Baby Dodds Talking and Drum Solos

[gvopedz]

This fascinating album follows jazz drummer Baby Dodds as he demonstrates the sonic elements of his famous solos and discusses these component parts with the attentive audience. From a discussion of drumming in the 1920s to a tom-tom "workout," Dodds' album is as entertaining as it is educational.

https://folkways.si.edu/baby-dodds/footnotes-to-jazz-vol-1-talking-and-drum-solos/ragtime-oral-history-biography/album/smithsonian?mc_cid=8916691311&mc_eid=2c917bba9f

 

[jazzbo]

Great album I've had on cd for nearly 20 years. "As entertaining as it is educational" indeed.

[JSngry]

Couple this one with the American Music CD and it's like being admitted to a secret/lost world 

Baby Dodds is deep. Still.

[mikeweil]

I love these solos ever since I heard one of them on a Folkways anthology on African & Afro-American Drums way back in 1972. I was so glad when the CD finally was issued.

https://www.discogs.com/release/3091405-Baby-Dodds-The-Laneville-Union-Brass-Band-The-Lapsey-Band-Talking-And-Drum-Solos-1946-Country-Brass-