Songodiddles

A very small item, adapting a paradiddle inversion (RLLR LRRL) to fit with a songo groove— they fit together quite nicely if you alter one note of the paradiddle. Which doesn’t leave us with a […]

What are we even doing?

Reason as motive, or reason as logic, or reason as a way of life?– George Smiley, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré Listen, this pursuit, playing the drums, getting better at playing the […]

First jazz albums

It wears me out seeing the same four records listed as the first things to get, when first getting into jazz: Moanin’, Saxophone Colossus, Kind Of Blue, some other bleeding obvious record. They’re great. Of […]