Here’s Jake Hanna trading fours with Duke Jordan, on Jordan’s album Live Live Live— a Japanese import release from the late 90s. This is a pretty ordinary club date; Hanna was almost 70 and Duke was almost 80, so they’re not tearing the place down. His execution is impeccable.
I’ve never listened to a lot of Hanna— he just didn’t happen to be on the records I listened to. His style is kind of unusual to my ear— he sounds a little older than he is, like most of his development happened before modern playing was fully formed. The trading choruses start at 6:15. He starts with brushes and switches to sticks.
Mark in your own stickings on the triplet passages— there will certainly be a lot of doubles. He uses some different articulations on the rolls, drags, and ruffs— it’s worth listening carefully to that.
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