Cymbal, and player, and stick, and microphone. UPDATE: It took a little longer than I thought, but the cymbal “Eloi” mentioned later in the piece has been sold. I’m sure there will be others. In […]
Category: Tony Williams
Tony clichés
This is an interesting recording, with a strange performance by a great drummer, Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith— it consists almost entirely of Tony Williams clichés. When I heard this in a record store I realized I […]
Tony Williams comping
Here’s a nice record I would’ve have liked to have known about 30 years ago, on which Charles Lloyd is rocking a Jimmy Giuffre kind of vibe. It’s Of Course, Of Course, and it was recorded […]
New e-book: 5 Tony Williams Transcriptions
Another new e-book— not new to my long time readers, because most of the contents have been shared here before. Like the title says, it’s 5 Tony Williams transcriptions, re-proofed and reformatted for tablets and […]
Daily best music in the world: OH S___
In writing about playing the drums, you tend to focus on what is definable. You write the things you can say for sure, and you don’t write about things you can’t. That can give people […]
EZ Tony Williams-like method
EZ-ish. The concept is extremely simple, anyway. Scarcely worth writing up, but here it is. And when I say Tony Williams-like, I mean “it reminds me of one thing he kind of did on a […]
Figure and fills — Cantaloupe Island
Here’s another practice loop, with a page of things to play with it. What I’ve done here is sample two measures from Herbie Hancock’s Cantaloupe Island, and write out a page of fills to fit […]
Daily best music in the world: Splash
Slow week. Of course we can’t just have a continuous onslaught of new stuff— I don’t write just to hear myself bloviate, and I’ve already put on the blog far more information than I was […]
Transcription: Tony Williams — Lopsy Lu
2021 UPDATE: See my new listening guide for this track. Here’s the third of four big-deal transcriptions I have lined up for the fund raiser. I was going to save this for next week, but […]
Groove o’ the day: Tony Williams — Lopsy Lu
This is a super-classic bit of 70s fusion, from Stanley Clarke’s first self-titled solo record, with drumming by Tony Williams. I got this album used for 3 bucks around 1985, when I was buying everything […]
Mike Clark on Elvin, Tony
I stumbled across these interviews with Mike Clark, talking about all the stuff players care about about Elvin Jones and Tony Williams: Part 1 on Elvin: Here’s part 2: The interviews on Tony Williams are […]
Transcription: Tony Williams — Seven Steps to Heaven, trumpet solo
Continuing with our Seven Steps To Heaven transcription in installments, here is Tony Wiliams’s playing behind Miles Davis’s solo, starting at 0:43, on the version of the tune from the album Four & More: The […]