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2011

Thursday, 8/25/11

Does anyone have more fun than drummers?

Sonny Rollins/Don Cherry Quartet (SR, tenor saxophone; DC, trumpet; Henry Grimes, bass; Billy Higgins, drums), “52nd Street Theme” (T. Monk), live (TV broadcast), Rome, 1962

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More Sonny Rollins? Here. And here. And here. And here. And here.

More Don Cherry? Here. And here.

More Billy Higgins? Here.

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lagniappe

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

—Billy Higgins

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2011

Wednesday, 8/24/11

serendipity

If God wanted us only to hear what we’ve heard before, He wouldn’t have made radio.

Glasser, “Treasury of We,” Carriage House Studios (Stamford, Connecticut)
8/22/11, Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture, WFMU-FM (Monday, 8-9 p.m. [EST])

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