Still light posting, but listening to the Mel Lewis history of jazz drums interview and they’re discussing a favorite move of Gene Krupa’s- during a shout chorus leaving a dramatic silence where there would normally […]
Category: jazz
Why we transcribe
Yes, I look the same when I’m transcribing as Duke did when he was copying parts- immaculately-coifed, reclining in my suit surrounded by reams of parchment. I’m a pretty big transcriber, and I thought I […]
Transcription: Joey Baron – Child at Heart
This is one of my favorite pieces of Joey Baron’s playing, from Bill Frisell’s Where In The World, playing some of the more prodigious snare drum backbeats in jazz. The “hip”, backwards, rhythmically-displaced part during […]
Bill Bruford on Joe Morello and Brubeck
Another nice podcast from Jazz Online, this with King Crimson and Yes drummer Bill Bruford discussing Joe Morello and Dave Brubeck’s Time Out. The conversation is from 2009, when that album turned 50, but is […]
A lot of hip LP covers
Jazz specialist for the US Library of Congress, writer, and blogger Larry Appelbaum has a couple of huge galleries of LP covers which you should be looking at right now. Emphasis is on jazz of […]
More metric modulation: 4:3 warm-ups and more
My last hastily-slapped together piece on 4:3 metric modulation was such a hit with my Drummerworld.com poeple, that I thought I should backfill some preparatory exercises for it. Here the emphasis is on keeping the […]
Andrew Cyrille interview by Ted Panken
Here’s another in my series of choice, drummer-relevant bits of other people’s interviews, this time with Andrew Cyrille, by Ted Panken: Ted Panken: Are there different challenges for you in dealing with, let’s say, the […]
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, […]
Basic big band set-ups
Another in the recent series of easy stuff, here is a page of basic set-ups for ensemble kicks on the & of 4. You can apply these to my earlier piece, Kicks and Set-ups Using […]