Let’s gooo, this is now a full-time Billy Higgins site. Here he is playing a New Orleans/Poinciana/Vernel Fournier kind of groove, on the Duke Ellington tune The Mystery Song, on Steve Lacy’s record Evidence:
Swing the 8th notes, use a mallet on the toms. Pretty straightforward.
Nice one — Good to have other examples of a ‘Poinciana groove’, given how often bandleaders and arrangers request that feel.