Drummers on Drumming

This week’s guest is Joe Lana Jr. AKA The Cowboy Drummer. Based Rochester, NY, Joe has created quite the following with his hilarious drum videos coupled with amazing playing. If you don’t know about The Cowboy Drummer, go give him a follow right now. He has been a consistent positive force in my life, and I’m sure he will be for you too. But he’s not just an influencer, he’s a very active touring drummer with his band Dropout Kings, based in Phoenix, Arizona. He’s great. He’s a kind soul and I’m really grateful to have chatted with him. I hope you enjoy the 5 records that shaped Joe Lana into the drummer he is today!

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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.

JOE'S BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻

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Album - The Sickness

Artist - Disturbed

Release Year - 2000

Key Track(s) - Stupify / Droppin Plates / Down With The Sickness

Drummer - Mike Wengren

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Album - Hybrid theory

Artist - Linkin Park

Release Year - 2000

Key Track(s) - One Step Closer / Crawling / Papercut

Drummer - Rob Bourdon

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Album - Chocolate Star Fish and The Hotdog Flavored Water

Artist - Limp Bizkit

Release Year - 2000

Key Track(s) - Rollin / My Way / My Generation

Drummer - John Otto

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Album - Follow the Leader

Artist - Korn

Release Year - 1998

Key Track(s) - Freak on a Leash

Drummer - David Silveria

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Album - Dookie

Artist - Green Day

Release Year - 1994

Key Track(s) - When I Come Around / Basket Case / Welcome to Paradise

Drummer - Tre cool

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This week’s guest is Elias Mallin. Elias is one of my newest favorite people and this chat was fun. He warned me that he’d have a lot of controversial takes and I certainly was not disappointed. Elias is one of THE go-to drummers in LA with a resume that includes Kesha, Filter, Noah Cyrus, Kill Hannah, Hollywood Undead, Julia Michaels, Fear and the Nervous System, and so many more. This chat felt like I was just shooting the sh$t with an old friend and I hope you enjoy the 5 records that helped shaped Elias Mallin into the drummer he is today.

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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.

ELIAS' BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻

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Album - …And Justice For All

Artist - Metallica

Release Year - 1988

Key Track(s) - All of them

Drummer - Lars Ulrich

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Album - aenema

Artist - Tool

Release Year - 1996

Key Track(s) - All of them

Drummer - Danny Carey

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Album - White Pony

Artist - The Deftones

Release Year - 2000

Key Track(s) - Digital Bath, Passenger

Drummer - Abe Cunningham

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Album - Live And Loud

Artist - Ozzy Osbourne

Release Year - 1993

Key Track(s) - Shot in the Dark, Crazy Train, Bark at the Moon

Drummer - Randy Castillo

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Album - Under the Table and Dreaming

Artist - Dave Mathews Band

Release Year - 1994

Key Track(s) - Ants Marching, Satellite

Drummer - Carter Beauford

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This week’s guest is Tim Carman. Tim international touring musician, session drummer, educator, and published author with both Alfred Music and Hudson Music. He’s released 5 books and we talk about all of them at the end of our chat. Tim currently records and tours extensively with GA-20, a three-time Billboard #1 blues trio as well as leading two of his own projects: Tim Carman & The Street 45s—a world-groove inspired funk band—and the Tim Carman Trio—a vintage organ jazz trio. He loves to shuffle and I loved this chat. Big shoutout to Zack from the podcast Working Drummer for connecting Tim and me. This was a fun one with excellent choices and one of my favorite honorable mentions in this shows history. So I hope you enjoy the 5 records that shaped Tim Carmen into the drummer he is today. Cheers!

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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.

TIM'S BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻

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Album - The Colour and the Shape

Artist - Foo Fighters

Release Year - 1997

Key Track(s) - All ("Hey, Johnny Park!")

