More Minutes 31 - Sam Woodyard

Sam Woodyard is the drummer who helped Duke Ellington usher in a more modern sound in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Among his most iconic performances are the unique grooves he created for the Ellington/Strayhorn adaptation of the Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. This extended lesson explores a variation on Woodyard's hand groove on "Sugar Rum Cherry" as well as his seamless bass drum feathering and accents on "Peanut Brittle Brigade".