CYMBALISTIC: New Holy Grails are in! My stock was getting pretty depleted after a wild couple of weeks of sales. I got some big thin jazz cymbals, if anybody needs a new main axe— though one (both?) of the 22s has already been claimed.
That one reminds me of Max Roach’s cymbal on this Charlie Parker track, which I shared awhile back. Max may be playing a 20, but it’s a very similar sound:
I also got video of the patinated Janovar crash-ride. The Janovar series are inspired by a 1960s European B8 line that was revived in recent years. We put a heavy patina on it, with green highlights, and it’s kind of wild, a great contrasting sound to the Holy Grails:
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