Drum Solos Are Cool Again

UK (SANEPR.com) January 14, 2009 -- British jazz drummer and bandleader has harnessed the power of internet technology to develop a worldwide following for a genre of music many consider to be dead and buried. Pete is reinvigorating big band music completely without resorting to 'Rat Pack' cliches. In fact, there isn't a vocalist anywhere to be seen. This time it's the turn of the musicians to take centre stage.

Perhaps even more remarkably, drum solos are cool again.

It’s usually the moment during a gig when whole swathes of the audience make for the bar as on stage there remains one lonely and hapless figure, shirt off, as he contemplates stretching his several weeks of musical training to fill the next ten minutes.
Contrast this then with the urbane, sharp dressing, straight talking Pete Cater, undoubtedly one of the UK’s greatest jazz drummers, who is experiencing huge interest in his latest project. Pete, together with his 15-piece big band will be recreating the work of drum legend Buddy Rich.

This event takes place at Cadogan Hall, just off Sloane Square in the heart of London on Monday March 16th at 8pm.



The concert will contain virtually all the best-remembered and most frequently requested items from Rich’s repertoire, and is a rare opportunity to hear this repertoire played live exactly as it was intended to sound.
Expect to hear “West Side Story”, “Love for Sale”, “NorwegiaThe concert will contain virtually all the best-remembered and most frequently requested items from Rich’s repertoire, and is a rare opportunity to hear this repertoire played live exactly as it was intended to sound.
Expect to hear “West Side Story”, “Love for Sale”, “Norwegian Wood” and much more of the unforgettable music made famous by arguably the most successful big band of the 60s, 70s and 80s. This could easily be said to be the ultimate challenge for any drummer, but Pete Cater is more than up to the task.
Pete first took to the stage as leader of his own big band while still a teenager. He has had his current band since 1995, appearing throughout the UK and Europe. The band can be heard on three internationally acclaimed CDs, all of which have featured new music that has combined the best of the core values of big bands whilst presenting a forward looking approach to the music.

When Buddy Rich passed away in 1987 commentators stated;
“We will never see his like again”.
Not so, it would seem.