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  1. Bebop Jazz Icons:

    • Art Blakey (Moanin' - The Jazz Messengers)
    • Kenny Clarke (Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk)
    • Max Roach (Cherokee - Clifford Brown/Max Roach)
    • Roy Haynes (Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk)
    • Philly Joe Jones (Billy Boy - Miles Davis)
    • Jimmy Cobb (Kind of Blue - Miles Davis)

    British Rock Royalty:

    • Ringo Starr (Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles)
    • Charlie Watts (Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones)
    • Keith Moon (Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who)
    • Ginger Baker (White Room - Cream)
    • John Bonham (Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin)
    • Mitch Mitchell (Manic Depression - Jimi Hendrix Experience)

    Afro-Cuban Hits - Ballroom, Folkloric & Pop:

    • Para Los Rumberos - Tito Puente (Mike Collazo, drums)
    • Quimbara - Celia Cruz (Johnny Pacheco, percussion)
    • Ponte Para Las Cosas - Los Van Van (Changuito, drums)
    • The Glamorous Life - Sheila E (Sheila E, drums & percussion)
    • Xiomara - Irakere (Bernardo García, drums)
    • Oren - Gonzalo Rubalcaba (Ignacio Berroa, drums)

    "The Latin Tinge" in Jazz Music:

    • Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band (Chano Pozo, congas; Kenny Clarke, drums)
    • Caravan - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
    • So Danco Samba - Stan Getz, Joåo Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim (Milton Banana, drums)
    • O Grande Amour - Stan Getz (Grady Tate, drums)
    • La Fiesta - Chick Corea & Return to Forever (Airto, drums)
    • The Sidewinder - Lee Morgan (Billy Higgins, drums)

    "The Latin Tinge" in Pop/Rock/R&B Music:

    • What'd I Say? - Ray Charles Orchestra (Milt Turner, drums)
    • Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 (João Palma, drums)
    • Oye Como Va - Santana (Michael Shrieve, drums)
    • Late in the Evening - Paul Simon (Steve Gadd, drums)
    • No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley & the Wailers (Carlton Barrett, drums)
    • Cecila - Simon & Garfunkel (Airto, percussion; João Palma, drums)

    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA:

    • Struttin' with Some Barbeque - Louis Armstrong (Warren "Baby" Dodds, drums)
    • Poinciana - Ahmad Jamal (Vernel Fournier, drums)
    • Hey Pocky Way - The Meters (Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste, drums)
    • Iko Iko (Brother John) - The Neville Brothers (Herman Ernest, drums)
    • Big Chief - Professor Longhair (Johnny Vidacovich, drums)
    • Second Line - Treme Brass Band (Herlin Riley, drums)

    Shuffle Rhythms:

    • Choo, Choo, Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five (Christopher Columbus, drums)
    • Green Onions - Booker T & the MGs (Al Jackson, Jr., drums)
    • Doin' it to Death - James Brown (John "Jab'o" Starks, drums)
    • Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye (Marvin Gaye, drums)
    • Babylon Sisters - Steely Dan (Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, drums)
    • Party Time - Buddy Rich Big Band

    5 Milestone Big Band Drumming Recordings:

    • The Mooche - Duke Ellington Orchestra (Sonny Greer, drums)
    • Jumpin' at the Woodside - Count Basie Orchestra (Jo Jones, drums)
    • Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman Orchestra (Gene Krupa, drums)
    • Cute - Count Basie Orchestra (Sonny Payne, drums)
    • West Side Story Medley - Buddy Rich New Swingin' Big Band
    • Skin Deep - Duke Ellington Orchestra (Louie Bellson, drums & composer)
  2. The urinal problem 2014-04-26

    A man walks into a men's room and observes n empty urinals. Which urinal should he pick so as to maximize his chances of maintaining privacy, i.e., minimize the chance that someone will occupy a urinal beside him?

  3. Because year-end lists are hip, here's 10 albums I loved from this year with tiny blurbs why, in no particular order: Intronaut - Habitual Levitations - Heavy, but thoughtful and risk-taking, truly original music Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse - Incredible songwriting and arranging. Moderat - II - Production and grooves! Revocation - Revocation - Thrashy yet refined and technical Fat Freddy's Drop - Blackbird - Deeply funky grooves in the reggae/r&b vibe Cloudkicker - Subsume - Gorgeous layering of guitars upon guitars anchored by some killer math-y grooves. Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia - Deconstructed jazz trio music turns into mesmerizing overlapping loops. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer - Exactly what you'd expect from DEP, which is not knowing what to expect. Equally spazzy and melodic. Jaga Jazzist - Official Page - Live w/Britten Sinfonia - Re-arrangements of 10-piece neo-jazz compositions to allow room for a full orchestra, it sounds big! Shining - One One One - A refinement of their metal/jazz sound into incredibly powerful 4 minute songs.

  4. Deep Exposures 2013-07-30

    Since 1995, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Stephen Alvarez has exposed some of the world’s least explored places for National Geographic, from an ancient Incan tomb in Peru, to the world’s deepest cave, near the Black Sea. Here, the intrepid photographer pushes more than a mile underground to shoot the “Rumble Room” in Tennessee, the largest cave room in the Eastern United States.

    See http://c205892.r92.cf1.rackcdn.com/3611_iphone_hq.mp4