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Joe was the man. I have played the drums for over 31 years and got into Joe's drumming when I watched Neil Peart's Burning For Buddy series with Joe as one of the drummers paying tribute to Buddy Rich.

RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7OX0zANgCw

1 posted on 03/13/2011 11:14:24 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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Joe Morello was my drum teacher back in the early ‘80s. He was a brilliant drummer and a great guy. Despite being legally blind he could play drums just out of this world. Rest in Peace Joe and thanks.


2 posted on 03/13/2011 11:19:25 AM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/drummer.html


4 posted on 03/13/2011 11:24:29 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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Joe Morello is on the very short list of the greatest drummers who ever picked up a pair of sticks. RIP Joe.


5 posted on 03/13/2011 11:53:52 AM PDT by Maceman (Obama -- he's as American as nasi goreng)
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Did he not just do something with McCoy Tyner?


6 posted on 03/13/2011 11:54:13 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Every knife in my back pushes me forward.)
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I was listening to him play this morning and had no idea he had passed. The great jazz misicians I’ve been listening to for fifty years will all be gone in a few years, but their music will live on for generations.


10 posted on 03/13/2011 1:13:32 PM PDT by balls (0 lies like a Muslim (Google "taqiyya"))
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RIP.


13 posted on 03/13/2011 2:23:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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Stone killer once a week!


14 posted on 03/13/2011 2:23:35 PM PDT by TsonicTsunami08
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Take Five!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=take+five&aq=f


15 posted on 03/13/2011 2:28:45 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
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Time Out: I'll never tire of listening to that CD.
16 posted on 03/13/2011 2:32:36 PM PDT by windsorknot
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17 posted on 03/13/2011 2:42:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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Brubeck got the inspiration for "Take Five" after hearing Morello playing a 5/4 beat while warming up backstage before a concert with alto saxophonist Paul Desmond. The pianist asked Desmond to write a melody in 5/4 time for a tune that would feature a Morello drum solo. Brubeck suggested combining two themes that Desmond wrote to create "Take Five," which became a surprise Top 40 hit on jukeboxes and one of the best-known jazz recordings.
19 posted on 03/13/2011 6:24:55 PM PDT by perfect stranger (Nobama)
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I took a Jazz class at Univ. of Pittsburgh many moons ago....didn’t know a thing about it, I was into prog rock at the time. Turned out that our lecturer for the class was old-time jazz drummer Kenny Clark - his “lectures” were mostly rambling stories about his days playing with the great names of jazz. Man, that class was a blast! Also found out that be-bop was sort of similar to the music I was into at the time, just horns instead of synthesizers, so I bought a bunch of jazz records and a fan was born.


20 posted on 03/13/2011 7:40:50 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Wanna learn humility? Become a Pittsburgh Pirates fan!)
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