
by Mark Schulman The 2017 Chicago Drum Show
96 Kit of the Month
Custom-Shop Chops

AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW
AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW
Jazz in the 21st Century Founder
Ronald Spagnardi
1943–2003
Publisher/CEO Senior Art Director
Many scholars argue that jazz, which by Isabel Spagnardi Scott G. Bienstock
was fi rst documented on record Lei
one hundred years ago by the Original hn Senior Vice President Editorial Director
o
J Lori Spagnardi Adam J. Budofsky
Dixieland Jazz Band, is America’s great-
est musical gift to the world. I couldn’t
Vice President Managing Editor
agree more. I mean, what other art form Kevin W. Kearns Michael Dawson
encapsulates the messy, diverse mix
of cultures that makes up our modern Associate Publisher Associate Editor
Tracy A. Kearns Willie Rose
society better than this innovative,
expressive, and ever-evolving genre?
Advertising Director Editor at Large
Within jazz, you’ll fi nd European classi- Bob Berenson Billy Amendola
cal chord progressions and military-style
instrumentation, African traditions Advertising Assistant Business and
LaShanda Gibson Content Development
of improvisation and polyrhythmic
Miguel Monroy
layering, the “Spanish tinge” (i.e., clave)
of Cuban folkloric dances, and the spiritual, heartfelt infl ections of call- The MD Pro Panel: Chris Adler, Gregg Bissonette, Jason Bittner, Will Calhoun,
and-response fi eld songs created by African-Americans in the late 1800s. Terri Lyne Carrington, Matt Chamberlain, Jeff Davis, Peter Erskine, Bob Gatzen,
Daniel Glass, Benny Greb, Matt Halpern, Horacio Hernandez, Gerald Heyward,
On paper, those elements shouldn’t gel. And yet they do—beautifully.
Taku Hirano, Susie Ibarra, Jim Keltner, Pat Mastelotto, Allison Miller, Rod Morgenstein,
From a drumming perspective, there are countless benefi ts to Chris Pennie, Stephen Perkins, Dafnis Prieto, Rich Redmond, Brian Reitzell, Jim Riley,
studying jazz, even if you never intend to play it in its traditional form. Antonio Sanchez, Gil Sharone, Chad Smith, Steve Smith, Todd Sucherman, Billy Ward,
Kenny Washington, Paul Wertico
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