Drums Around the World

by Philly Joe Jones

Drums Around the World cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1959
  • Label: Riverside
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:53
  • Community rating: 3.5/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The unparalleled engine of the hard bop movement steps into the spotlight, leading an expanded ensemble featuring Lee Morgan and Blue Mitchell. As the title suggests, the arrangements heavily emphasize percussive interplay, allowing the leader to showcase his explosive, highly interactive drumming style through extended solos and complex polyrhythms. It stands as a brilliant, fiercely swinging monument to his rhythmic genius.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Blue Gwynn (7:29)
  2. Stablemates (5:56)
  3. "El Tambores" (Carioca) (4:29)
  4. The Tribal Message (2:51)
  5. Cherokee (8:17)
  6. Land Of The Blue Veils (3:38)
  7. Philly J. J. (10:13)

Credits

  • Philly Joe Jones Big Band Sounds - primary artist
  • Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
  • Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone
  • Jimmy Garrison - bass
  • Sam Jones - bass
  • Philly Joe Jones - drums, written-by, arranged by
  • Herbie Mann - flute, piccolo flute
  • Wynton Kelly - piano
  • Orrin Keepnews - producer, liner notes

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