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During his own improvisation with drummer Andrew Cyrille, he'd listen to his partner, lock into an abstract drum phrase, and turn it into a bluesy backbeat. The dynamic grew nimbler when Cyrille met up with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, who bounced a steady stream of squeaks and drawls off Cyrille's high-pitched skins. The drummer brought a loose spontaneity to his tightly composed "drummer doodles", as he called them, one of which had been passed orally from John Coltrane to drummer Rashied Ali, then to Cyrille in a trio with Milford Graves. [Extracted from the article]