Some of my practice loops are as much for inspiration as they are about learning a style or practicing drum ideas, or whatever— for example, the Sivad loop or the Attica Blues loop. Here’s another one […]
Category: Don Cherry
Ornette live in ’58
Here’s something remarkable: Ornette Coleman recorded live in LA in 1958, just before his big national exposure in New York. The band includes the musicians in his famous quartet: Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy […]
DBMITW: Cherry / Blackwell / Gurtu / Wolcott / Shankar
From the same YouTube user who posted yesterday’s Ed Blackwell videos, here’s a totally amazing concert recording of Don Cherry playing in Neuwied, Germany, with Ed Blackwell, Lakshmi Shankar, Colin Wolcott, and Trilok Gurtu, probably […]
Billy’s best
Here’s some more essential Billy Higgins listening for you. I hesitate to declare anything the best— because a) the man played on over 700 albums, of which I have been exposed to, what, 5-7%? And […]
Busy
Busy all day doing tour-related junk, and transcribing charts– Blood by Paul Bley, Priestess by Billy Harper, following Gil Evans’s arrangement, and a couple of Don Cherry tunes I used to play in the 90’s. […]
Groove o’ the day: Ed Blackwell
Here’s another simple afro feel played by Ed Blackwell on Mu, the duo record with Don Cherry. It’s also available on the Cherry album Cool. This also could’ve been written as two measures of 3/4 […]
Masahiko Togashi
Here’s a very interesting drummer you don’t hear much about- Masahiko Togashi. In the early 00’s I heard a record he made with Don Cherry and Charlie Haden, and dug his very “drummy” style, but […]
Different values
I usually keep just one CD in my car for days or occasionally weeks at a time- recently for me it’s been Don Cherry’s Art Deco, an old favorite that had been languishing in the […]
Favorite albums: Billy Higgins
I guess I could’ve called this Higgins and Haden. These are four records from what is for me the classic phase of Higgins’ career in terms of his sound- he’s got that heavy-ish rivet cymbal […]
Old & New Dreams – 1980 lecture/demonstration
From Warren Senders at Running Gamak, here is audio and a transcript of a clinic given at Harvard by Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell) during their 1980 […]