OK, I’m not meaning to turn this into a fair-use abusing, exclusively old Modern Drummer stuff blog, but a longer post is taking its sweet time getting finished, and this is just what I happen […]
Month: March 2012
Go watch now
The Max Roach story, at Four on the Floor. Here’s part 1/7:
1984 MD interview: Ronald Shannon Jackson
Here are some excerpts from an interview I reread many times on the long bus rides on drum corps tour, about the great avant-garde (that’s where he’s typically filed, anyway) drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson. From […]
Favorite albums: Ballads by Paul Bley
Ballads by Paul Bley 1967 – ECM 1010 Paul Bley – piano Gary Peacock, Mark Levinson – bass Barry Altschul – drums Compositions by Annette Peacock This is kind of a funny entry to this […]
DBMITW: Velvet Underground
Oh, hey, it’s Lou Reed’s 70th birthday today. Artists should make their best creative statement with whatever technical skills they have at their disposal at the moment, and Reed is a good example of that. […]
First-inversion paradiddles around the drums
2024 UPDATE: Wow, this page looks like crap. See my new bigger and better page of this. This came up in my own practice today— straight conditioning movements around the drums, using the very traditional […]
More on Pinstripes
The distressed font indicates rockingness to me. Ever since reading T. Bruce Wittet’s piece about the drumming equivalent of the fusion mullet, the Remo Pinstripe, I’ve been sort of half-determined to try to them out […]