Book of Intros – CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!

Mel Lewis intro – One for Pat

June 17, 2020
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I’m just taunting myself now— I’ve got this book of intros sitting around, almost completed, and I keep finding new things that should probably go in it, but I don’t have the nerve to open […]

From the zone: Al Foster intro

April 9, 2020
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Hey, it looks like everyone but me is getting a lot writing done right now. I have a couple more of these “from the zone” items to share— a series where people send in their […]

11 Buddy intros

March 11, 2018
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This is pretty interesting: Buddy Rich playing a drum intro on eleven takes of the same tune: Leap Frog, released on The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve box set. This is an actually an excerpt […]

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