This is The Home of the Environmental Rhythms of Daniel Ray (a/k/a Big Black)

  THIS CLIP FROM THE UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY

"BEING BIG BLACK" NOW IN PRE-PRODUCTION SHOWS

THE VIRTUOSITY OF ONE OF THE GREAT CREATIVE

ARTISTS  OF OUR TIME. BIG BLACK, WHO ADAM RUDOLPH

CALLS "THE PAPA JOE JONES OF HAND DRUMMING", 

SINGLE-HANDEDLY TOOK THE MOST ANCIENT OF ALL

INSTRUMENTS - THE AFRICAN HAND DRUM AND CREATED

A WHOLE NEW LANGUAGE FOR IT IN THE AFRICAN -

AMERICAN IMPROVISATIONAL TRADITION THUS

BECOMING THE FIRST HAND DRUMMER TO BE ABLE TO  

INTEGRATE IT FIRST  INTO SWING AND BE-BOP AND

LATER  INTO FUNK, HIP -HOP AND THE  FULL

CORNUCOPIA  OF WHAT BIG BLACK CALLS  "THE

ENVIRONMENTAL RHYTHMS" THAT PERMEATE OUR  

WORLD.

BIG BLACK'S GROUND- BREAKING MUSCIAL THEORIES,  

 COMPLEX INNOVATIVE COMPOSITIONS,  AND

UNMATCHABLE  MUSICIANSHIP WILL BE SHOWCASED IN A

DOCUMENTARY TRACING HIS FANTASTIC SIXTY YEAR

CAREER IN THE UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY "BEING BIG

BLACK".

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