I always loved this song by Black Sabbath. I made a post of facebook recently about their 1970 album Paranoid. I think it a great. Fairies Wear Boots is my second favorite Sabbath song, right behind War Pigs. The grooves on those songs are no joke. This group? A friend posted this video in a…
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Yeah…he is the greatest drummer to ever walk the face of the earth. I almost forgot, then I ran across this again:
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Kenny Clarke performs at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968. He spent the second half of his career in Europe. JazzSign/Lebrecht Music & Arts/Corbis It doesn’t take an expert to identify this sound as a jazz rhythm: Musicians call it “spang-a-lang,” for obvious phonetic reasons, and it’s so synonymous with jazz, it no longer occurs…
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