Back when I used to run a jazz record label, I became friends with an Australian drummer by the name of Nick McBride, who used to play a lot with the music scene I intersected with. For all practical purposes, this meant that he and his fellow Aussie jazz musicians crashed at our place when they were over in NZ for gigs and recordings.
Nick lives in Shanghai these days, and sent me this link to a live video recording (colourised and processed) of JR, the band he’s working with at the moment.
Thought it was nice, and something a bit different, so I decided to post it here. Nick’s playing in this context is more restrained and polite than I’m used to hearing it — he trained with a Kenyan master percussionist, and there’s usually some African influence in there — but he’s very much the jazz drummer.
Here’s a link to his ‘Bandika’ album, and he has a few of his own tracks available at his MySpace page.
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