Diki ... My wife and I spent this past weekend in Newport RI, celebrating our 45th wedding ann'y (which is actually next Sunday) ...Fri nite we went to listen to a jazz group - piano, bass, drums, male vocalist (Mel Torme style) - a really GREAT group ... I commented to my wife that she should listen to how the drummer was playing in accordance with what the soloist - bass or piano - was playing ... sometimes during 'fours' they would do a 'call and answer' ... it was amazing how you could almost hear the drummer play the same 'notes' as the piano or bass ...
OMB players will often express thanks for the 'hassle free' life (and I wonder how much of the hassle THEY might have created ), but there is NOTHING like live musicians playing off each other!!!

t.