Go read this post about Jon Christiansen at Four on the Floor– I haven’t even had a chance to read it yet, but it doesn’t matter. One of the great facilitators in drumming, I think of Christiansen as kind the Billy Higgins of the 70’s, for his supportive, relatively egoless playing, and beautiful light sound. He also epitomizes the ECM style and sound.
Here’s one of my transcriptions of his playing, Long As You Know You’re Living Yours, from Keith Jarrett’s Belonging.
They have a bunch of clips of him, but here he is playing with Michael Brecker in the ’80’s:
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