Louie Bellson Smithsonian Interview Block 868 (Q11664)

That's who - I studied with a student of Alan Dawson: Copeland - Keith Copeland. So I went through the - that's called the ritual, when you get down to the - you play the samba, and you play all the rudiments. But we also worked out of Syncopation. He said, "This is what Alan Dawson would do. " You go through and read it, and you play with this, or you play with the bass drum, you play with t ...