November 27, 2009 at 8:30pm to November 28, 2009 at 12:30am
LUCY, TONY T, FRANK & GREG will be appearing at Jessies Villa tomorrow night. Come a hang out with us & do enjoy the best Itailian food in the tri state area. We will be performing in the lounge, Listen, Hang out, Dancing available all night! And ...
November 25, 2009 at 8pm to November 26, 2009 at 12am
Lucy, Tony T, Frank, & Greg will be appearing at Luciano's Restaurant Thanksgiving Eve, this Wednesday Night. Luciano's is a great place to eat & very reasonable. We set up in the dinning room so everyone can hang out at there own table. The Bar i...
Come listen to some GROOVIN' Jazz in Mt. Kisco @ the CAFE OF LOVE RESTAURANT, Featuring John Smith on Guitar, Frank Pisani on Keys, & Tony T. on the Drums.
NYC JAZZ @ it's BEST!
Hey Tony . Can't make it that night as Sugarush is also performing . I'm
sure Kenny told you the private gig went well and they really enjoyed the
3 songs we played . Nah , it was more like 7 songs . LOL . Happy Thanksgiving to you , your family a...
November 25, 2009 at 8pm to November 26, 2009 at 12am
LUCY, GREG, FRANK & TONY T. appearing at Luciano's Restaurant on Wednesday Night Nov. 25th Thanksgiving Eve from 8pm - 12am. The food is great & we set up in the dinning room so you can hang at the bar or your table.
Tony I also play with wrist speed technique - traditional left hand grip and I often get asked how do I play like that, especially from younger drummers who play matched grip and mainly from the rock school. If you look at youtube there is a video...
I echo your words! I can tell you are a true lover of the greats in drumming.
I run am Orchestra in Westchester NY, please check my site out & I hope to meet you some day.
www.tonytorchestra.com
Your comments are right on KEY! You really hit some high NOTES. The drumming from yester-year is gone because the drumming style has changed, big time. Where wrists & speed were the major factor in drum soloing, for the past 25 some odd years doub...
Tony T,
I totally agree, no one comes close and probably no one ever will !. Corey Cooks comments are also right on. Buddy learned his stuff on the street and not in any classroom. He was a natural. I've been kicking my skins for over 40 years (u...
The fact is that music school helps you get connections- but I never went to school and I've been fortunate enough to know a lot of Wynton Marsalis's bandmembers. So, it doesn't mean everything. You still have to find your way around AFTER music s...
But I do think that any drummer who has gone though a "school of drums" so to speak will have a certain element of genericism, unless he's been playing for a long enough time and has explored the instrument enough to add his own things on top of w...