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Daily best music in the world: Art Ensemble of Chicago – 1983

  • August 29, 2024
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While I figure out how to work Musescore, here’s some Art Ensemble of Chicago. My German friends told an interesting story last year about how they got all of this Paiste gear… by some rather […]

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Reassessing some free jazz drummers

  • June 20, 2022
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There was a period of about five years where I was listening to a lot of early free jazz— Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp. Ornette (and his circle) is the only one […]

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Hours

  • May 7, 2018
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The true struggle comes in the practice room, facing those drums everyday for 10 hours. — Famoudou Don Moye When I was in college I decided that, at some point in their career, everyone who […]

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Transcription: Famoudou Don Moye — Funky Aeco

  • May 24, 2015
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I was going to take care of some other business today, but then I saw that it’s Famoudou Don Moye’s birthday, and wanted to pay tribute by giving one of my favorite things of his […]

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