Hamid Drake: S/D

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Surprised there's never been a thread. I've been a fan a long time, and lately I've been loving this performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD6FH_Dlqn8

Which ones y'all got?

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 11 November 2018 04:22 (five years ago) link

Everything by the William Parker Quartet (Rob Brown on alto sax, Lewis "Flip" Barnes on trumpet, Parker on bass, Drake on drums) and associated ensembles is great.
Peter Brötzmann's Die Like A Dog (Toshinori Kondo on trumpet, Brötzmann on various reeds, Parker on bass, Drake on drums) is also excellent; I particularly recommend the two volumes of Little Birds Have Fast Hearts. I just found out recently that Brötzmann actually introduced Parker to Drake, which surprised me.
I like a lot of Drake's work with Fred Anderson, particularly the Eremite album Two Days In April (with Kidd Jordan and Parker) and the Thrill Jockey album From the River to the Ocean with Jeff Parker on guitar, Harrison Bankhead on cello, piano, and bass, and Josh Abrams on bass and guimbri.

grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 11 November 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link

I mostly know him from the Fred Anderson records, the title of this one is accurate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9i4HTzISF0

The cover of Back Together Again looks familiar, I'll have to relisten to that. I love it when he plays the frame drum. He was in town recently, I should have gone.

change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link


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