Re: (idm) Red Snapper, Japanese style (Geoff)

From abenn
Sent Sun, Jul 26th 1998, 20:57

Damien Bloodman wrote:


>Well
>
>That is a tricky issue.  Can a live drummer play Drum and Bass style?
>Are Red Snapper D 'n' B?
>
>Having heard Red Snapper play, having seen the likes of Ronnie Size play
>at Manchester+s Met.  I would say that it is possible depending on the
>depth of complexity of the rhythms being played.
>
>There is no doubt in my mind that drum and bass has partly evolved from
>the cross rhythms of early Jazz and Be Bop (to name a few:  Art Blakey*,
>John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Charlie Parker,
>Billy Cobham* and so forth).  The drummers of these particular bands had
>the ability to play rhythms, rolls and bass crashes in places you would
>not expect therefore adding an extra dynamic and groove (also banging a
>continuous 2/4 beat at 145 bpm - does not constitute D 'n+ B).


I had always believed that drum'n'bass was a late 80s/90's thing, but then
one night, a few months back, was listening to Gilles Peterson's show,
where he blew this mistaken idea right out the window, by playing this
track by a jazz outfit from Chicago, (can't remember the name,sorry, was
sooo blown away by it, was ravin to all my flatmates and missed it!), and
this was from the early 70's!  Twas pure, hardcore drum'n'bass, no
mistakin!

but this was hardcore musicians playing, not some sampled loops and it was
the freshest, most fucked up/head blowin stuff you could ever imagine!
Why, you could draw a pure line from these guys right thru to the heart of
Squarepusher!

Respect!

Aless

>D*Style