Key players: Elvin Jones

This is the first in a series of thumbnail introductions to some important players. Like everything on the blog, this is my personal perspective— there’s no pretense that these are complete historical sketches, or a […]

Zachariah blow by blow

There’s a famous-among-drummers scene from the early 70s film Zachariah— a “psychedelic” cowboy movie with a big musical component. It features a purported drum solo by Elvin Jones, which gets shared around the internet as […]

“How can I understand Elvin Jones?”

This is a question that came up on the Drummerworld forum— Elvin Jones’s playing is quite advanced in a way that inexperienced listeners may be slow to figure out, and that defies explanation. The way […]