Francis' Drumming Blog – A collection of drum sheet music, transcriptions, exercises, and books
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Description: Life Beyond the Cymbals
I lived in Davenport, Iowa from 1971-73, earning a living drumming and singing with the Millard Cowan Trio, first at the Holiday Inn in Bettendorf, Iowa, and later, at Millard’s own Davenport club, The Steamboat Lounge.
Davenport hosts the annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival on the banks of the Mississippi River. Davenport is hometown and burial place for legendary jazz cornetist, pianist, composer Bix Beiderbecke. The Festival is a gathering of traditional jazz bands – what some might call Dixieland jazz bands.
One year I spent as much time as I could at the Bix Festival, wanting to learn more about playing traditional jazz. To me, age 21, it was mostly guys in straw hats, white pants, and red-and-white striped shirts playing old-timey tunes.
Francis' Drumming Blog – A collection of drum sheet music, transcriptions, exercises, and books
Cruise Ship Drummer!