Drummer - Dave Grohl

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Album - Cracklin'

Artist - Roy Haynes with Booker Ervin

Release Year - 1963

Key Track(s) - Scoochie

Drummer - Roy Haynes

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Album - Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology

Artist - The Meters

Release Year - 1995

Key Track(s) - Live Wire, Yea You're Right, Pungee, Cissy Strut

Drummer - Zigaboo Modeliste

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Album - The Capitol Vaults Jazz Series: Big John Patton

Artist - Big John Patton

Release Year - 2011

Key Track(s) - The Silver Meter, Spiffy Diffy, String Bean

Drummer - Ben Dixon (First two tracks), Clifford Jarvis (String Bean)

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Album - Natural Boogie

Artist - Hound Dog Taylor

Release Year - 1974

Key Track(s) - See Me In the Evening

Drummer - Ted Harvey

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This week’s guest is Johnny Kelly. Johnny is mostly known for his tenure as the drummer for Type O Negative, but his full resume includes Quiet Riot, Danzig, Silvertomb, A Pale Horse Named Death, Kill Devil Kill, and his latest endeavor, Eye Am. Johnny is a hell of a hard-hitting player, but his awareness of dynamics and the development of a theme while crafting parts is the reason he’s in the third decade of a very fruitful career. I hope you enjoy the 5 records that shaped Johnny Kelly into the drummer he is today. Cheers

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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.

JOHNNY'S BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻

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Album - Physical Graffiti

Artist - Led Zeppelin

Release Year - 1975

Key Track(s) - In My Time of Dying, Kashmir, Ten Years Gone

Drummer - John Bonham

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Album - Sabotage

Artist - Black Sabbath

Release Year - 1975

Key Track(s) - The Writ, Megalomania

Drummer - Bill Ward

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Album - BBC Sessions

Artist - Led Zeppelin

Release Year - 1997

Key Track(s) - Since I’ve Been Loving You, Thank You

Drummer - John Bonham

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Album - Motley Crue

Artist - Motley Crue

Release Year - 1994

Key Track(s) - Power To The Music, Till Death Do Us Part

Drummer - Tommy Lee

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Album - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Artist - Beatles

Release Year - 1967

Key Track(s) - Lovely Rita, A Day In The Life

Drummer - Ringo Star

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This week’s guest is Tina Raymond. Tina is an accomplished drummer, composer, bandleader, and educator based in Los Angeles, CA and is the director of Jazz Studies at California State University Northridge. She presented globally and her teaching credits include Los Angeles City College, The Herbie Hancock Institute, University of Michigan, Bard College and Idyllwild Arts. She’s toured all over the world as a both a leader and sideman. Her upcoming releases include “Divinations” featuring 6 of her own compositions  and Rachel Eckroth’s Live at Sam First. She’s incredibly talented and an expert at relaying information in a fun way. I really hope you learn something from this one; she goes over A LOT. I hope you enjoy the 5 records that shaped Tina Raymond into the drummer she is today. Cheers! 

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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.

TINA'S BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻

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Album - Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Artist - Bill Evans

Release Year - 1959

Key Track(s) - Minority

Drummer - Philly Joe Jones

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Album - Live at The Pershing

Artist - Ahmad Jamal

Release Year - 1959

Key Track(s) Surrey With The Fringe On Top, Poinciana

Drummer

Vernel Fournier

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Album - When the Pawn…

Artist - Fiona Apple

Release Year - 1999

Key Track(s) - Limp, Fast As You Can

Drummer - Matt Chamberlain, Butch Norton, Jim Keltner

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Album - Art Pepper + Eleven

Artist - Art Pepper

Release Year - 1960

Key Track(s) - Move, Groovin’ High

Drummer - Mel Lewis

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Album - Soul Station

Artist - Hank Mobley

Release Year - 1960

Key Track(s) - This I Dig of You

Drummer - Art Blakey

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This week’s guest is Bosh Rothman. Bosh is an LA based drummer who’s played with Kills Birds, Living Things, Blondshell, Kim Gordon, Courtney Love, Marissa Nadler, Alison Mosshart and many more. I was first turned on to Bosh when I subbed for the main live drummer of the band, Blondshell this past January / February. And, while Bosh doesn’t normally tour with Blondshell, he recorded the drums on her debut record and it was really fun to learn his parts. The record kicks ass btw. Ever since that tour, I’ve wanted to get Bosh on the show so we finally made it happen…and I’m grateful we did! I hope you enjoy the 5 records that shaped Bosh Rothman into the drummer he is today. Cheers!

