there's none better! always baffles me how he got such a huge sound with those brushes half-closed!

Great. Thanks.

...pessimist...I consider half open!

So swingin' ! That's great.

Hey - beats 1/2 baked!

Ahmad sounds so good it's nuts. This clip reminds me of how, as a drummer, you are as good as who you're accompanying. You could be playing the same one night with a terrible C&W group and people will say you suck, the next night you are with Ahmad Jamal and everyone says you're the best drummer in the world.

I think that was one of the most influential bands of all time. At least 20 years ahead of their time. It almost sounds sequenced the way the parts are stacked so perfectly. It's Miles defined. On the 1958 "Live at the Pershing" album Vernel does the open hi hat beat that Steve Gadd used on Leo Sayer's "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing".

Ahmad had one of the sayings I try to live by, probably one of the best of all time, I'll try to repeat it as best I can: "Anybody can swing loud, but to swing soft with the same intensity as you do when you swing loud is what separates the good players from the great".