Avi_drums wrote:Some killer stuff here:
You get the sense this is a guy pushing new ideas, not resting on laurels.
I've never really thought about the connection before, but this is some DeJohnette-flavored stuff. It's interesting to look at this at think back to some older stuff. I think I can see/hear a lot of JDJ in his playing. They share a bouncy-kind of phrasing process that's a bit wider in scope that most of drummers ... they both have large vocabularies and like to play a lot of swunky things. I'd be curious to know if he's ever listed JDJ at an influence.
It took me a LONG time to process JDJ and start to hear some of his genius. I think now, after only 30 years of patient listening, I'm finally getting to the point where I have a taste for him. Maybe I ride the drumming short bus, but it's an acquired taste. I didn't have the same issue with Jojo, but I never had a moment where I felt he was a jazz drummer trying to fake funk. I had to get past that bias with JDJ, which I think I see now was my own disadvantage of seeing him years later, and wasn't paying attention (or alive) when he was innovating.
“Let's try some of my songs.” Dave Grohl, top sign drummer will be fired.