> - violin)? It officially comes out tomorrow and boy oh boy am I excited
> about it...
I do not have any slightest negative remark towards KW (or BP) drumming. I just think that the drummers i mentioned, IMHO, add something special. They are inside of music, i would say (well i hope it can mean something;-).
But maybe it is a queastion of knowing musician's style, knowing the way he sees music. When we listen to a musician we do know, we can't dig all that he does, generally. I do not know much KW's playing. But the cd you write about seems interesting. Any possibilty of buing it online from an european store?
> I'm not sure if you were expecting to hear Joey play with this group, but
> as I understand it, Ben is the only drummer in this band (he also subs for
> Joey in DD's sextet).
DD told me after the warsaw show that on the cd from which those tunes are taken there's JB on drums. As i understand, it's out with BP, so maybe i misunderstood him.
>I saw the quartet at the Texaco Jazzfest last month
> - absolutely killing. I honestly thought DD was maybe the weakest link
> in this band (I don't say this to speak poorly of Dave, but to emphasize
> how top-notch everyone else was). Ben was swinging so hard I thought he
> was going to fracture my skull, James Genus was holding everything
> together with great bass playing and his big mega-fat tone, and Chris
> Potter was soloing off in the stratosphere somewhere. Dave played great
> as well, though he seemed kind of looped or something...as he and the band
> made their way to the stage through the audience, he sat down in a chair
> next to me (I was in the front row) and said to no one in particular
> "Yay! The band's here!" Maybe the pressure's getting to him...
The show DD gave in warsaw was also quite incredible, but i had an impression that they were a little bit tired - this was the last show of the european tour. James Genus was incredible. He's a monster :-)
