Drum Sum

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Drum Sum
BUCK CLARKE - DRUM SUM - FRONT.JPG
Studio album by
Buck Clarke Quintet
Released1961
RecordedNovember 8, 1960
Studio Bell Sound (New York City)
Genre Jazz
Label Argo
LP 4007
Producer Buck Clarke
Buck Clarke chronology
Cool Hands
(1960)
Drum Sum
(1961)
The Buck Clarke Sound
(1963)

Drum Sum is the second album by American jazz percussionist Buck Clarke. The album was released in 1961. Recorded November 8, 1960 at Bell Sound Studios, New York on Argo Records. [1] The album features Fred Williams, Don McKenzie, Clement Wells, Charles Hampton and Roscoe Hunter.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 4:27
  2. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:45
  3. "Funk Roots" (Fred Williams) – 2:45
  4. "Darben, The Redd Foxx" (Charles Hampton) – 3:07
  5. "Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson) – 4:10
  6. "Blues For Us" (Clark, McKenzie, Hampton, Williams, Hunter) – 4:50
  7. "Georgia" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – 2:40
  8. "Drum Sum" (Fred Williams) – 3:05
  9. "Buckskins" (Charles Hampton) – 3:42
  10. "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:02

Personnel

Production notes:

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References

  1. "Buck Clarke Quintet - Drum Sum". discogs.com. Retrieved 17 February 2017.