Category: free jazz
Ron Carter on drummers
Here’s an excerpt from an old interview with Ron Carter, from Ethan Iverson’s Do The Math, concerning some of the great drummers Carter has worked with. Absolutely go read the whole conversation: EI: In the […]
Tugboatism!
The Tugboat Brewery is a small venue in Portland which has for years been one of the primary places hosting consistently adventuresome music locally. The reason for this is strictly financial- basically, they didn’t want […]
I love German drummers
First, the aptly-named Jaki Liebezeit of Can: Gunter Summer of Dresden, Germany’s answer to Tony Oxley, or maybe Hans Bennink: Paul Lovens doing a fun thing with Eugene Chadbourne: More after the break: More “Baby” […]
Airto: 1983 Modern Drummer interview
Here’s part of another great Modern Drummer interview, from 1983, with Airto, the famous Brazilian drummer and percussionist. As always, I’ve excerpted the parts that are most important to me, and the headings are mine. […]
1997 BBC interview: Tony Oxley
I could not locate my Tony Oxley Modern Drummer interview, so instead here is a BBC interview with him, in which he discusses his unique set up. There seem to be quite a few of […]
Tony Oxley
Excerpts from a Modern Drummer interview are coming, but in the mean time I thought I’d share some clips of one of the more unique drummers living, the UK’s Tony Oxley. As you can see, […]
Humanizing the hard stuff
Over at Four on the Floor Jon McCaslin has posted several great duo videos featuring Max Roach, including clips with Dizzy Gillespie, Randy Weston, and this with Cecil Taylor: Max really warms up Cecil’s thing, […]