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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.

BOSH'S BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻

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Album - Lōc-ed After Dark

Artist - Tone Loc

Release Year - 1989

Key Track(s) - Wild thing

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Album - Appetite For Destruction

Artist - Guns N’ Roses

Release Year - 1987

Key Track(s)

Welcome to the jungle

Drummer - Steven Adler

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Album - White Album

Artist - The Beatles

Release Year - 1968

Key Track(s) - All!

Drummer - Ringo Starr/Paul McCartney

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Album - The Doors

Artist - The Doors

Release Year - 1967

Key Track(s) - Break On Through

Drummer - John Densmore

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Album - Plastic Ono band

Artist - John Lennon

Release Year - 1971

Key Track(s) - Well Well Well

Drummer - Ringo Starr

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This week’s guest is the one…the only Stanton Moore. Stanton is a GRAMMY award-winning drummer, educator and performer born and raised in New Orleans. His pride for his hometown is pretty unmatched.  In the early ‘90s, Moore helped found the New Orleans-based essential funk band Galactic who continue to amass a worldwide audience via recording and touring globally. The band has averaged 100 shows a year for the last 25 years. Moore launched his solo career in 1998. He has 8 records under his own name. In 2022 Moore started a new project with Grammy award winning guitarist and producer Eric Krasno. The Krasno / Moore Project’s current record is “Book of Queens”.

Throughout his 25 year career, Moore has played and or recorded with a diverse group of artists including Maceo Parker, Joss Stone, Irma Thomas, Leo Nocentelli and George Porter (of the Meters),Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine), Corrosion of Conformity, Donald Harrison Jr., Nicholas Payton, Trombone Shorty, Skerik, Charlie Hunter, Robert Walter, Will Bernard, Ivan Neville, Anders Osborne and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Les Claypool (Primus) to name a few.

With a bachelor’s degree in music and business from Loyola University, Moore stays involved in education by constantly presenting clinics and teaching master classes and private lessons all over the world. He has released two books and three video projects. His book Groove Alchemy was picked by Modern Drummer as one of the top 25 instructional drum books of all time. To continue with his passion for teaching and to become more closely connected with his students, he recently launched his own online drum academy, StantonMooreDrumAcademy.com. He’s the man and this is one for the books. I hope you enjoy the 5 records that shaped Stanton Moore into the drummer he is today. Cheers!

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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.

STANTON'S BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻

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Album - Live at Birdland

Artist - John Coltrane

Key Track(s) - Afro Blue

Drummer - Elvin Jones

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Album - 20 Greatest hits

Artist - James Brown

Key Track(s) - All

Drummer - Melvin Parker, Jabo Starks, Clyde Stubblefield

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Album - Look a Py Py

Artist - The Meters

Key Track(s) - All

Drummer - Zigaboo Modeliste

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Album - Physical Graffiti

Artist - Led Zeppelin

Key Track(s) - All

Drummer - John Bonham

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Album - Crawfish Fiesta

Artist - Professor Longhair

Key Track(s) - All

Drummer - Johnny Vidacovich

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This week’s guest is Rich Redmond. Rich has been the touring and recording drummer with multi platinum country rocker Jason Aldean for nearly two decades. He has recorded 31 #1 radio hits and plays to millions of fans per year in iconic venues across the globe. Rich has also worked with artists such as Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Ludacris, Bryan Adams, Bob Seger, Chris Cornell, Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan and many more. Rich is also a busy educator, speaker, author and actor. www.richredmond.com. But before that, I hope you enjoy the 5 (actually six) records that helped shape Rich Redmond into the player he is today. Cheers !

