UPDATE: The download link is working now. Here’s a portion of Spirit of Summer, from the album Deodato In Concert. If you don’t know who Deodato is, he’s a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger, who was […]
Month: April 2014
Some observations on an Ari Hoenig performance
A few weeks back I saw Ari Hoenig play in Portland with Kenny Werner’s trio, and scribbled down a few notes after the fact. Hoenig is one of the leading current guys, but I haven’t […]
Groove o’ the day: Idris Muhammad — The Windjammer
Here’s a funk groove with a couple of unusual touches, and a New Orleans flavor, by Idris Muhammad. The tune is The Windjammer, from Grant Green’s 1970 album Green Is Beautiful. On the intro Muhammad […]
A few old photos
Digging through my archives for imagery for the cover of my new record, and rescanning some of my old negatives, today. Here are a few pictures I took in Rome several years ago:
Swing coordination: Dahlgren & Fine format — 01
In the swing section of their book 4-Way Coordination, Marvin Dahlgren and Eliot Fine created a fairly ingenious framework for writing related exercises in multiple time signatures. With my Pages o’ Coordination I’ve been following […]
Priorities
From a drum book with the questionable premise and title of Rhythmic Illusions: There is no Chapter 15, FYI. Don’t let this happen to you.