Sunny Murray, Elvin Jones & Art Blakey 1968

[Helslinky]

E  L V I N .

[reverendbryan]

Phew! What a work out. All three of these cats are phenomenal!!!! I see this as three generations in the evolution of this music; bop, post bop/modern and post modern/free. Happily for me, I like all three.

[mclovindrumman]

Pure excellence from all three, love it.

[Bringerofnoodles]

I enjoy all three styles, none a favorite over the other.

[Bosphorus92]

what the fuck is sunny doing at the end! atr and elvin are mad into each others shit, and sunny just seems to be out of it!

[stokaskas]

2:34 yea hit it good :D

[kwakky]

i wonder whose idea it was to put sunny on this bill. pretty weird.

[FormerlyMrBean667]

BLAST BEAT!!!!!

[OldSteamer]

damnit elvin starts always great but ends shitty..

[KOKOYAMS]

@OldSteamer he is drunk on this sessions. Art B always Scared Elvin to death!

[normloman]

3 of the best jazz drummers, and 3 that have most influence my playing. Thanks for the video!

[KOKOYAMS]

Art Blakey has always been a Hero not only as musician but as person too.

Elvin J is awake here . one can have a short glimps of his mastership

[tolvispelvis]

I think art blakey is the hero here.

[soduno]

I realy don't like Sonny that much, elvin is my hero!!!

[Gretchluver1]

I agree. Sunny's performance here is one of the worst I've ever heard IMHO. Maybe I just don't get it. Elvin and Art are as superb as ever!

[eldorado8888]

Sonny's style is "something else"

[BDWong]

Three generations of master drummers making a joyful noise. I was smiling ear to ear the whole time this played. Thinking? Feeling?  All of the above and more from each player, 100%. A magic moment in my never so humble opinion.

[thirdshift47]

You can almost witness a primal,expressionistic descent from Elvin,down to Art,down to Sunny.Lovely.

[PeanutButterMan3]

Elvin is pure magic here

[jetfreak4]

These guys are some of the best that have ever been and ever will be. No rock drummer compares to this. We likely will not see guys like Art Blakey or Elvin Jones for a LOOONNNNG time to come.

[dtegg91]

These guys were at the frontier of modern drumming. If anyone showed up on the scene today playing like Art Blakey, they'd probably get criticized that they have no dynamics and no groove, or that there are "too many fills."

It's sad to say, but drummers are beginning to lose the "feeling" of drums, and it's being replaced by this technical garbage.

This instrument is about feel, not about how fast you can playing your inverse swiss army triplets.

[jetfreak4]

Fills and groove IMO make a good drummer. And this style works just fine for me. Art Blakey, and Elvin Jones had it all. Sonny Murray is quite impressive too. THese three are guys I'm pretty sure I'll never touch as a drummer. These is some of the most complex drumming I've heard to date. Makes Toad and Moby Dick look like pieces of cake, and those are fantastic solos.

[eluxoso]

@dtegg91 Interesting comment. Solo drums are rarely nice to hear anyway. Drummers become self indulgent quickly. Exceptions are Chico Hamilton's "The 3 faces of Chico" and a few others like Max Roach's "Drums also waltz" or Joe Morello's "Far more drums".

[davidjnes]

My take on this is that Sonny Murray's free form playing is all emotion without any structure, no thought involved. Art was just showing off- he can be a very interesting player when he's relaxed. But I've never heard Elvin when he wasn't thinking, forming, going somewhere, even if sometimes he didn't make it, he wasn't just trying to make an impression.

[edcerc]

no thought involved? He is feeling the rhythm from every possible angle.

[davidjnes]

Yes, he is obviously feeling a lot. and I'm not saying that he is not an intelligent musician. In his last year or so, John Coltrane played some highly emotional sheets of sound stuff, always pushing the parameters. It was formless, chaotic, and ugly. But it was the entirely logical progression of a man exploring every possible angle.

[edcerc]

I disagree.  There was always stucture involved and all the musicians knew what was going to happen for the most part. As far as ugly goes, I think coltranes late period was some of the most beautiful music ever released. His sound and his playing was constanly getting better.

[grandpascorpion]

I had no idea Desmond Tutu played the drums

[madmexart]

dashikis rule

[simasuma]

all three= BADASS

[brownereclues]

who the first drummer

[rudeass]

Elvin's playing was far more musical than murray's or blakey's

[zoomare]

I don't like Art Blakey's playing at all.

[jackie83413]

how can you not like that? it's monumental!

[madchops82]

what the hell is sonny murray playing?

I never liked that stuff

[mothermoore]

Saw Sonny play the pyrmid club NYC around 1980- Nice dude-smoked a dube with him after the show-Ha HA