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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.

RICH'S BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻

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Album - Winelight

Artist - Grover Washington Jr. (Featuring Bill Withers)

Release Year - 1980

Key Track(s) - "Just The Two Of Us"

Drummer - Steve Gadd, Ralph MacDonald (also writer)

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Album - Foreigner

Artist - Foreigner

Release Year - 1977

Key Track(s) - "Feels Like The First Time" and "Double Vision"

Drummer - Dennis Elliott

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Album - Outlandos D'Amour

Artist - The Police

Release Year - 1978

Key Track(s) - "So Lonely", "Born in the 50's", "Can't Stand Losing You"

Drummer - Stewart Copeland

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Album - The Power Station

Artist - The Power Station

Release Year - 1985

Key Track(s) - "Bang A Gong" and "Some Like It Hot"

Drummer - Tony Thompson

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Album - "Scarecrow" 1985 and "The Lonesome Jubilee" 1987

Artist - John Mellencamp

Release Year - 1985 and 1987

Key Track(s) - "Small Town" and "Lonely Ol' Night" 1985 and "Check it Out" and "Hard Times For An Honest Man" 1987

Drummer -Kenny Aronoff 

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This week’s guest is Curt Bisquera, AKA Kirkee B. He’s played with so many great artists, such as Elton John, Mick Jagger, Tom Petty, Sarah Mclaughlin, Lana Del Ray, and Johnny Cash, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. His pocket is deeeeeep, and his stories are endless. This episode is Kirkee B’s SECOND appearance on the show; I had him on a few years back to discuss five defining moments in his recording career, but this time he discusses the five records that helped shape him to be one of the GO-TO sessions players in LA. I love him. He’s so fun. I hope you enjoy my chat with the one and only Curt Bisquera.

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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.

KIRKEE B'S BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻

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Album - Yellowjackets

Artist - Yellowjackets

Release Year - 1981

Key Track(s) - Matinee Idol

Drummer - Ricky Lawson

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Performance - Live at Disneyland

Artist - Buddy Rich

Release Year - 1976

Drummer - Buddy Rich

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Album - What Time Is It?

Artist - The Time

Release Year - 1982

Key Track(s) - The Walk

Drummer - Morris Day

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Album - TOTO IV

Artist - TOTO

Release Year - 1982

Key Track(s) - Waiting For Your Love

Drummer - Jeff Porcaro

Album - Group Sex

Artist - Circle Jerks

Release Year - 1981

Key Track(s) - Red Tape

Drummer - Lucky Leher

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This week’s guest is Noah Hecht - a Brooklyn-based drummer / instructor who proudly studied under Billy Hart at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and College. He’s worked with Purr, Yeasayer, Eleanor Friedberger, Man Forever, Porches, Cassandra Jenkins and many more. If I were to state a through line for this chat, it’s that Noah is obsessed with placement and its relationship with time. You’ll see what I mean 😊 BYEEE!

Noah’s Teacher - Marivaldo Lima

https://www.instagram.com/marivaldolima/

2 Part Documentary - Maracatu Nação Estrela Brilhante (it’s in Portuguese, but used those CC’s)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bU0L6HHSpc8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UIMORU9ao1o

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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.

NOAH'S BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻

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Album - On The Beach

Artist - Neil Young

Release Year - 1974

Key Track(s) - Revolution Blues

Drummer - Levon Helm

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Album - A Love Supreme

Artist - John Coltrane

Release Year - 1965

Key Track(s) - Acknowledgement

Drummer - Elvin Jones

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Album - Billy Hart Quartet

Artist - Billy Hart

Release Year - 2006

Key Track(s) - Neon

Drummer - Billy Hart

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Album - Maracatu Nação Estrela Brilhante

Artist - Maracatu Nação Estrela Brilhante

Release Year - 2002

Key Track(s) - Cheguei Meu Povo

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Album - Voodoo

Artist - D'Angelo

Release Year - 2000

Key Track(s) - The Root

Drummer - Questlove

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