Monthly Archives: March 2023

Max Roach on Hollywood Drums?

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: My earlier post focusing on Max Roach playing Meazzi Hollywood Tronicdrums prompted one reader to ask if Max Roach had ever made albums using Hollywood drums. The friend who gave me Max’s “For Big Sid” from the 1977 … Continue reading →

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Roy Haynes – Musical, Inventive

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This grainy ad photo of Gary Burton’s innovative jazz/rock fusion band includes the forever evolving drum great Roy Haynes on a beautiful four-piece Ludwig drum set. This version of the Gary Burton Quartet recorded the groundbreaking album, Duster. … Continue reading →

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Max Roach Plays Tronicdrums

Posted on March 5, 2023 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This 1968 full-page advertisement shows Max Roach behind Meazzi Hollywood Tronicdrums. With the gift of hindsight, we know Tronicdrums did not make “other drum sets obsolete.” But they are pioneers in the history of electronic drums. We have … Continue reading →

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Paul Butterfield – End of an Era

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Musician/bandleader Paul Butterfield was one of my musical heroes during my high school years. Starting with his East-West album, which was the Butterfield Blues Band’s second album, my high school music friends and I absorbed Butterfield’s albums through … Continue reading →

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Russ Kunkel and Leland Sklar

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Hats off to the Drum Channel for their three-part series interview with one of pop music’s exemplary drums-bass partnerships: Russ Kunkel and Leland Sklar. The fourth video here is the trailer to a documentary, “The Immediate Family,” about … Continue reading →

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