Al Foster

[weckl-x]

Been checking him out recently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0POtYYOOkg

YOWZA!

Al Foster, master drummer, has been a major innovator in the world of jazz for several decades. As a member of the Miles Davis band for thirteen years, Foster's contribution to Davis' music is articulated by Davis himself in his 1989 autobiography, Miles: The Autobiography, where Davis describes the first time he heard Foster play live in 1972 at the Cellar Club on 95th Street in Manhattan: 'He [Foster] knocked me out because he had such a groove and he would just lay it right in there. That was the kind of thing I was looking for. AI could set it up for everybody else to play off and just keep the groove going forever."

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Al_Foster.html

Some of you might be shocked at his cymbal angles :lol:

Image from http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Al_Foster.html

 

[smildrumez]

BATMAN!!!!! :lol:

 

[RudimentalDrummer]

Thks Weckl...love it !

 

[plainsman]

niceeeee... notice other drummers like ndugu and johnny yoshinaga using this sorta ride cymbal angle too... hmm, wonder if al the first 8O ?