I stumbled across these interviews with Mike Clark, talking about all the stuff players care about about Elvin Jones and Tony Williams: Part 1 on Elvin: Here’s part 2: The interviews on Tony Williams are […]
Category: Mike Clarke
DBMITW: Headhunters
Here’s something special for the new year: Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters— the Thrust lineup, with Mike Clark— playing live in Europe in 1974: There’s another one which has embedding disabled, so you’ll have to click through to […]
Groove o’ the day: Death Wish — Mike Clark
I told you I mean to do a lot of these this year– hopefully enough to do a dedicated book of them early in 2013. Today we’ve got Mike Clark playing with Herbie Hancock on […]
Groove o’ the day: Palm Grease
Here’s another hugely famous piece of drumming– one of the best-known of the 70’s– by Mike Clarke on the tune Palm Grease from the Herbie Hancock album Thrust: YouTube audio after the break: