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Gerald Achee (Stage name Gerry Drums) was a Calypso musician and djembe drummer. In his music, Achee develops traditions of Count Ossie , Andre Tanker and Babatunde Olatunji . His works with clarinetist Perry Robinson and other jazz musicians characterised him as a free jazz , avant-garde djembe drummer.
The drum is very loud, allowing it to be heard clearly as a solo instrument over a large percussion ensemble. The Malinké people say that a skilled drummer is one who "can make the djembe talk", meaning that the player can tell an emotional story (the Malinké never used the djembe as a signaling drum).
The Beatles arriving for concerts in Madrid, July 1965. From 1961 to 1966, the English rock band the Beatles performed all over the Western world. They began performing live as The Beatles on 15 August 1960 at The Jacaranda in Liverpool and continued in various clubs during their visit to Hamburg, West Germany, until 1962, with a line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart ...
The Beatles were aware of their inadvertent (and uneasy) role as de facto ambassadors of Black music to White America. Lennon referenced it when recalling the initial U.S. resistance.
The Beatles in the U.S.A. and re-edited for 1991’s The First U.S. Visit, has been painstakingly restored by Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post — the same team that revived the Beatles ...
“Beatles ’64” opens with an extended sequence devoted to the early-’60s reign of John F. Kennedy — because, as has been noted so often, JFK was assassinated just a little over two months ...
The Beatles performed at Gator Bowl Stadium on 11 September after receiving assurance from the promoter that the audience would not be segregated. [14] Barry Miles writes that there were never plans to segregate the show. [30] The Beatles initially refused to go on stage until newsreel and television cameramen were forced from the arena. [31]
The Beatles in the U.S.A.," and formed the substance of the 1991 "The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit." (Bits and pieces have appeared in various Beatles docs over the years; it is foundational stuff.)