This series is difficult for me, because it means writing a lot of words about somebody’s playing, at which I am not good. I never felt a need to put it into words. It also […]
Category: key players
Let’s talk about Billy Cobham
I was working on this post about Billy Cobham some weeks ago, and felt I couldn’t finish it— it’s not that easy to write a complete portrait of the playing of a great drummer. Try […]
Key players: Paul Motian
Hey, let’s continue this series I started last year. When I first started getting into him 25 years ago, I was a little bit perplexed by him; no drummers I knew were into him; he […]
Key players: Elvin Jones
This is the first in a series of thumbnail introductions to some important players. Like everything on the blog, this is my personal perspective— there’s no pretense that these are complete historical sketches, or a […]