And the bass drum was more accents and bombs. Temple pauses to let it sink in. His audience nods as if it has. I mean nobody . The drummer's one-man seminar may not know the first thing about percussive technique, but he did watch Ken Burns' marathon NPR segment, Jazz .
Jazz is full of firsts.
Temple starts beating time on the soft, round edge of the wooden table, scatting to the rhythm of his two index fingers. He's playing phrases that are actually fitting under soloists, and are fitting with a piano player, and that frees up the bass to not have to just play time. So now, the bass player doesn't even have to do that. The bass player can play in two, walk in four. He can play different phrases.