Baby Dodds - Footnotes to Jazz, Vol. 1: Baby Dodds Talking and Drum Solos

This fascinating album follows jazz drummer Baby Dodd's as he demonstrates the sonic elements of his famous solos and discusses these component parts with the attentive audience. From a discussion of drumming in the 1920s to a tom-tom "workout," Dodd's' album is as entertaining as it is educational.

    1 Drums in the Twenties - 1. Jazzin' Babies Blues 2. Wild Man Blues
    2 Spooky Drums No. 1
    3 Shimmy Beat and Press Roll Demonstration
    4 Careless Love Blues
    5 Rudiments with Drumstick Nervebeats
    6 Maryland
    7 Spooky Drums No. 2
    8 Tom Tom Workout