It’s been a heckuva week- between releasing a new CD, playing the Ballard Jazz Festival, taxes, and a simultaneous plumbing and roof-leaking emergency in the little rental unit behind my home- and I now need […]
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Waterloo bullet
All right, people, we are going to be on really, truly, unconscionably light posting through most of the next week as I do my taxes, get it together for, and then go play the Ballard […]
My new CD is out now
Oh, hey, my new Origin Records CD of obscure tunes by Ornette Coleman, LITTLE PLAYED LITTLE BIRD, is out now and starting to get some radio play. It features my same smoking tenor player from […]
That was fast
I received my Book of the Blog order yesterday- remarkably fast turnaround from “thing on my computer” to “real paper book”, considering I only completed it and placed my order on Monday. Lulu.com makes a […]
Now available: Book of the Blog 2011 – Vol. 1: Transcriptions
UPDATE: I’m keeping this at the top of the blog this week- scroll down for new stuff. OK, it took me longer than I had hoped to wrap this up, but it’s finally ready to […]
Really on the stands for real this time.
By the way, my new Drum! Magazine piece, Cross Rhythms Using Stone, is on the stands now- for real. Not a false alarm. Four action-packed pages, and we even made the cover. In the April, […]
Ballard Jazz Festival dates
I just got my gig dates for the Ballard Jazz Festival in April; I’m making up for my total, shameful absence from the Portland festival by playing two nights as leader. First I’ll be playing […]
Another Drum! Magazine piece
Oh, hey, it looks like Drum! Magazine is going to publish another piece of mine, “Cross Rhythms Using Stone”, which outlines a polyrhythmic application for using the 3/8 portions of Stick Control in 4/4, on […]
Making bird drawings
Just so you know I haven’t forgotten about you- I’m seeing a lot of great posts from Trap’d, FOTF, and The Melodic Drummer, and Dave Aldridge and feeling bad that I’m posting kind of sparsely […]
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. […]
March 1: Stanton Moore DVD drawing for my followers
That’s right, become a follower of Cruise Ship Drummer! during the month of February and you will be automatically entered in a drawing for a free copy of Stanton Moore’s excellent new Groove Alchemy DVD. […]