What a great drummer this guy is- Taste is of the essence,beatiful hands nice sounding drums Gretsch no doubt ,I love watching this guy its like a lesson.
OK - nice cymbal -but a bit dustbin- eeee like ! But John Riley what a master player
Glad to see he is about a bit more recently- so underated with the likes of Steve Smith - Dave Wekel - Peter Erskin -this man really comps beautiful and always his drums sound is first class, Get his book ta...
You should all rush out and buy this recording -wonderful- Cliff was with the Shadows for a long while on keyboards- I have been working with this guy for about nine yrs now on drums -and having not known his backround when we first linked up on a gig - WELL! he just knocked me out -his wonderful...
How easy Blakey makes playing arrangements look, what a great drummer and leader ,most of the east coast jazz icons came through this mans bands,I saw him play twice what a jazz thrill -these days this great USA Jazz dont happen any more -
I must say - everyone mentions Freddie { great } but what a very good drummer -Bill is !
so playing into the groove ;instead of outside of it - it is very difficult to do this -not a technique
thing it is more of waiting and anticipating the gaps exelent T.Pope,