So what's this groove, and why'd you pick it?

This is a groove from a tune called Poinciana by Ahmad Jamal.

And the groove comes from Bernail Fournier, who's a drummer out of New Orleans.

It's got like all this, I mean, obviously we're using sticks and mallets or whatever, but you can hear the New Orleans influence kind of on this like big four.

Like the floor tom is kind of like representative of what you would think of like a big four in a lot of New Orleans music, right? So, I was watching this interview with Vernel Fournier one time, and he talked about how this groove comes out of like a New Orleans street beat, but he kind of, like when he started this groove, it didn't work.

But it was really interesting to me to see, like, this groove is very iconic.

Like, if you go to a jazz jam session or really anywhere, they might say, hey, can you play this but with the pointeana groove? And the first time somebody did that to me, I was just like...

How special is that to be able to play in a band with your brother?