Voici une belle batterie de années 20 jouées par Kaiser Marshall dans l'orchestre de Fletcher Henderson, l'un de premiers musicien noir de JAZZ américain reconnu aux US !
Remerciements à la PAS ( Percussion Arts Society ) et je vous engage vivement à visiter leur site et entre autre leur musée virtuel...
C'est là :
http://www.pas.org/Museum/ItemTOC.cfm
Fletcher Henderson’s Bass Drum Kit
C'est vrai que j'aurai aimé voire la caisse claire !
Fletcher Henderson’s Bass Drum Kit
Donated by Charlie Benton (2006-01-03)
Fletcher Henderson (1898–1952) was one of the most influential pianists, band leaders, and arrangers in the history of jazz. He was the most commercially successful African-American musician during the 1920s, especially as a leader of his own orchestra in both recording and live performances. His arrangements provided the basis for what was to become known as “swing” music in regard to instrumentation, form, and compositional principles between soloists, sections, and the overall ensemble.
Active primarily in New York when not touring, his band featured such notable musicians as Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Don Redman, and Fletcher’s brother, Horace. In 1939, Henderson ceased operation of his own band and joined Benny Goodman’s big band as pianist and chief arranger. This was the first time a black musician was hired to perform with a white band.
This Bass Drum Kit was purchased from Fletcher’s brother, Horace Henderson, who played piano as well as arranged for Fletcher’s band. It includes a 14 x 28 1920s-era Ludwig & Ludwig bass drum with interior lighting and a mountain-with-lake scene painted on the front calfskin head. It features a 14-inch Chinese cymbal, a 1924 Ludwig & Ludwig bass drum pedal with cymbal striker attachment, and several accessories, including castanets, woodblocks, a snare drum stand, and miscellaneous sticks, brushes, and mallets.
It was played by Kaiser Marshall, who was Henderson’s drummer during the early 1920s, and possibly by later drummers in Henderson’s band. The Chinese tom-tom in the photograph is not original to the set, but is matched to it for display purposes. This tom (1996-01-05) was donated by Terry Clarke.
—Otice Sircy, PAS Museum Curator and Librarian and James A. Strain, PAS Historian
et là une autre belle curiosité du début de la batterie JAZZ...
La batterie de Roy C. Knapp entre professeurs de
Gene Krupa, Dave Tough, George Wettling, Baby Dodds, Sid Catlett, and Louie Bellson
Autant dire le quasi inventeur de la batterie JAZZ !!!
Merci à lui
PAS Hall of Fame member Roy C. Knapp, known as the 'Dean of Percussion' by his many students, had an illustrious career as a performer and teacher in the Chicago area. His better-known students included Gene Krupa, Dave Tough, George Wettling, Baby Dodds, Sid Catlett, and Louie Bellson. Knapp's performing career spanned 1910 to 1961. In addition to performing in theaters, television, and with the Minneapolis Symphony, Knapp spent much of his career performing on WLS radio in Chicago, where he played on the 'trap' set that is now in the PAS Museum.
The foundation drums of Knapp's set, which mostly dates from the 1920s, are a single-tension 12 x 24 wooden-shell bass drum and a 6 x 14 wooden-shell snare. The snare has eight tube lugs and is one of the earliest models produced by the WFL Company. The set includes four Chinese tom-toms (ranging in size from 3 x 6 to 9 x 12), a pair of copper-shell timbales, a 'snowshoe' pedal, and numerous woodblocks, cowbells, temple blocks, triangles, and cymbals.
The temple blocks and smaller Chinese toms are ornately decorated and painted. The set also features a unique, double bass drum pedal that allowed Knapp to play just the bass drum or both the bass drum and the vertically attached cymbal. One bass drum pedal is an original 1909 Ludwig & Ludwig pedal, while the other is a modified 1924 Ludwig & Ludwig model.
The 'snowshoe' Charleston cymbal pedal is a forerunner of the modern hi-hat. It features two pieces of wood shaped like snowshoes, hinged at the heel. Between these wooden 'shoes' are two cymbals that face each other. The performer's foot is inserted in a strap on the top shoe and used to tap the two cymbals together.
De l'oreille au geste... Du geste à l'oreille...
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le musée virtuel des vieilles batteries sur la drummerie :
http://www.ladrummerie.com/viewtopic.php?t=17648