Elvin Jones

artin90artin90 Posts: 66
edited May 2004 in Musicians and Gearheads
I dont know if everybody heard about Elvin Jones. He's a drummer that passed away. He was one of the original jazz drummers to modernize Jazz. He is held to be one of the greatest drummers of all time. But i hope all of you guys find out a little bit about him.

This link will let you know some stuff

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Elvin_Jones.html
“ ahh…. Yaa…. If you trust me at all… if you wanna listen to me at all… which you certainly don’t have to. Speaking from experience I can tell you that things change. You could believe me, you don’t have to. They probably won’t change, unless you make them. The best way to change something around you, something you don’t like, is.. to change yourself. I don’t think you want other people changing you.. I think.. I think.. the only person you want changing you… is yourself. So if you ain’t happy…. If you’re reading magazines about generation x’s and thinking ‘ya im one of them’ well fuck that…. Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. No… No…. No one can tell me who I am. I can tell you who I am but that would be a long story… I can tell you who I am and it wouldn’t fit in a Rolling Stone…. It wouldn’t fit in a video… it wouldn’t… its my life…. Its your life. Youre the only one that knows who you are. I hope you know who you are. If you don’t know who you are, figure it out. Cause you are some body. And Im probably stating the obvious. But I just thought I would do it anyway. So if you fell like you got a piece of duct tape on your mouth, if you feel like you cant speak. Take it off, Speak up. Speak your Mind. Shout it Out. Let ‘em Hear Ya. Shout it out…… YAAA YAAAAA yAAAAAAAAAAA.” Eddie Vedder (Porch ’96 Randle Island 2)

10/22/03
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Comments

  • Doug RDoug R Posts: 34
    One of my all time faves.....I must have about every bluenote album that he played on.....
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