This swings in that avant driving your 1970 Buick Elektra off a cliff at 90 mph kind of way. It’s from a record I used to listen to a lot, but which has been languishing […]
Year: 2012
5s around the drums
I’ve enjoying practicing my previous around-the-drums things so much, I thought I’d run it through a few iterations- similar to my multi-page paradiddle exercise– and see what we get. Today it’s 16th note 5s, using […]
Transcription: Paul Motian – Israel
UPDATE: Download link working now. Here are a couple of famous drum breaks by Paul Motian, from Israel, a 12 bar tune on Bill Evans’ Explorations; Motian and Evans trade choruses before the head out. […]
DBMITW: Tootie Heath
OK, there’s always time to do one of these. Here’s Tootie Heath playing with Dexter Gordon: Tootie was living in LA when I was in school down there- my combo leader Dwight Dickerson was in […]
See you in Seattle!
Heading up to Seattle to play the Ballard Jazz Festival in a moment. Tonight is the Brotherhood of the Drum, hosted by Michael Shrieve, which I’ll be playing with saxophonist Rich Cole and bassist Paul […]
Basic beats
Here’s a rare bone for my younger/beginning-er readers. What we have here is a collection of basic “rock” beats- really they’re good for many/most varieties of popular music using the drum set. The names I’ve […]
Waterloo bullet
All right, people, we are going to be on really, truly, unconscionably light posting through most of the next week as I do my taxes, get it together for, and then go play the Ballard […]
Tom moves
This Elvin thing is turning into a real epic– well, a very small epic, maybe, if you think about it- and I still have to complete the transcription. Here are the tom moves I would […]
Developing Elvin’s Afro-Waltz
Here’s a little something for developing the left hand using the feet-and-cymbal part from Elvin Jones’ groove on John Coltrane’s Your Lady. I always did that type of thing by just going for the sound […]
My new CD is out now
Oh, hey, my new Origin Records CD of obscure tunes by Ornette Coleman, LITTLE PLAYED LITTLE BIRD, is out now and starting to get some radio play. It features my same smoking tenor player from […]