Let’s ring in the new year drummer-style, by complaining about a Charley Wilcoxon book maybe two or three of you own, Rolling In Rhythm! Even without the book, there’s something to be learned about archaic […]
Month: December 2021
Analysis: Ed Blackwell – Strength and Courage
Here’s a boiled down version of the Christmas transcription, Strength and Courage, by Joe Lovano. It’s a real crash course in Ed Blackwell— a lot of what he plays on many albums throughout his career […]
EZ Reed method – Jack’s way – 02
Continuing a very easy system I’m using with a younger student— I feel kind of cheated that I wasn’t taught this myself, and that I haven’t been teaching it all these years. This is as […]
Listening: Freddie Waits with Freddie Hubbard
Here’s the album I mentioned in that Freddie Waits Latin post— Fastball – Live at the Left Bank. Part of a cache of live recordings made at a club in Baltimore in the 1960s, discovered […]
Transcription: Ed Blackwell – Strength and Courage
Merry Christmas, everyone. Ho ho hoooeeere’s a LONG Ed Blackwell transcription for you, basically all of Strength And Courage, from Joe Lovano’s trio album Sounds of Joy, along with Alex Cox on the bass. The […]
“Worst drummer ever”
Bookending Sunday’s false prodigies rant, I suppose. Worst drummer ever is title of this video shared by Paul Mason (@tempusdrums) on Twitter. I watched the whole thing, which is more than I can say for […]
Transcription: both versions of Flower Punk
I can’t believe I never posted this. Back in 2017 I transcribed both versions of Frank Zappa’s Flower Punk— the original, played by Jimmy Carl Black, on the Mothers of Invention album We’re Only In […]
CYMBALISTIC: New Holy Grails and more!
CYMBALISTIC: New Holy Grails are in! My stock was getting pretty depleted after a wild couple of weeks of sales. I got some big thin jazz cymbals, if anybody needs a new main axe— though […]
False prodigies
My apologies for the many wordy posts lately. I don’t want to be a words/opinions guy. I’m working on a lot of outside stuff, so I have to post what I have, and that happens […]
Page o’ coordination: Freddie Waits Latin
Last week I picked up kind of a random live Freddie Hubbard CD from Music Millennium— I forget the title, it’s in the car— with Freddie Waits on drums. I’ve been wanting to hear more of […]
What time signature it’s “really” in
A little sidebar on the subject of time signatures, everyone’s favorite topic to be confused about. We’re resolving a lot of little outstanding issues here lately. Time signatures (I prefer the word meter) are a little […]
Seattle meet wrap-up
Well, it was small but mighty. The cymbal meet in Seattle confirmed a lot of things I already felt about the Cymbal & Gong instruments, and gave me a lot of valuable information from some […]