Because it bears repeating: Through listening alone you can find ALL the answers. – Jamey Aebersold
Category: free jazz
Free jazz theater
I just- God. What? I… can’t… (h/t to Michael Griener in Berlin)
Transcription: three Philly Joe intros
Must do shorter, faster posts. That last one took way too many hours. Here: Get the pdf Get Dance of the Infidels | get Hank by Hank Mobley Get I’ll Never Smile Again | get […]
Jack Dejohnette’s Special Edition – 1983
This is timely: several outstanding clips of Jack Dejohnette’s Special Edition which I hadn’t seen before just came up on Reddit: h/t to Goatthroat Three more screaming parts after the break:
More Motian
Photo by T. Bruce Wittet From T. Bruce Wittet’s site– which Google has done a good job hiding from me until now- a couple of very personal posts, one on interviewing Motian, and one about […]
Something key
Jon McCaslin presents a very core principle of modern jazz drumming, via a lesson from Alan Dawson. The 3/8-within-4/4 polyrhythm has been present in a variety of forms in jazz since the beginning, and became […]
Occasional Blakey: Afrique
While I put myself back together after a long holiday in Seattle with the family, here’s a favorite old Art Blakey track, Afrique, from the album Witch Doctor, written by Lee Morgan. Buy it. Purely […]
Paul Motian 1931-2011
Update 2 – more notices: Jazz Times obituary Said saxophonist Joe Lovano, who worked often with Motian over the past three decades, “Paul was a strong, charismatic character, with a lot of energy and passion. […]
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 […]
Masahiko Togashi
Here’s a very interesting drummer you don’t hear much about- Masahiko Togashi. In the early 00’s I heard a record he made with Don Cherry and Charlie Haden, and dug his very “drummy” style, but […]
Barry Altschul interview
Barry Altschul has been on my mind a lot lately- this performance kind of got stuck in my head, plus I was listening to a lot of Paul Bley before my recording session last week– […]
What I was doing yesterday
Here’s one of the rough mixes from yesterday’s session- Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman. I hadn’t planned on recording this tune, and we didn’t rehearse it, but we had nine tunes in the can, and a […]