Year : 1969
Label : Union
Genre : Jazz
Style : Jazz Rock, Funk/Soul
"R&B Drumming" is a Funk/Soul covers album including the greatest hits of Soul music released on legendary labels such as Stax or Motown by Otis Redding (The Dock Of The Bay, Respect), The Supremes (Love Child, You Keep Me Hanging On), James Brown (I Got The Feelin'). Professional drummer since 1948, Jimmy Takeuchi started in the Nobuo Hara's Sharps & Flats big band under the Wasaburo Takeuchi name. In the late 1950s, he played in a big combo including two others iconic drummers George Kawaguchi & Hideo Shiraki, joined the Yuzuru Sera's Modern Playing Made and the Kazuo Yashiro Trio in the late sixties, and later played with Hidehiko Matsumoto, Shoji Suzuki, Sadao Watanabe and Teddy Wilson.
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