Sonny Payne: Ten Minutes Of Madness
There have been a select few of extraordinary drummers who knew how to drive a big band and make it ten times the sum of its parts. For me, no one drove a big band like Sonny Payne drove the Basie orchestra. He swung like hell, made every accent and every cue in the chart, threw in amazing, inspiring drum fills and was tossing and twirling stick the whole time. A truly brilliant madman behind the drums. Check out this ten-minute drum feature from a 1962 European concert.
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