Victor Lewis, via Ted Warren at Trap’d: Warren said Victor got his shoulder messed up and won’t be able to play for a while- you can visit him on Facebook to send him your best […]
Month: January 2011
Favorite albums: Dance by Paul Motian
New feature: I’ll mention records that have meant a lot to me and write a little bit about them. Writing about musical experiences is not my thing, and I am not a jazz critic, so […]
Joey Baron master class, last part: Make Music With Whatever You’ve Got
Joey Baron master class at the New School, 1994: last part ELVIN JONES: I worked a gig at the Vanguard with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan, it was like a bebop thing, and Elvin Jones […]
Joey Baron master class, part 4: I Didn’t Go To Music School, I Went To Berklee
Joey Baron master class at the New School, 1994: part 4 PRACTICING: [W]hen I started to practice, I would like put my ear- since I didn’t have people to sit and watch close up, I […]
The Real Diana
Following up on my posts on Android’s Diana emulator app, Retro Camera, I wanted to put up some examples of the real thing, taken in Rome in 2006 and Paris in 2009. These are all […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Since You Asked
UPDATE 2019: Since I just linked to this in my Jack Dejohnette / Tennessee waltz transcription. New preview image coming soon. Now kind of amazed at how little I used to write about these things. […]
Joey Baron master class – part 3: I Forced Myself To Kick My Own Butt
Part 3 of Joey Baron’s 1994 New School master class: HOW DO YOU MAKE THE BAND LISTEN? Um, drown them out? No, well, you can’t make somebody listen. You can try to hint, you can […]
Joey Baron master class, part 2: Nothing But Complete Feedback And Noise
Part 2 of the 1994 Joey Baron New School master class, via rec.music.bluenote: PLAYING WITH JOHN ZORN: The challenges for working with a guy like Zorn- it depends. He’s got so many different kinds of […]
Live jazz recordings!
Here are a couple of very special things from You Are What You Hear (“a live jazz blog”)- free, downloadable live recordings of Gateway (John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack Dejohnette) at the Blue Note […]
Joey Baron master class, part 1 : Paying Your Rent Is High Art
This is part one of a transcript of a master class Joey Baron gave at the New School in 1994. I originally found this in ’98 on the rec.music.bluenote news group, and was just able […]
NY Times: Freelance Musicians Hear Mournful Coda as the Jobs Dry Up
This is via the blog Jazztruth by pianist George Colligan- a NY Times story about the collapse of the freelance market for classical musicians in New York; much of it also applies to jazz musicians, […]
Kicks and set-ups using Syncopation
Here’s a little method I devised for working on basic big band-style kicks and set-ups, using Ted Reed’s Syncopation. Like many of the ways of working with Reed, it involves some selective reading/interpretation, but in […]