Sep 26, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
In Episode 5 of Groove & Talk, Seef Anam shares three grooves that have influenced generations of drummers and music: The Amen Brother Drum Break, F.T.B. by Robert Glasper, and Moanin' by Art Blakey…
the original, this is one of the most sampled beats of all time, because of drum and bass music.
And then once in the 80s and 90s, when sampling became more of a thing, people just really chopped it to bits, drum and bass, electronic music.
And I chose this groove not only because of sampling and its influence on modern music, but also modern drumming, dude.
And he was one of the first people trying to take electronic music and bring it back to acoustic stuff.
Right? Electronic music was taking acoustic stuff and sampling it, and now the musicians are like, oh, let's take that and play it live.
And so many of my favorite drummers, like Jojo Mayer, they were taking what they were hearing around at the time, which a lot of it was electronically inspired or produced, and trying to recreate it.
Like, shout outs to DeAnthony Parks, Mark Juliana, Chris Daddy Dave, all these people were just influenced by the modern music, hip hop, electronic at the time, and then brought it to modern jazz or whatever it is, really.
I think he was one of the first people I got really excited about when hearing Noah for the first time, where like, look at this guy just go ham on something that's really inspired by this
And all of those kind of grooves that we're so used to hearing nowadays, I don't think any of that would have really existed if Gregory Coleman didn't play this.
As someone who's played a lot of different genres and is kind of a melting pot musically, it feels really fitting to open up the show with this groove.
the original, this is one of the most sampled beats of all time, because of drum and bass music.
And then once in the 80s and 90s, when sampling became more of a thing, people just really chopped it to bits, drum and bass, electronic music.
And I chose this groove not only because of sampling and its influence on modern music, but also modern drumming, dude.
And he was one of the first people trying to take electronic music and bring it back to acoustic stuff.
Right? Electronic music was taking acoustic stuff and sampling it, and now the musicians are like, oh, let's take that and play it live.
And so many of my favorite drummers, like Jojo Mayer, they were taking what they were hearing around at the time, which a lot of it was electronically inspired or produced, and trying to recreate it.
Like, shout outs to DeAnthony Parks, Mark Juliana, Chris Daddy Dave, all these people were just influenced by the modern music, hip hop, electronic at the time, and then brought it to modern jazz or whatever it is, really.
I think he was one of the first people I got really excited about when hearing Noah for the first time, where like, look at this guy just go ham on something that's really inspired by this
And all of those kind of grooves that we're so used to hearing nowadays, I don't think any of that would have really existed if Gregory Coleman didn't play this.
As someone who's played a lot of different genres and is kind of a melting pot musically, it feels really fitting to open up the show with this groove.
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