Philly Joe Jones

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Uploaded by on Mar 13, 2009

Philly Joe Jones, drummer for Miles Davis in his First Great Quintet, in 1978, doing what he does best.

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  • I studied with Philly Joe in the 70s for several years( I was a teenager). He took me thru the Wilcoxin swing solos book. I hear some of this in his solo. Some quotes I remember from him: " if you drop a stick pick another one up and throw it" (like you intended to throw the first one). "White Pearl drums look magestic under the lights" "Ringo was more of a businessman than a drummer"

  • @evets530

    Please be aware that you are condemning Philly Joe Jones for something someone else said he said.

    And talk about "condescending". You call Philly Joe Jones a "good drummer".

    That's like calling Albert Einstein "a bright guy".

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  • How did philly joe even live this long? I though he had a terrible heroin problem. Miles talks about in his autobiography about how he had to leave stage mid-song to throw up because he was going thru withdraw

  • Philly Joe on a Premier kit . . . Mr Swing playing a British percussion icon, love it!

  • MAN...YA JUST KNEW HIS SOUND! LOVE HIM!

  • @hlondon59

    you are very lucky for have to know him!!!

  • great player , great friend ! !

  • @Jazzanswer hahahahhaahahahah!!!!

  • so slick

  • @evets530 I gotta check him out! I am totally into Ari Hoenig ight now, that guy is just plain outrageous!

  • @ZackPomerleau Well, I've heard The Shags, and no, nothing memorable comes to mind. A current fav is Kurt Reil of The Grip Weeds, very Keith Moon but cleaner. He also sings many of their songs, which are a near perfect meld of Brit Invasion Psyche power pop. Early Kinks meet The Who, The Beatles and The Byrds.

  • @evets530 Except the girl from The Shags! I don't think she recorded much of interest!!!

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