Baby Dodds - Ulysses Owens, Jr. | 2 Minute Jazz

Ulysses Owens, Jr. shows you how to keep time on the snare using
a technique from one of the great innovators of jazz drums: Baby
Dodds.


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This is Ulysses Owens, Jr. with Two Minute Jazz. We're going to
talk about a guy by the name of Warren "Baby" Dodds. Baby Dodds
was one of the first great jazz drummers that really started out
jazz swing drums. But, because the sound of the drums and jazz
drums had not evolved yet with the ride cymbal, he created
playing time and keeping time with this cool pattern, that comes
out of the New Orleans rhythm on the snare drum.


The cool thing is he's taking a quarter note, a buzz roll, and
he's making that groove, alright?


Also, he had wood blocks. He had some other auxiliary percussion
as a part of his drum kit, and he would make it sound like this.


Then, you get to the swing drum era and with that era you start
playing on the hi-hat.


But none of that would be possible if not for Baby Dodds
introducing this.


Check out Baby Dodds 'cause it all began with him.


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