In an effort to make sure I keep posting stuff and writing, I'm going to try to post a little video or audio clip of some of my favorite drummers, one a day if at all possible (on weekends all bets are off, but you never know).
So let's get going with the man behind the kit for Thelonious Monk: Frankie Dunlop. Though Dunlop also played with Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Lionel Hampton, Maynard Ferguson, and by the time he retired in 1984 he'd played on about 100 or more albums. Check out this solo from a Monk set in Belgium, would have been sometime between 1960-64 I think:
So awesomely musical, and tells a solid story in that solo. And don't you get the impression, watching him play with such joy, that he's just a genuinely nice and approachable guy?
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