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Jazz Stories Bruce Ditmas<br />
i'm Bruce ditmas, i grew up in miami, born in atlantic city. i'm a drummer, keyboard<br />
player, composer, and producer.<br />
Cadence: I was going to ask you about Dino Saluzzi.<br />
Bd: Yeah, wow, that's a very uncomfortable subject.<br />
Cadence: Oh, well I don't know anything.<br />
Bd: i can tell you very quickly why. i was living in rome, playing with rava and<br />
playing with a bunch of other people. rava was going to do this tour with saluzzi<br />
for ecm. They were gonna do the tour for like six weeks, do a record, the whole<br />
deal - it sounded great. and he was gonna use furio di castri, the bass player<br />
from rava's group at that time. But saluzzi wanted these argentinian guys, his,<br />
like, brothers from down there, to be on it. so then they got Bob moses to play<br />
drums. Well, moses, i don't know whether he was like instinctual, but he bailed<br />
out. They hired me - "get on this thing." Well, you know, i'm not coming with<br />
this argentinian thing, so saluzzi hates me from the get-go. i don't know how he<br />
reacted positively to moses either. from the first rehearsal it was like "you gotta<br />
play this traditional thing" and i'm like, to rava, "you know, this is not why you<br />
hired me, to play traditional argentinian drums, i mean come on!" so we did this<br />
tour, and like every concert - we had this really great guitar player, harry peppel.<br />
68 | CadenCe Magazine | april May June 2013
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