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das von thelonica verlinkte interview ist interessant, vor allem diese passage:
And then this guy came to me and said, „man, you sound great. I’d like you to play a concert with me at Town Hall.“ I said I was workin‘ at the Apollo. He said, „Oh, man. If you can work it in, I want you to play this concert.“ So I said, „OK, what’s your name?“ He said Kenny Dorham. I said, „Oh man, I can’t do this.“ He said, „Yeah, you can do it.“ So I had a couple rehearsals with him and played the concert at Town Hall. It was Kenny Dorham’s band, Freddie Hubbard’s band and Lee Morgan’s band, in one night. Kenny Dorham’s band played first, then all the guys were saying „Who is this drummer?“ They said, „It’s this guy from New Orleans.“ That’s how the jazz guys got a hold of me.
I never played jazz before. Never of that caliber. I met Betty Carter there and George Coleman and McCoy Tyner, all of these guys I met at this one gig. The next thing you know, jazz guys started calling me. I was in Betty Carter’s band with George Coleman and John Hicks and Paul Chambers. Then I was making records for Blue Note with Lou Donaldson and all of these Alligator boogaloo and all these organ records I was makin.‘ Guys were callin‘ me to do these records. They never gave me any music. A few times with Horace Silver, he gave me some music and played it. And he said, „No, that don’t sound right. Throw that page away and play something.“ They would play a song and I would just make up a rhythm to it. If I was a smart dude at that time, I could be rich today [laughter], by just writing out those parts and making them pay for it. But I was a guy who was just very friendly and kind. And kind guys, a lot of times, they take advantage of you.
But I made a lot of records with organ. The organ trend came on the scene and I was makin‘ all these records with Charles Earland and Dr. Lonnie Smith. We have a great history of all of these records that we have out. Now they call it Acid Jazz. But that was the beginning of something that was a trend that was happening. And during this period, a lot of drummers in town was just listenin‘ at what I was doin‘ and copying what I was doin.‘ So it was like a new trend.
wie man so zum jazz kommt…
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