Still more of Ed Blackwell’s performance on the tune Togo, from the album Old And New Dreams. Michael Griener in Berlin has helpfully informed me in the comments that a transcription of this entire performance […]
Category: Ed Blackwell
Groove o’ the day: Ed Blackwell — more Togo
Another Ed Blackwell groove today, from a little deeper in the same tune as the last GOTD, Togo, from the self-titled Old And New Dreams on ECM (there’s also one on the Black Saint label, […]
Groove o’ the day: Ed Blackwell – another 6/8
UPDATE: Whoops, a typo, gitoutcher pencils– scratch that last tom note in the second measure. Here’s another entry in my little project of cataloging as many of Ed Blackwell’s grooves as I can figure out. […]
Groove o’ the day: T & T, too
While you’re feverishly working on yesterday’s GOTD by Ed Blackwell, allow me to throw at you a similar version of the same groove from later in the tune, which again is T & T by […]
Groove o’ the Day: Ed Blackwell – T & T
Here’s another Ed Blackwell groove, from the intro to Ornette Coleman’s T & T, off the album Ornette: For clarity, here is the same groove written as separate rhythms, without the bass drum: We’ll be […]
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 […]
Groove o’ the day: Ed Blackwell stick and brush
This is one of my favorite things ever, anywhere: Ed Blackwell’s opening groove on Charlie Haden’s tune Chairman Mao from the first self-titled Old And New Dreams record, on Black Saint (there’s another one on […]
A treasure trove: WKCR Soundscape project
I just googled this up, from the WKCR 89.9 New York radio site: a duo performance by Ed Blackwell and saxophonist Charles Brackeen, recorded in 1980 at: Soundscape[,] a New York performance venue founded and […]
The Ed Blackwell story
From Branford Marsalis’ NPR show Jazz Set, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Joe Lovano, Max Roach and others talk about Ed Blackwell. Glad to see this resurface- I remember being glued to this, and […]
I get interviewed
Oregon Music News’ Tom D’Antoni talks to me about my current project outside the Blue Monk:
All About Jazz interview: Alvin Fielder
Here are some extended excerpts of an Allaboutjazz.com interview by Clifford Allen with drummer Alvin Fielder. Fielder was a student of Ed Blackwell’s, and a founding member of AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative […]
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 […]