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Graphics & LayoutsIN LOVING MEMORY OF MY GRANDPA DAVE BLACKI love all music. Thanks to my grandpa david Black. The greatest drummer that I have had the pleasure of loving. He passed away monday december 4, 2006 of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 78 years old, and in september of 2005 he still playing the drums. I love you grandpa.There are some great pics, video and more at drummerworld.com. Please check them out.Drummer Dave Black dies at 78
By Adam Bernstein, Washington Post
Inside Bay Area
Article Last Updated:12/07/2006 07:45:14 AM PSTWASHINGTON — Dave Black, a jazz drummer who toured and recorded with Duke Ellington's big band in the mid-1950s and inspired composer Billy Strayhorn to write the drum showcase "Gonna Tan Your Hide," died Dec. 4 at his home in Alameda. He was 78 and suffered from pancreatic cancer.
Black, an immensely versatile drummer, played swing, bebop and early rock with equal skill in his native Philadelphia. After seeing him perform, Fred Astaire called Black "the only drummer I've seen with dancing fingers."He joined Ellington in 1953 after beating out Ed Shaughnessy and Philly Joe Jones in a contest to replace Ellington drummer Louis Bellson. He stayed with the band two years, until a diagnosis of polio forced his departure after a date in Portland. He missed the Ellington revival that followed the bandleader's celebrated July 1956 appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival.After recuperating, he became a staple of a Dixieland revival band led by trumpeter Bob Scobey and a much-admired freelance drummer in the Bay Area, performing with singer Lena Horne, pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines and others.Speaking of Ellington, Black told jazz writer Nat Hentoff: "Of all the band leaders I have worked for, he was very free — letting you play your way, your style. I remember one night we were playing 'Rockin' in Rhythm' and I just got the bug. I played it as Latin 6/8, and he loved it. I felt like a million-dollar star. When the set finishes, he said: 'That's it. When you feel something, just go for it. That the way to do it.'"David John Black was born Jan. 23, 1928, to Scottish immigrants. His first memory of music was banging on a toy drum sent by an aunt in Scotland. In 1948, he won the Gene Krupa National Drum Contest.After graduating from a vocational high school in Philadelphia, he became house drummer at the Blue Note club in Philadelphia, where he backed such visiting luminaries as Charlie Parker, Zoot Sims and Georgie Auld. Bellson became Black's champion with Ellington after seeing him.at the club.Black can be heard on such Ellington albums as "The 1954 Los Angeles Concert" and "Ellington'55." His recording of "Gonna Tan Your Hide" was on the 1975 compilation "Hi-Fi Drums" that also featured Krupa, Bellson, Buddy Rich, Stan Levey and Chuck Flores.Steve Smith, a drummer with the rock band Journey, once praised Black's rapid bass drumroll and "really swinging polyrhythms."He continued an active career until recently and particularly enjoyed the audience reaction at seeing a septuagenarian complete whirlwind drum solos on "Jumpin' at the Woodside.""People are amazed I can do all that stuff," Black told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004. "It's the age thing. When I was a great drummer at 24, nobody gave a (expletive). Now that I'm old and can hardly sit up, they say, 'Jesus, did you see that old man play?'"Black, who won a Charlie Chaplin imitation contest as a young man, was also known for drumming pratfalls. A favorite routine he had with Ellington was to trip himself as he walked to the drum set onstage. Later, he liked feigning blindness and playing drums with a walking stick.His marriage to Lorraine Jeffers Black ended in divorce. His second wife, Olga Black, died about five years ago. A son from his second marriage, Lawrence "Brittley" Black, a drummer with the heavy metal band Crime, died in 2004.Survivors include a son from his first marriage, Brian Black of Springtown, Texas; two sisters; five grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
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My kids Heather and Timmy and my Grandpa Dave Black who has always proven you can do anything you put your mind to. He was diagnosed with cancer only a few months ago and fought to the end.He lost the battle on December 4, 2006. My family and the music world have lost someone great.I LOVE YOU GRANDPA.
