Benny Benjamin
drums (Motown)
Detroit drummer who became a mainstay of Motown’s studio band; Barry named him among the Detroit shuffle drummers he played with.
- mentions
- 1
- recordings
- 1
- Barry speaking
- 1
What Barry says
Asked who was the best shuffle drummer he played with, Barry says Detroit was full of them and names some who went on to Motown: Pistol and Benny Benjamin. Asked if he played with Pistol and those drummers, he says he did.
Interview: Detroit, Bud Powell and the shuffle21:01
The question follows the interviewer’s praise of the shuffle. Barry answers that in Detroit they had to play rhythm and blues gigs, with drummers who knew how to play it. The lines after, which seem to be his too, call the shuffle sometimes the best thing of all, something drummers should keep in mind even in their regular beat.
In his own words
Detroit was loaded with those cats. Some of those cats, they went with Motown, Pistol... Benny Benjamin.
We had to play rhythm and blues gigs, and we had to play with them. Drummers who knew how to play the shuffle.
Every mention
1 moments in the recordings, 1 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Interview: Detroit, Bud Powell and the shuffle
- 21:01
Names Benny Benjamin, with Pistol, among Detroit shuffle drummers who went on to Motown.
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.