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Does the sound of various types of DRUMS help you work hard?
It does for me, as I experienced earlier today.
I gave the bathroom a thorough cleaning to the sound of "ORGY IN RHYTHM," the percussion album led by ART BLAKEY in 1957.
Accomplished percussionist Blakey recruited three more top-notch drummers, Art Taylor, Jo Jones and "Specs" Wright -- with the latter two also playing tympani.
Blakey also called in bongo and timbales legend Sabu, conga players "Potato" Valdez and Jose Valiente, timbales man Ubaldo Nieto and multi-percussionist Evilio Quintero, who played cencerro, maracas something called "tree log," which must have been exactly what the name implies.
The result is a drums feast, aided by Herbie Mann on flute, Ray Bryant on piano and bassist Wendell Marshall.
Afro-Cuban sounds dominate this Blue Note records classic, but the instrumental combination really produces a sound unlike I or many others had heard before.
"Side one opens with Jo Jones on tympani, the mournful flute of Herbie Mann and Sabu crying the 'Buhaina Chant' in a manner somewhere between a muezzin and a cantor," Ira Gitler wrote in the original liner notes. "Then Art explodes into the forefront and after a while the Latin rhythm joins him."
The eclectic mix of rhythm must be heard to be believed, and believe me -- it provides an excellent soundtrack to some hard work.