Before I start today’s article, an admission. When I was first planning ‘Drums In The Twenties’, one concern was that I didn’t want it to become solely an outlet for thinly-disguised bragging about vintage drum gear – something by which the internet is already well served. Speaking honestly, I don’t really have that much interest … Continue reading Instruments #3: The ‘Snapper’-style Snare Drum, early 1920s
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Library #4: The First Recorded Drum Solo in Jazz History*
Notated on the page in black and white, it looks innocuous enough. It consists of a very small unit of musical time - just one chorus of a thirty-two-bar tune (not a blues, despite the title) - and of those, it's the content of just nine bars which are important to us. But vitally important … Continue reading Library #4: The First Recorded Drum Solo in Jazz History*