UPDATE 2019: Since I just linked to this in my Jack Dejohnette / Tennessee waltz transcription. New preview image coming soon. Now kind of amazed at how little I used to write about these things. […]
Category: jazz
Joey Baron master class – part 3: I Forced Myself To Kick My Own Butt
Part 3 of Joey Baron’s 1994 New School master class: HOW DO YOU MAKE THE BAND LISTEN? Um, drown them out? No, well, you can’t make somebody listen. You can try to hint, you can […]
Kicks and set-ups using Syncopation
Here’s a little method I devised for working on basic big band-style kicks and set-ups, using Ted Reed’s Syncopation. Like many of the ways of working with Reed, it involves some selective reading/interpretation, but in […]
Elvin Jones transcription – Tunji by John Coltrane
Here is another one of my original transcriptions, this time by Elvin Jones. The track is one of my all-time favorites, Tunji, from the album Coltrane by John Coltrane. It’s kind of a small piece […]
March 1985 Modern Drummer interview: John von Ohlen
Interview with big band drummer John von Ohlen from Modern Drummer, March, 1985, by Scott K. Fish, with the many good parts pulled out here, by me. Von Ohlen toured with with the Woody Herman […]
Kenny Clarke on the invention of the ride cymbal
…and modern drumming in general, excerpted from Ed Thigpen’s Kenny Clarke interview in the Feb. 1984 Modern Drummer. I originally posted this last year on the Drummerworld.com forum. From Thigpen’s introduction: It’s understandably difficult for […]
Kerry Campbell at Kicknbaque!
I went down and sat in with Mr. Campbell’s group at the Kicknbaque on NE MLK & Fremont. A very raucus scene with people dancing, rappers sitting in with the group and such. I hadn’t […]
Saxophonist Bob Mover at Mississippi Studios. Got this with the Lomo. This is an old favorite shot of mine, but I’ll probably cut it from the portfolio.
Mark Turner plays with Matt Jorgensen’s group on Origin Record’s Ballard Jazz Walk this month.