We have just lost a few more heavyweights, like Mauricio Kagel (see Soho), Richard Sudhalter (see Terry Teachout) and Earl Palmer (see LA Times).
In TBP, we feel the lost of E. Palmer the deepest. What a superb groove.
Sorry if this is too obvious, but check this video out (especially before the band comes in). The four limbs are in different places in the beat: this is the academy of rhythm par excellence.
(In this excerpt, “Fess” is Professor Longhair, another celebrated NOLA musician.)
I love the unrepentantly enormous bass drum in the photo of the elderly Earl Palmer above. We want to hear it as well as feel it, baby!
