This is something I’ve been working with daily for several weeks now- getting the usual jazz coordination/comping stuff together with the Afro-Cuban/Bembe/Naningo bell pattern. It’s pretty tricky, and it’s a good idea to do it […]
Category: music
Gainsbourg biopic
The film on the life of French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg (“GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE” Heh.), which was just being released in Europe after my last tour over there in 2010, is about to come out […]
Another way of counting odd meters
Here’s something new to me- though for all I know it’s a common thing- for stupid dogmatic reasons I for years stayed pretty willfully ignorant about the finer points of playing in odd meters. Probably […]
DBMITW: Young Man Blues
Another one of these was dropped in my lap, so I guess I’ll continue this feature du jour. A different performance of the standout track from Live at Leeds:
J.C. Moses
Ted @ Trap’d mentions and posts audio from a drummer I haven’t thought of in awhile- J.C. Moses, drummer with Archie Shepp’s New York Contemporary Five, Andrew Hill, and Sam Rivers, among other people. Along […]
Favorite albums: Billy Higgins
I guess I could’ve called this Higgins and Haden. These are four records from what is for me the classic phase of Higgins’ career in terms of his sound- he’s got that heavy-ish rivet cymbal […]
Podcast – Episode 4: Charlie Parker heads
Today’s podcast is a selection of practice loops made from the heads of well-known Charlie Parker tunes: Billie’s Bounce Yardbird Suite Donna Lee Cheryl Quasimodo Scrapple from the Apple Au Privave Crazeology (actually by Bud […]
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 […]
Everybody Paice out
A couple of old favorites from the heyday of the cowbell and the four-stroke ruff down the drums ending on the bass drum (there’s got to be a better name for that lick): Get Lay […]
Dispatches
Not that easy a life. Here’s a note I received from a British drummer currently working on a ship in the Mediterranean: “I’m presently doing a stint as a cruise drummer in the Med and […]
I am so smart
This from The Telegraph, a couple of years ago: ‘Drummers are natural intellectuals’ Drummers are better known for their beats than their brain power, but research has suggested that they might actually be natural intellectuals. […]