As far as I am concerned, I can never find enough recordings with the great Magella Cormier on drums. His huge listening ears, explosive chops are the kinds that inspire me each time I hear them. Problem is.. There arn't enough of his recording.. Just discovered these tracks this evening... Hopefull...

Look up Aaron Serfaty. He was a session guy in Venezuela back in the day and he was one of my teachers at LAMA. He's also teaching at USC. Yes, real good player... Check out Aaron's playing on Otmaro Ruiz's Distant Friends. http://www.amazon.com/Distant-Friends-Otmaro-Ruiz/dp/B000001A4M Aaron &...

Another good one in 6/8 is Ouverture #5 by Uzeb and violinist Didier Lockwood on '86 Absolutely Live: Yes nice souvenir! Got that on LP... To me, Didier Lockwood's style really complemented UZEB's music really, really well. I remember seeing this tune Live. They actually opened the show with Ouvert...

This is a follow-up to the recent Robbie Ameen thread... http://www.houseofdrumming.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=237 So as Tombo was saying in the thread... Alex absolutely kills on Dance Of Chance!! Love Don Alias' strong support too... This was my first Chick Corea album... And here's the pr...

Check his work on Chick's Touchstone from 1982; Dance of Chance Oh man... Do I ever love TOUCHSTONE... :D I first got the LP back in 1983 .. was a young dude then... I lended the CD version to a friend and never got it back since... Grrr.. Totally agree on Dance Of Chance... Kim Plainfield mentions...

Very interesting post Tombo!

Would you agree that Alex Acuna is one of the Pioneer drummers who incorporated the left-foot clave to the drums? I really dig how his left-foot clave sounds ... Actually Alex is one of those naturals... Always feels good to listen to...

Hey Tombo... How's your Fusion band coming along? Are you guys still having gigs? Oh and thanks for the positive feedbacks... Looking fwd to the next opportunity to meet... Yeah Clint... BEAT knew his stuff... he had these kinda "in your face" posts as I remember it... Oh and Fuse now know...

I recommend Dave Valentin Live @Blue Note.. Robbie does a great job merging funk, jazz and Latin rythms...

http://www.amazon.com/Live-Blue-Note-Da ... 537&sr=8-3

Happy Anniversary Tombo... I think it may be my 11th year or so... Things have changed somewhat ... I am now much more high-level in my posts than I used to... Anyone remember HOD member "BEATS"? Through HOD I came to know Tombo who's from the same hometown... We had the chance to do the d...

Nice find !! Some of these Vinnie licks stick to me... As the ones on Zldjian Days NY... It makes me wanna practice and be able to incorporate and play 'hem... Work In Progress for sure...