It's like one player gets a feature and busts into a parallel universe and runs a triathalon- sonically. There are probably a few snare drum guys somewhere for whom this is really exciting stuff I can barely process it as a piece of music- the soloing at least. In a similar vein, here's the drum feature tune from Jones's one record as leader: Treating the drums like it's a musical instrument in an ensemble. My entire playing life, what you do on the drums is play to fit the situation, and make some kind of musical statement. Now, to me it's extremely weird to play a full-on drum corps style drum feature in the middle of very intimate piano trio music. I saw this and I needed to figure out what the hell is going on- clearly I'm missing something here: He was a big band drummer mainly active in the 60s, in the spectacular, chops-intensive mode of Sonny Payne, Louis Bellson, Buddy Rich, et al, though Jones is clearly a sideman, a road guy, rather than a marquis name. The Christian faith of the ages will be tested more severely than in any former Revolution, because it will be confronted with its supreme enemy, a completely economic, materialistic, and mechanistic interpretation of the word and of human life.I'm kind of narrow in my listening habits- I never listened to a whole lot of big band, so I never knew about the drummer Rufus Jones until I saw this video on the internet. The time has passed for “the complacent assumption of an unchanged world.” This situation which I see coming - though I am afraid most Americans are looking forward fondly to a new period of “normalcy” - this situation makes it more urgent than ever to have our Quaker Society inwardly prepared to be a purveyor of light and leading when the crisis comes. Nothing is ever going to be the same again and we cannot assume our Quakerism is to be unaffected by the euroclydon that is in front of us.
We have called it a war and the fighting has been with mechanized weapons, but we shall soon be face to face with awesome situations against which weapons are vain things, as ineffective as Canute’s futile attempts to stop the irresistible tides of the ocean.
Context: I want to make perfectly clear the act that the world is in the fringe, in the penumbra, of a tremendous Revolution, with a big R.
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