Here are some good things to look at while I have a couple of busy days. I haven’t had a lot of time for much serious book learnin’ or ritin’ recently, but I’ll have some substantive things coming up. There’s a Tony Allen transcription that will take about five minutes to finish, when I have the time. Meanwhile:
Interview with Montreal drummer Andre White @ Four on the Floor.
Dueling rudiments-of-the-moment at Trap’d and FOTF.
Via Larry Appelbaum, here’s a piece where several jazz writers are asked “Do jazz critics need to know how to play jazz?”
Destination Out gives us Lost Tones, The Unheard Sun Ra parts one and two, complete with free sample mp3s.