I love 70’s studio drumming. I was just re-listening to some old Serge Gainsbourg stuff- I made a record of his music in 2009 and did a couple of little Europe tours with it- and […]
Category: cool music
Now available: Book of the Blog 2011 – Vol. 1: Transcriptions
UPDATE: I’m keeping this at the top of the blog this week- scroll down for new stuff. OK, it took me longer than I had hoped to wrap this up, but it’s finally ready to […]
Very occasional quote of the day: on forethought
“[T]his shit is an accident.” – Paul Motian
DBMITW: The Beta Band
Let’s feature somebody with an actual video for once: A few more after the break:
You knew this was coming…
Here’s the latest stupidly-named iteration of my basic paradiddle exercise, this time using 16th note 7s, septuplets, or whatever you want to call them. As always, play through the entire page, then play combinations of […]
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 […]
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 […]
My audio archive!
My audio archive is now up and running. Download tracks from my CDs (including a couple of yet-unreleased projects) and mp3s of my performances. Enjoy! Oh, and be sure to visit Origin Records online for […]
Boomish!
Here’s a cool band that I foungd through MySpace. They’re on the Ocean’s 12 soundtrack and some other hip things. Check them out.