Thursday, May 10, 2018

Elvin Jones "A Night In Tunisia"


To preface this post, some ideas from Jazz Video Guy, (Bret Primack), on Elvin Jones as a drummer.

Elvin Jones - A Night in Tunisia featuring Joey DeFrancesco on organ. Elvin was a force of nature. Born in 1927 to a musical family in Pontiac, Michigan, Elvin Jones was among a handful of players who changed the definition of how a drummer is meant to function in his seismic five-year stint with the John Coltrane Quartet. An impeccable timekeeper with tremendous delicacy, Jones is best remembered for pushing Coltrane into the stratosphere with his elemental power, dispersing and displacing the beat among all four limbs. "There is nothing new about timekeeping, it's just that some people can keep better time than others," Jones told Down Beat in 1977. "Some people are more sensitive to rhythmic pulses, and the more sensitive you are, the more you can utilize the subtleties of timekeeping." The early hard-rock drummers that he influenced – Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell, John Bonham – would surely agree.

The video actually comes from another source, YouTube user ALEXEY0678.  The trio features Elvin Jones on drums, along with Bireli Lagrene on guitar, and Joey DeFrancesco on Hammond organ.  The concert was recorded in 1999 at Marciac Sweet. 

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