- Description
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See Also:
- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (biography)
- "Baby" Laurence Jackson (biography)
- Eddie Rector (biography)
- Pete Nugent (biography)
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Papa Jo Jones, The Drums / Papa Jo Jones [sound recording]
- Title
- Papa Jo Jones, The Drums [Sound Recording]
- Performers
- Jones, Papa Jo
- Nugent, Pete
- Rector, Eddie
- Baby Laurence
- Robinson, Bill "Bojangles"
- Published/Created
- 1973
- Genre
- Sound Recording
- Abstract
- sound recording 1973
two sound discs
Jo Jones, drums
Program notes by Hughes Panassie in French and English;
Papa Jo Jones (October 11, 1911- September 3, 1985) born Jonathon Jones in Chicago, Ill. where he learned to play several instruments, including saxophone, piano and drums. He worked as a drummer and tap dancer at carnival shows until joining Walter Page's band, the Blue Devils in Oklahoma City in the late 1920s. He later joined Count Basie's band in 1933. Split off from the band in the late 1940s and created an image for himself. He was one of the first drummers to promote the brushes on drums and shifting the role of timekeeping from the bass drum to the hi-hat cymbal. Regarded as the premier jazz drummer of the Swing era, and the transitional figure between classic and modern jazz drumming.
contents:
Drum solo no. 1 (2:55)Basics
Effects (6:34)
Rudiments. Drum roll, flams, single stroke (5:02)
Rim shots; Tom Tom (5:21)
Drummers that I met: Baby Dodds (2:30)
Josh (1:04); Unnamed drummer from St. Louis (1:59)
Alvin Burroughs; Gene Krupa (5:57); Sid Catlett 1:15);...
Dancers That I met (1:32)
Pete Nugent (1:57)
Eddie Rector (3:12)
Baby Laurence (3:12)
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (2:53) - Source
- New York Public Library: CATNYP: Dance Collection: Tap Dancing. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015