Or, you know, Art Blakey, "Drum Suite"— Columbia 1002.
He collaborated with Basie arranger Ernie Wilkins on the innovative Drum Suite, wrote for television and movies - notably for Around The World Of Mike Todd (1968), with Orson Welles narrating, and the celebration of silent comedy Four Unknowns (1969) - and became musical director of the United Artists subsidiary Solid State.
This quietly self-possessed innovator merges and reshuffles the familiar separate elements of conventional jazz – short tunes, long solos, climactic drum breaks – into suite-like extended pieces, but they change in mood and dynamics so much that they feel like contrasting scenes in a play.
The dances — "The Watershed" and three shorter pieces — are about freedom, taking inspiration from the 1960 jazz composition "Freedom Now Suite," by the drummer Max Roach.
The first of many musical devices employed in "The 23 Constellations of Joan Miró," a multimedia suite by the drummer and composer Bobby Previte, is a gentle, wakening trill.
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It's more abstract, fluid and expansive, extending its tentacles into diamond-hard techno and the relatively new sound of drum'n'bass during audaciously long art-rave suites that end up some distance from where they began.
The program includes "Salute to Broadway," a suite from "Porgy and Bess," works for drum and bugle corps and marches galore by Sousa.
In a flamenco suite, Mr. Rivera began a "Farruca" by drumming a cane ominously on the floor.
He sets his material up as suites, and each piece had movement, with drum parts giving way to guitar figures, which gave way to choral sections.
The band racked up an unprecedented $100,000 in studio costs while they painstakingly spliced fragments of live shows, studio takes, drum solos, and recordings of natural sound into collaged suites.
