On September 15-18, 2004, at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut, The Whole Drum Truth jazz program will have its debut performance. The program highlight will be a four-drummer concert at Sprague Memorial Hall on Friday, September 17, 8 p.m. At the concert, the drummers will be awarded Yale's prestigious Duke Ellington Fellowship medals, and will perform extended percussion pieces specially composed by them for the event. Their artistic residency also will include performances for local public school children, seminars for Yale students and a master class.
In The Whole Drum Truth program, four of the greatest jazz drummers have banded together for the first time. They are principal creators of the rhythm and sound of modern jazz. In their more than 200 years of music making, these artists have played or recorded with every important instrumentalist and vocalist from Charlie Parker on down:
* Tootie Heath, Program Leader. Drummer for John Coltrane, the Modern Jazz Quartet and the Heath Brothers Quartet.
* Jimmy Cobb. Drummer for Miles Davis (Kind of Blue), Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan.
* Ben Riley. Thelonious Monk's drummer. Co-founder of Sphere.
* Ed Thigpen. Drummer for the Oscar Peterson Trio during its glory years. Ella Fitzgerald's drummer.
Traditionally, the drum has been a
In The Whole Drum Truth program, four of the greatest jazz drummers have banded together for the first time. They are principal creators of the rhythm and sound of modern jazz. In their more than 200 years of music making, these artists have played or recorded with every important instrumentalist and vocalist from Charlie Parker on down:
* Tootie Heath, Program Leader. Drummer for John Coltrane, the Modern Jazz Quartet and the Heath Brothers Quartet.
* Jimmy Cobb. Drummer for Miles Davis (Kind of Blue), Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan.
* Ben Riley. Thelonious Monk's drummer. Co-founder of Sphere.
* Ed Thigpen. Drummer for the Oscar Peterson Trio during its glory years. Ella Fitzgerald's drummer.
Traditionally, the drum has been a
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