{"id":2322,"date":"2021-07-05T13:55:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:19:33","slug":"music-drums-joe-morello-take-five-enhanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2322","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC\/DRUMS: Joe Morello, Take Five (enhanced)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dave Brubeck - Take Five ENHANCED (Colourized 4K 60fps)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hou-gQ0F6g8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The video linked to on this post shows The Dave Brubeck Quartet playing their famous hit Take Five. An instrumental jazz number that is essentially a vehicle for a drum solo. And it charted! I can\u2019t really see such a thing happening nowadays.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Quartet\u2019s drummer, the near-blind &#8211; hence the Mr Magoo specs &#8211; Joe Morello, who started out playing violin, is one of the greatest drummers ever to have wielded sticks.&nbsp;Jazz isn\u2019t everyone\u2019s cup of tea (but as anyone who knows me will know, I personally <em>love<\/em> a lot of it), but both this number and the drum solo are essential listening\/learning for aspiring drummers, which is why I&#8217;m posting this here on my blog.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally shot in black and white, this clip has been both colourised and enhanced, by a chap whose YouTube channel is, very aptly, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCJlSr1YEmaK9Uobg5Mw0xbg\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCJlSr1YEmaK9Uobg5Mw0xbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drum Lucidly<\/a> (and also has another similarly enhanced video, of a Buddy Rich performance), for greater clarity, really helping bring it to life for a more modern audience.&nbsp;The drum solo starts around 4:40-ish. I hope you enjoy watching this master drummer at work as much as I do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video linked to on this post shows The Dave Brubeck Quartet playing their famous hit Take Five. An instrumental jazz number that is essentially a vehicle for a drum solo. And it charted! I can\u2019t really see such a thing happening nowadays.&nbsp; The Quartet\u2019s drummer, the near-blind &#8211; hence the Mr Magoo specs &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC\/DRUMS: Joe Morello, Take Five (enhanced)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-Bs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11346,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/11346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}