Four sides, five bucks. I finally took my own advice and got a turntable- a fancy late 80’s Kenwood digital tracking model, my original Sony from 1982 having bitten the final big one after several […]
Month: February 2012
Ballard Jazz Festival dates
I just got my gig dates for the Ballard Jazz Festival in April; I’m making up for my total, shameful absence from the Portland festival by playing two nights as leader. First I’ll be playing […]
Stick Control implied rhythms
I hope you dig all of this Stick Control stuff; I just happen to be working with this book a lot right now. One of my reservations I’ve always had about it- about the way […]
Grooves o’ the day: found items
[UPDATE: Link fixed!] I found these inside an old copy of Mel Bay’s Stage Band Drummers’ Guide I just purchased on Ebay: two pages of beats cut out of 1984 issues of Modern Drummer. I […]
More Stone on the drums
Here’s something timely to the ECM feel post. I’ve been using Stick Control quite a bit in my practicing lately- particularly my application in 5/4 (and a similar thing in 7/4), and in fooling with […]
VOQOTD: listening
Because it bears repeating: Through listening alone you can find ALL the answers. – Jamey Aebersold
A crash course in the ECM feel
Look for the photos with water and the Helvetica font. The “ECM feel”, as it’s now being called, is a style that evolved in the late 1960’s and 70’s, and has since become one of […]
Free jazz handbook
That’s free as in free beer, not as in Albert Ayler. Jamey Aebersold, the godfather- I guess- of jazz playalongs, has a very useful book covering the basics of jazz improvisation of available as a […]
Transcription: Jon Christensen – Dansere
This goes out to my old friend Tim Willcox, who turned me on to this record- Jan Garbarek’s Dansere, with Jon Christensen on drums. Christensen is pretty important to the current thing going on in […]
DBMITW: Jim Gordon
I’m working on a long transcription right now, and am determined to post the entire thing, so for now just enjoy the drumming of studio great Jim Gordon: Several more after the break- also see […]
On newstands now
Oh, my new Drum! Magazine piece– on polyrhythmic uses for Stick Control- should be on newstands now. It’s the April issue, which comes out in February. I don’t pretend to get how that works. You […]