THAT cymbal— listen and copy the sound. Some good advice from former-New York/now-Portland/Jack Dejohnette-sideman/pianist/(and drummer, too) George Colligan, on the importance of your ride cymbal interpretation in jazz. The context is that he was judging […]
Category: George Colligan
Truth and negativity
This has been sitting in my drafts folder awhile— some thoughts on an older piece from George Colligan’s Jazz Truth blog, a collection of thoughts about negativity, positivity, realism, “telling it like it is”, and […]
George Colligan sees Whiplash
Jazz educators respond to the makers of Whiplash, who are represented by the hapless trombonist. UPDATE: Oh, here’s another one, from Jazz Is the Worst, a blog that is attracting a lot of attention in […]
Another list of standards
On George Colligan’s Jazz Truth blog there is a group email sent out by a student who sounds nearly as dickish as I was in college, with the heading: The George Colligan Standards List…LEARN THEM […]
What is HIP?
George Colligan is trying to create a said thing. At his Jazz Truth blog there’s a post highly worth reading, about High Intensity Practicing, or HIP— his phrase— or “practicing REALLY HARD, at a sort […]
On Jack
There’s a great piece on Jack Dejohnette, by someone who plays with him, over at George Colligan’s Jazz Truth blog— go read. Here’s a bonus DBMITW:
Other people write things
OK, clearly this light patch is going to continue for a bit, so let’s see what my blogging compatriots are up to: Let’s lead with pianist George Colligan, who has a few words on practicing: […]
“If I think of something beforehand then I should not play it.”
Pianist George Colligan has posted a really great interview with drummer Jeff Ballard on his blog, Jazz Truth. It’s really hard to excerpt anything from this because it’s all so good; I put in a […]
Jazz Truth interview: Jack Dejohnette
This is unusual: an interview conducted by a non-drummer geekishly opening with a discussion of bass drum technique. Here’s George Colligan of the Jazz Truth blog speaking to Jack Dejohnette. As usual, I’ve edited out […]