Patrice: I know you have a different point of view when it come to rock drummers :) But if I understand your note correctly you saw a quartet with trumpet and bass in Portland. There were two other musicians along to pick up the slack and give the music a different lilt. At FIMAV it was only the two of them with the drummer controlling the presentation. Ken --- "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com> wrote:
But Ken, we know that you don't really like rock drummers :-).
I saw the band in Portland and the fact that the drummer was not a regular jazz/improv drummer is what made the show different (and prevented me from falling asleep since I find regular jazz/improv quartets more and more predictable).
Now I am willing to accept that in this contect the lyrical side of Satoko was lost. But this project has a different objective than your usual jazz/improv quartet, no? If she hired Yoshida, it was not to get Elvin or Joey behind the kit.
Patrice.
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