From Hal Galper on Facebook: “I’d heard a recording of an interview with Coleman Hawkins that stuck in my brain. He said you had to go to the city twice. The first time to learn […]
Category: career
Best books: The Drummer’s/Musician’s Lifeline
Looking at two little books co-authored by Peter Erskine and Dave Black— The Drummer’s Lifeline, and The Musician’s Lifeline, subtitled, respectively, as Quick Fixes, Hacks, And Tips Of The Trade, and Advice For All Musicians, […]
Bruce Gilden, a street photographer
A few videos of Bruce Gilden, a New York photographer. He’s known as a street photographer, and a rather invasive one. He gets right up in people’s faces and photographs them with a flash. It […]
Bears
Not quite the sense of menace I was hoping for, but that’ll have to do… One of the effects of this new Internet wonderland of information is that now everyone feels they are in competition […]
…or, to just fail.
I would add: – Think of your work as being in competition with that of all artists, everywhere, at all levels of the business, past and present. – Imagine that your every creative move and […]
Making any money in jazz
Dollar bill. This is something I wrote last week, but decided against posting, as it can be kind of a downer. I have actually officially banned from my presence discussion of how much being a […]
Kenny Washington overheard
Or the cyber-equivalent. Mark Feldman at the Bang! the drum school blog features a Facebook post by jazz drummer and scholar Kenny Washington, in response to a question about how to take one’s drumming “to […]
Dispatches
Not that easy a life. Here’s a note I received from a British drummer currently working on a ship in the Mediterranean: “I’m presently doing a stint as a cruise drummer in the Med and […]
Joey Baron master class, part 1 : Paying Your Rent Is High Art
This is part one of a transcript of a master class Joey Baron gave at the New School in 1994. I originally found this in ’98 on the rec.music.bluenote news group, and was just able […]
March 1985 Modern Drummer interview: John von Ohlen
Interview with big band drummer John von Ohlen from Modern Drummer, March, 1985, by Scott K. Fish, with the many good parts pulled out here, by me. Von Ohlen toured with with the Woody Herman […]