Rhythmn sections

Posted by: Goose on 22 February 2002

Ok folks
Who are your favourite rhythmn sections?

Can be any combo..eg drummer/bass, two saxes etc.
To start the ball rolling...

Merv Pepler / Roly Wynne (old ozrics line up)
Bruford / Levin - KC
Bozzio / Levin - BozzioLevinStevens

Over to you!

Goose

Posted on: 22 February 2002 by John C

William Parker/Hamid Drake
Tony Williams/Richard Davis
Charlie Haden/Ed Blackwell

John.

Posted on: 22 February 2002 by John C

"I think I want to put Mingus in there as weel - but what was the best pairing??"

Max Roach? On that concert in Toronto with Bird, Dizzy and Bud Powell. How's that for a lineup?

John. H

Posted on: 22 February 2002 by Paul Davies

Bruford, Wetton KC 1972-4

Posted on: 22 February 2002 by shazbut

Although I appreciate tight rhythm sections,for me there is nothing to compare to Lesh,Kreutzman and Hart,particularly on earlier stuff like Anthem of the Sun and The Eleven off Live Dead.

Sure they sound very loose a lot of the time,but on numerous live recordings,they rarely fail to excite.

Posted on: 22 February 2002 by Alex S.

Sly and Robbie

Over-used but probably cos they're good. Again, rather loose but don't lack punch and groove.

Alex

BTW Have you got Polytown: Bozzio, Torn, Karn? If not, why not?

Posted on: 22 February 2002 by Martin M

Bernard Purdie & Chuck Rainey

The Meters - the whole damn band was just an amazing rhythm section

Richie Hayward, Kenny Gradney, Paul Barrere, Sam Clayton - Little Feat. Always tasteful, always complex but never fussy. Stunning.

Vinnie Colaiuta, Arthur Barrow & Frank Zappa - hell, listen to Shut N Play Your Guitar for amazing feats of live playing. Again stunning.

Posted on: 22 February 2002 by Cheese

quote:
The Eleven off Live Dead

Agree totally. No one knows what they're actually about but it's just f* good.

Otherwise, Steve Gadd/Anthony Jackson take some beating (listen to their Petrucciani record). OTOH some of their mainstream stuff is just unbearable (Gadd Gang, the only CD I actually threw away!)

Cheese

Posted on: 22 February 2002 by Keith Mattox

Jerome Arnold - Bass & Billy Davenport - Drums
(Butterfield Blues Band)

Tony Levin - Bass & Bill Bruford - Drums
(King Crimson: 80's - early 90's)

Doug Clifford - Bass, Drums & Stu Cook - Bass, Drums
(Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Cheers

Keith.

Posted on: 23 February 2002 by Cheese

quote:
And who needs a good drummer when the bassist is Jaco Pastorius

Think he'd need a second bass player to get a proper rhythm section. Sorry but I hate all of his self-indulgent stuff

Cheese

Posted on: 25 February 2002 by Goose

Blimey Alex....
I am going to have to come round and catch up on all these side projects with groups/bands/collaborations I know, but haven't heard..getting abit too slack :-)

Cheers

Goose

Posted on: 25 February 2002 by Pete

Tony Levin and Steve Gadd. Because they can play just about any style going, and do it well at that. And they can roar out in the lead, or sit underneath and give everyone as much room as they want.

Bill Bruford's a superb drummer, but not always interested in actually playing a rhythm for everyone else to latch in with. Which perhaps makes him a better drummer than most halves of rhythm sections, but not always such a great half a rhythm section! Part of the reason why the Crimson "Double Trio" worked as well as it did was it had Pat Mastelotto to anchor the drumming back to Planet Earth while Bill did his fancy stuff over the top.

Jaco on bass and Bill on drums, that would have been something. As long as nobody else in the band wanted to get anything in edgeways...

Pete.