<span>It is very interesting and controversial story, same as
personality and carrier of Sun Ra, themselves. Sun Ra was probably forced to
leave college because of financial problems and his growing sense of isolation,
but he claimed that he had a vision in which the aliens talked to him and told
him to leave college and to play music, because that is his mission. He
explained that, in this vision, he found him self on the planet that he
recognized as Saturn, and that aliens told him that the world is going into
complete chaos, and that he should speak through music and that the world will
hear. Sun Ra was an American jazz composer, bandleader, pianist and synthesizer
player, known for his experimental approach to the music and controversial personality.</span>
Answer:
A drum kit is commonly described by the number of pieces it consists of. To work out how many ‘piece’ drum kit you have simply add up all the drums, ignoring cymbals and other hardware. Another method is to count the toms and then add 2 (for the snare and bass drum). So if your drum kit has 5 toms then it’s likely to be a 7 piece kit (assuming it has one snare drum and one bass drum). If a kit has one bass drum, one snare drum and one tom then it’s a 3 piece kit. The most common configuration is a 5 piece kit consisting of a bass drum, snare drum and 3 toms (high, mid and low) – and then of course you also have the hi-hats, cymbals etc. but these don’t count towards the number of ‘pieces’. You could have a 5 piece kit with 100 cymbals – it’s still a 5 piece kit.
Explanation:
Tony Williams
Tony Williams joined Miles Davis at the remarkably young age of 17, in 1963. He left right after recording In A Silent Way to concentrate on power-trio Lifetime with John McLaughlin and organist Larry Young
