Depois de ler o texto e, principalmente, ver o vídeo em
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=8720572&blogId=449978633 lembro-me da frase de W. A. Mozart “É muito mais fácil tocar um instrumento depressa que devagar” - é impressão minha ou o gajo espalha-se quando tenta tocar outra coisa que não "grindcore"/ "blast-beat"? ('ouver' p.ex. 'circa' 1 minuto no vídeo) Não deixo de lhe admirar a técnica "open hand"...
Mudando de "notícia", só soube noutro dia que o grande Louie Bellson morreu:
« The Passing of Louie Bellson - A Legend
I was in Toronto the other night and heard about the passing of Louie Bellson while in a cab, on the way to see Cynic play for the first time. Needless to say, it was a strange, and sad moment in my life. Here I was going to hang out with a 15 year drumming influence of mine, and the radio brings the sad news. I sat and thought to myself, wow! One passes as I am on the way to see another... It's a strange life.
Referred to by Duke Ellington as “not only the world’s greatest drummer...(but also) the world’s greatest musician!”, Louie Bellson has expressed himself on drums since age three. At 15, he pioneered the double bass drum set-up. At 17, he triumphed over 40,000 drummers to win the Gene Krupa drumming contest.
He performed on more than 200 albums with such greats as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Louie Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Joe Williams, Wayne Newton and Bellson’s late wife Pearl Bailey.
Composer and author, he wrote more than 1,000 compositions and more than a dozen books on drums and percussion. He received the prestigious American Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994. Also, he is a six-time Grammy nominee. »
em
http://sickdrummermagazine.com (tem um vídeo dum 'solo' de 1957, que também pode ser visto em
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG4Y0N9bi10&feature=player_embedded).
