DAN WEISS SIXTEEN: DRUMMERS SUITE| started writing this piece immediately after my last recording, Fourteen. was completed at the end of 2013. | loved the musical flexibility afforded re by the large ensemble on that work afd for my next recording | welcomed the opportunity to delve deeper into orchestration, and tonal color. | am thankful to my good friend Ohad Talmor for pushing me to pursue this, At the time | was learning an Elvin Jones comping rhythm from a John Coltrane recording and decided to use this source material as the basis for a composition. Then the idea came to me totake rhythmic phrases of some of my favorite drummers and make them the foundation of a suite. Each piece on Sixteen is built not only around these specific drum patterns but they also reflect the personality trait of each drummer. which | cross-réference from movement to movement 8 a way of showing how they influenced one another. Sixteen can be viewed both as six independent pieces as well as well as one unified work, reflecting the nature of the drum lineage in the jazz tradition. The introduction piece “The Drummers Meet” intertwines all six drummers’ phrases in the context of a Chakradar, a specific type of tabla composition. The source material for the other "pieces are: Elvin Jones, from John Coltrane Quartet Live in Belgium, 1965 (video): “Vigil” 2:15 to 2:23. 4; | Max Roach, from Max Roach’s Deeds, Not i Words:" Jodie's Cha Cha" 1:02 to 1:11 ‘Tony Williams, from Miles Davis's i Nefertiti:"Nefertiti” 6:37 to 6:50 Philly Joe Jones, from Miles Davis's Milestones “Billy Boy” 5:10 to 5:14 4 Kenny “klook” Clarke, from Dexter Gordon's Our Man in Paris: “Broadway” 0:00 to 0:09 Ed Blackwell fromJohin Coltraneand Don Cherry's The Avant Garde: “Chierryco” | 4:55 to 5:02é Producer: Dan Weiss Executive Producers: Seth Rosner and Yulun Wang. Recorded December 18-20, 2014, and mixed and mastered by Max Ross at Systems Two Recording Studio, Brooklyn, New York Dan Weiss uses Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks, and Remo drumheads. danweiss.net pirecordings.com