I encourage all of my friends to take up film photography, so to help them out of the trouble I have gotten them into, I’ll be posting a little series of pieces about my methods. […]
Month: January 2011
Three Camps
This is a traditional rudimental piece going back to at least Civil War days- it consists of accented rolls in a triplet pulsation. Originally it functioned as a sort of camp alarm clock, as part […]
Favorite albums: Where In The World by Bill Frisell
Where In The World by Bill Frisell 1991 – Nonesuch B000002H9S Bill Frisell – guitar Hank Roberts – cello Kermit Driscoll – bass Joey Baron – drums I and a lot of other drummers of my […]
Solo transcription: Jack Dejohnette – God Bless The Child
Another example of that ECM gospel feel with my original transcription of Jack Dejohnette’s famous solo on God Bless The Child, from Keith Jarrett’s Standards Volume 1: Keith Jarrett – Standards, Vol. 1 ECM B000VAKNLK […]
1996 Paul Motian interview, last part: There’s No Rules, Man
This is the last part of my excerpts of Chuck Braman’s 1996 interview with Paul Motian. I highly recommend you visit Braman’s site and read the entire unedited piece (part 1 – part 2); there […]
1996 Paul Motian interview, part 4: Rumba Beat on a Tom Tom
Fourth part of my excerpts of Chuck Braman’s 1996 Paul Motian interview: FREE: Chuck: When you first heard people actually playing free, how did it strike you, coming from a background rooted so strongly in […]
Car chases!
This is fun: Marc Myers at Jazz Wax interviews Loren Janes, one of the stunt drivers on Steve McQueen’s Bullitt. This film was slightly before my time- I’m more of the debased Smokey and the […]
1996 Paul Motian interview, part 3: ding ding GA-ding
Third part of my excerpts of Chuck Braman’s 1996 Paul Motian interview. TIPS AND COMMENTS: Chuck: Did any of the musicians you worked with ever offer you any advice or make musical comments that struck […]
1996 Paul Motian interview, part 2: I Don’t Have To Do S**t
Part 2 of my excerpts of Chuck Braman’s 1996 Paul Motian interview. Here Motian discusses his approach to the instrument. NOT THINKING DRUMSET: Chuck: What would you say is the central concept of how you […]
Larry Appelbaum: Before & After with Ed Thigpen
Over at Let’s Cool One, Larry Appelbaum, jazz specialist at the US Library of Congress, does a Before & After (his variation of the blindfold test) with Ed Thigpen, from 2005. My favorite part, on […]
Transcription: Jon Christensen – Long As You Know You’re Living Yours
Here’s Jon Christensen playing some of those ECM backbeats on Long As You Know You’re Living Yours, from Keith Jarrett’s Belonging. I mean to tackle the big one- The Windup- soon, but in the mean […]
1996 Paul Motian interview, part 1: Not-So-Correct
This is another old favorite of mine that’s just been floating around the Internet- you kind of have to look for it to find it- a 1996 Paul Motian interview by Chuck Braman. Not a […]