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Thursday, January 7, 2010

The Greatest Drum Battle of ALL Time



Today, from some concert footage originally aired in the UK comes a drum battle of epic proportions.

Here Elvin Jones, Max Roach and Art Blakey take the stage in one of the heaviest displays of cooperative jazz drumming I've ever seen:







I don't know about you, but if I was ever playing the drums and had Elvin Jones looking over my shoulder, I might be just a tad intimidated ! Just sayin'...

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