Showing posts with label stick twirling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stick twirling. Show all posts

Monday, July 20, 2015

Stick tricks

Sonny, pained.
Be advised, if you plan on using Sonny Payne as a positive example for a lot of jive stick twirling, I have been informed that on the Basie band he was resented for doing that during other people's solos— which shouldn't be real surprising— and in fact once had a gun pulled on him for that reason. Food for thought, you know?