Jon McCaslin presents a very core principle of modern jazz drumming, via a lesson from Alan Dawson. The 3/8-within-4/4 polyrhythm has been present in a variety of forms in jazz since the beginning, and became […]
Category: Four on the Floor
A growing community
Following up this post by Mark Feldman, I thought it would be good to direct your attention to my drumming blogroll, in case you somehow are not a regular follower of them already. There are […]
Jon Christiansen @ 4OTF
Go read this post about Jon Christiansen at Four on the Floor– I haven’t even had a chance to read it yet, but it doesn’t matter. One of the great facilitators in drumming, I think […]
Go now
Yikes, another patch of light posting, as I’ve been busy with other projects. Until I can get something posted later in the day, get your rear over to Jon McCaslin’s blog to watch and more […]
Billy Cobham with Horace Silver
Here’s a fun clip of Billy Cobham playing Nutville with Horace Silver in 1968. And there’s Bennie Maupin on tenor. It’s awfully strange seeing Cobham playing a four piece. Tip-o-the-stick to Drum to Life for […]
The only two videos available.
Another great post at Jon McCaslin’s Four on the Floor– the complete Elvin Jones documentary Different Drummer– reminds me of how scarce information used to be. Up through at least the beginning of my college […]
Some of them just can’t count.
There’s a great extended piece over at Four on the Floor on the subject of form in soloing, and how to hip the other musicians to the fact you are adhering to it: Of course […]
Steve Swallow interview @ Trap’d
I haven’t been getting around to the other blogs as much as I should, but here’s something to shake me out of my anti-social torpor: Ted Warren at Trap’d interviewing bassist Steve Swallow. Here’s a […]
Massive Mel Lewis interview
More great stuff from Jon McCaslin at Four on the Floor: extended radio interview of Mel Lewis by Loren Schoenberg, discussing the history of the drums in jazz from Baby Dodds to Elvin Jones. An […]
Transcription: Frankie Dunlop – Bolivar Blues
There is just a ton of good stuff on Jon McCaslin’s Four on the Floor blog– like this little 2010 piece on the great, under-appreciated drummer Frankie Dunlop, who was with Thelonious Monk for part […]