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 […]
Category: interview
Bill Evans speaks
Here’s a nice, timely (given the last post) find from Ted at Trap’d: pianist Bill Evans talking at length about music:
My Vinnie Year – part 2 – Percussioner magazine interview
Sometimes I think the whole purpose of this blog is just for me to gather all the things I ever did, heard, read, or listened to about the drums a put them in one little […]
My Vinnie Year – part 1 – “My left hand is kind of funky.”
It was actually more like three or four years closely studying Vinnie Colaiuta’s playing, but this sounds better. Anyway, ’87 was when I was really deep in it- or so I thought- and he happened […]
Day of the Podcasts! Airto on Jake Feinberg’s show
They just keep coming. Here Jake Feinberg (of the great interviews with the likes of Mickey Roker, Richard Davis, Dick Berk, and much more) talks to Airto, who I’ve been listening to and thinking about […]
Light patch
Here are some good things to look at while I have a couple of busy days. I haven’t had a lot of time for much serious book learnin’ or ritin’ recently, but I’ll have some […]
Dick Berk interview on the Jake Feinberg Show
Another great interview from the Jake Feinberg show, this time with Dick Berk of the prodigious ride cymbal. Dick was Billie Holliday’s last drummer (after Jo Jones left the group), in a band that also […]
Vinnie Colaiuta interview – Percussive Notes, 1995
Vinnie with friend, c. 1982. From Vinnie Colaiuta’s web site, an interview from 1995 issue of Percussive Notes, by Rick Mattingly. My other big Vinnie thing on the blog is my Packard Goose transcription, which […]
Drummer/jazz musician interview archive
Here’s something well worth spending a few hours with- the podcast archive of the Jake Feinberg Show. Includes interviews with drummers Mickey Roker, and Ndugu Leon Chancler, as well as LA studio percussionist Emil Richards, […]
1984 Modern Drummer interview: Andy Newmark
Here are some excerpts from another great Modern Drummer interview from my youth, this time with session drummer Andy Newmark, drummer on Sly Stone’s Fresh, John Lennon’s Double Fantasy, David Bowie’s Young Americans, and much […]
Interview: drum author Joel Rothman
[UPDATED 5/16 – Something I had to add to the piece came up in my correspondence with Mr. Rothman. See the new section labeled “PROFIT”] Joel Rothman is one of the more mysterious figures in […]
Steve Swallow interview @ Trap’d
I haven’t been getting around to the other blogs as much as I should, but here’s something to shake me out of my anti-social torpor: Ted Warren at Trap’d interviewing bassist Steve Swallow. Here’s a […]