Here are some exciting drummer-led things I found while paying a visit to the thriving community of record-collecting bloggers dedicated to ripping out-of-print LPs and making them available for download. Apparently no one wants to […]
Category: Elvin Jones
Rothman book recommendations
While the interview is fresh, I want to give my recommendations for Joel Rothman book purchases. God knows I haven’t seen his entire catalog, but these are very strong books: Basic Drumming – An everything […]
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 […]
The Ultimate
Here’s The Ultimate Elvin Jones, one of the first Elvin records I ever got. I think it was out of print at the time, and I was really lucky to find an LP copy (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 […]
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 […]
Jimmy Cobb on Trane
This is part of Jazz Onlines’s “Tranumentary”, discussions about John Coltrane, mostly with people who played with him or knew him (though not all- a surprising inclusion is Anton Fig of the David Letterman band). […]
Transcription: Three Intros
Another fast little project- drum intros from three of my favorite players, tracks, and albums: Paul Motian on Resistor, from Bill Frisell’s Rambler, Roy Haynes on H & H, from Pat Metheny’s Question And Answer, […]
Transcription by Steve Korn: Elvin Jones – Summertime
Here’s an old favorite- Elvin Jones’ solo on the tune Summertime, from John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things record. I think this is one of the first Elvin things I attempted to transcribe back in 1988 […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Soul Eyes
Another transcription from the archives- Elvin Jones playing brushes on Soul Eyes, from the album Coltrane, by John Coltrane. The transcription is of the piano and tenor solos; it’s written in the four of the […]
Elvin Jones analysis – Big Nick
Here’s a little analysis- or catalog of ideas- extracted from my transcription of Elvin Jones playing on Big Nick, from Coltrane’s album with Duke Ellington. It’s a good introduction to Elvin’s playing for novice drummers- […]
Joey Baron master class, last part: Make Music With Whatever You’ve Got
Joey Baron master class at the New School, 1994: last part ELVIN JONES: I worked a gig at the Vanguard with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan, it was like a bebop thing, and Elvin Jones […]