It looks like we’ll be seeing a small shift in emphasis, here, as I’ve set up a studio, and am painting again after about a ten year hiatus— plus another few years when I was […]
Year: 2015
Jazz glossary
Here’s something useful, from A Passion For Jazz: an online glossary of jazz terms. It’s not perfect. The entry for the word jive, for example: Jive: the jargon of hipsters. Jive is a widely used […]
Flam accents in 7/8 — same-handed
Well, it’s been a whirlwind of OTHER STUFF lately, hence the lack of posts— I won’t bore you with that. This came up while working with our recent John Zorn loop in 7/8; it’s a […]
Very occasional quote of the day: remember this
“The obstacle is the path.” — Zen proverb, via the Zen proverbs Twitter feed The “purpose” of Zen is not to be a performance-enhancer, but this is a good one to remember in the practice […]
Your bio sucks. My bio sucks.
OBLIGATORY TENUOUSLY-RELATED IMAGE AND CAPTION: Boilerplate should never be anything but a creepy, late-Victorian, steampunkish, fictional robot in your life— it has NO PLACE in your bio! Via Ted Gioia on Twitter, here’s a good piece […]
Daily best music in the world: driving music
Long day yesterday driving to the Oregon coast for a recording session, and home again. I did bring along one of my favorite things ever, Before We Were Born, by Bill Frisell. We used to […]
Empty complaining about something we should never have expected to be any good anyway
CHICK WEBB, ladies and gentlemen. Apparently a white, 19th century coke-slag magnate. If you want to get your blood pressure up— not least because the site is so poorly coded it may crash your browser— […]
Grooves o’ the day: Rumproller
Eaaasing back into blogging after an eventful couple of weeks, with some grooves by Billy Higgins, from Lee Morgan’s album The Rumproller. First, the groove from the title track: Often he’ll accent the & of […]
Rock beats displaced
You’re not going to be seeing much of me for a few days— I’m getting married tomorrow, I’ve got a pre-wedding party today, then a micro-honeymoon at the Oregon coast Wednesday through Friday (the real […]
Milton Resnick
The painter Milton Resnick (1917-2004) was one of the first generation of New York Abstract-Expressionist painters— a contemporary of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and the rest— and the longest-lived of […]
Drumming myths
A decent piece from the Modern Drummer site— 12 Drumming Myths Debunked. Here are the entries that interest me, with my comments on them: 2. Mistakes are always bad. Honor thy mistakes with repetition—I think […]
Rhythms in 7/4
Here’s a page of basic rhythms in 7/4 to go with yesterday’s practice loop. The vamp on the loop is phrased in 3+2+2/4, so I’ve given a Ted Reed-style guide part on the bass drum line […]