"Billy (Hart) is playing a drum set and I'm playing different percussion instruments including a drum set and timbales. Randy Brecker playing on his "wah wah" trumpet was really something ...
That tune was Hal Galper's composition and it's basically a ballad in 11/4 underneath. It was really slow and the chords move really slow and the rhythm is moving fast beneath it. I think it's a bar of 5 and a bar of 4. Billy's holding it down and I'm basically trying to stretch beyond the time signature into a pure pygmy rhythm. I'm playing the timbales, I'm playing the sides.
Billy and I loved doing that record together because we're such good friends. He's like a brother to me.
"I made that record ("Windows") with Jack (Wilkins) and every guitar player would come up to me and ask if I was playing on that. It was just like the record I made with Tom Waits (Nighthawks @ the Diner). All of a sudden all these Tom Waits fans were coming up to me and saying, "weren't you the drummer that played with Tom?"
When I made that record with Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett all the drummers in Europe came up to me and told me how much they loved that record."
That tune was Hal Galper's composition and it's basically a ballad in 11/4 underneath. It was really slow and the chords move really slow and the rhythm is moving fast beneath it. I think it's a bar of 5 and a bar of 4. Billy's holding it down and I'm basically trying to stretch beyond the time signature into a pure pygmy rhythm. I'm playing the timbales, I'm playing the sides.
Billy and I loved doing that record together because we're such good friends. He's like a brother to me.
"I made that record ("Windows") with Jack (Wilkins) and every guitar player would come up to me and ask if I was playing on that. It was just like the record I made with Tom Waits (Nighthawks @ the Diner). All of a sudden all these Tom Waits fans were coming up to me and saying, "weren't you the drummer that played with Tom?"
When I made that record with Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett all the drummers in Europe came up to me and told me how much they loved that record."
*excerpt of my radio interview with BG from December 2012
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