“I always resented the
role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.” --Max
Roach
“ . . . a candidate
then came to the land of the Shamanesses . . . He heard voices: ‘It
has been decided that you shall have a drum (that is, a body of a drum)
from the branches of this tree.’ . . . The Lord of the Tree called
to him: ‘My branch has just fallen; take it and make a drum of
it that will serve you all your life.’ The branch had three forks,
and the Lord of the Tree bade him make three drums from it, to be kept
by three women, each drum being for a special ceremony—the first
for shamanizing women in childbirth, the second for curing the sick,
the third for finding men lost in the snow.”
Blip
daba boom shap a bam womp dit dabadaba voom tick tick tap shaba shaba
ca bop casam bop be do bloop titty boom titty titty crash
Some
Other Time
Some
Other Time is a music/video piece of various still images from the Chicago
Daily News archive on American Memories… photographed from 1902
to 1933. The images are animated and set to jazz piano music of the same
title.