Back to posting drum stuff after a shocking, depressing last week, with the massacre of a lot of innocent humans in New Zealand. Here’s some music for anyone still struggling to find their equilibrium. I was […]
Month: March 2019
Daily best music in the world: Oval
You know what I’m tired of? Music that sounds like it was created with a free Android app. So here is one of my favorite albums in the late 90s: 94 Diskont by the German […]
From the zone: brush things
A little item from Ted Warren, author of the excellent Trap’d blog, who is clearly not suffering from any kind of OCD, having written this upside down on some kind of assignment sheet. I post so […]
Mike Clark gig and clinic
A few thoughts and observations relating to a Mike Clark / Donald Harrison gig and clinic in Portland on Sunday and Monday: First: It continues to impress me that everybody knows that same stuff. Whether […]
Hemiola funk series – basic logic
I want to walk through the logic of this hemiola funk series of posts— at least the logic of one part of it, which may be difficult to see on playing through the materials. I […]
CYMBALISTIC: Describing cymbal sounds
This is a new post on the Cymbalistic blog. I do post good stuff there (I think) which I don’t share on this blog, so I encourage you do scroll through and check in regularly. […]
Groove o’ the day: Hot Rod
Update: There is some dispute as to whether the drummer here is actually Idris Muhammad, which would not surprise me at all, because this is the kind of stuff he plays. This is from a […]
Transcription: Tony Williams – Time of the Barracudas
From the Miles Davis album Quiet Nights, with conducted and arranged by Gil Evans. The tune is a Miles/Gil classic, and appears as a bonus track on the 1997 reissue of this album. The version […]
CYMBALISTIC: new videos are UP
Cymbalistic news: I have posted videos for the latest batch of new Cymbal & Gong cymbals on the Cymbalistic site. We’ve added: • 22″ Holy Grail Jazz Ride • Two 20″ Holy Grail Jazz Rides • […]
I played with Coltrane when Elvin couldn’t be found
This is fun— Uncle Paul’s Jazz Closet, the extremely cool web site sharing recordings and other items from Paul Motian’s archives, has scanned and shared Motian’s business calendar from 1965-66. It has all his gigs, […]
Hemiola funk series – SB-BS
I like this series. It’s a little half-baked, and I’ll probably have to rewrite it eventually, but I feel we’re closing in on something. A theory of rhythm and playing the drumset not based on […]