It took me awhile to get around to watching the Paul Motian documentary Motian In Motion— it’s great, here it is if you haven’t seen it: I liked this comment from Steve Swallow about his […]
Category: Paul Motian
Stewart Copeland: complete clown
Stewart Copeland’s statements about jazz came up on line recently, and I was curious about that, so I dug around and found some things. He dubiously claims to have a jazz background, but as we’ll […]
I played with Coltrane when Elvin couldn’t be found
This is fun— Uncle Paul’s Jazz Closet, the extremely cool web site sharing recordings and other items from Paul Motian’s archives, has scanned and shared Motian’s business calendar from 1965-66. It has all his gigs, […]
Hours
The true struggle comes in the practice room, facing those drums everyday for 10 hours. — Famoudou Don Moye When I was in college I decided that, at some point in their career, everyone who […]
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 […]
Paul Motian podcast
Here’s one you’re going to want to follow: Uncle Paul’s Jazz Closet. The caretaker of Paul Motian’s recorded archives has made a podcast that includes selections from his recordings— released and unreleased, live performances, rehearsal […]
Very occasional quote of the day: Motian on time
“I believe that ‘time’ is always there. I don’t mean a particular pulse, but the time itself. It’s all there somehow like a huge sign that’s up there and it says time. It’s there and […]
Daily best music in the world: Paul Motian Trio / Lisbon ’86
We’re very lucky. When I was first getting into this group around 1989, the only way to see them was to fly to New York, or catch them at a festival in Europe or maybe […]
Paul Motian documentary
Alerting you to a filmmaker raising funds to complete a documentary on the great Paul Motian. It looks pretty awesome, OF COURSE, and includes interviews with Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Gary Peacock, Masabumi Kikuchi, and […]
Masabumi Kikuchi 1939-2015
Pianist Masabumi Kikuchi has died. I mainly knew him through two very beautiful records by Tethered Moon, his band with Paul Motian and Gary Peacock— TM Plays Kurt Weill, and First Meeting. But he did […]
Five awkward conversations with Paul Motian
Here’s something that’s a lot of fun, from Vinnie Sperrazza, a great drummer from New York. I met him recently, when he, and my partner Casey Scott, were performing in Family Album, a new play […]
Transcription: Paul Motian — Trinkle Tinkle
Oh, look, another transcription with no YouTube video— no worries, though, because as a serious listener, you already own this record. This is Paul Motian’s playing during Bill Frisell’s guitar solo on the tune Trinkle […]