The great jazz drummer Ed Thigpen died at his home in Copenhagen recently. He had worked with, as they say, nearly everybody who was anybody in jazz, particularly many who were prominent in the fifties and sixties. John Coltrane, Art Farmer, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Zoot Sims, Dinah Washington, Teddy Wilson, Ben Webster, and Dexter Gordon were among those who profited from his taste. Here he is in 1958, explaining, then demonstrating, his technique.
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