It’s not no deep fuckin’ secret! People talk about this shit like it’s some kind of… – Paul Motian From jazz writer Ted Panken, several unedited interviews with Paul Motian— he posted this in 2014, […]
Category: Ted Panken
Jeff Watts on Billy Higgins
This is from Ted Panken’s memorial drummers’ roundtable on Billy Higgins, broadcast on WKCR after Billy Higgins’s death in 2001. Here Jeff Watts talks about what Higgins meant to him: I first began to collect […]
Ed Blackwell on playing with Monk
Another choice bit from Ted Panken’s interview with Blackwell— Blackwell played with Monk in 1972: I’ll tell you what happened with Monk. During the course of the gig, after about a week… He used to […]
Ed Blackwell on playing the Five Spot with Ornette
From Ted Panken’s 1986 interview with Ed Blackwell on WKCR NY: So when you got to New York, you found yourself in the midst of the scene that was shaking New York’s art community to […]
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 […]