“Miles could tell me the things he wanted from the drums but I didn’t let him tell me how to play them.”
— Jimmy Cobb, 1979 interview by Rick Mattingly
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Here’s part of another great interview by the Bad Plus’ Ethan Iverson, this time with Billy Hart: Miles and Tony Tony, for his age, seemed to me more thorough in the study of the jazz […]
“I think the best way to improve your time, is to play with musicians that have good time. Getting the feeling for how its supposed to be and working on it will improve time. But […]
Page o’ coordination based on Jimmy Cobb’s playing on the tune Not A Tear, played by Wynton Kelly. The main groove Cobb plays on this tune is actually identical to the groove from Andrew Hill’s […]