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October 2019 Issue – Volume 43 • Number 10

Santana Africa Speaks CINDY BLACKMAN SANTANA and KARL PERAZZO shine on an exhilarating new release from one of music’s truly timeless bands. Drummer Cindy Blackman Santana’s call and response with conguero Karl Perazzo sets the tone for the heightened rhythmic interplay to follow on Africa Speaks. The versatile drummer gives her toms a workout on “Batonga,” leaning into the snare to craft a hybrid second-line groove as well, and, as “Oye Este Mi Canto” shifts from 6/8 to 4/4 funk-rock, she aggressively accents along with the leader’s searing guitar. With Perrazo keeping time on bongo, she fills the gaps with creativity and intent, capping the tune with crisp single strokes. The straight-up-and-swinging rock groove on “Yo Me Lo Merezco” bends into dancehall turf on an epic out-vamp, while the slamming pocket on “Los Invisibles” and jam on “Blue Skies” are as raw as Santana tracks recorded half a century earlier. […]
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Articles in October 2019

1969: The Shock of the New

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Paiste 2002

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Bruce Rowland

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Theme for an “Imaginary” Drummer

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Zimbabwean “Tuku” Music

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JD Beck

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Remembering Hal Blaine

He helped pave the way for every great studio musician who came out of L.A., and his influence extends to this very day.

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A Restored Gretsch Steal

This beautifully restored vintage project was from older Gretsch shells to create a road-worn-looking vintage kit that has that oft-referred-to “Great Gretsch Sound.”

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George Way Drums

Ronn Dunnett acquired the rights to the brand and set out to revive the company by building and expanding upon the innovations that Way created many years ago.

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Tony Williams at a Jazz Crossroads

During his years with Miles Davis, beginning in 1963 at age seventeen, Tony Williams radically changed jazz drumming.

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Sam Durkes on Ezra Furman’s Twelve Nudes

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Inverted Paradiddle-Diddles

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The Bailey Method

The Bailey Method is longtime touring and session drummer Dan Bailey’s first opus in the world of online education.

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The 5/4 Half-Time Shuffle

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