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 Sorry for the lack of posts– I have a ton of stuff lined up, including a big sale on cymbals, but there’s a massive internet service outage in Portland thanks to an ice storm. And […]

 Well, that was the longest week of my life. I’m still recovering, and after I’ve recovered I probably won’t want to write about this. I hope everyone is celebrating the electoral defeat of the most […]

2019 basically = billionaire blood diamond heir rampages around Los Angeles making up new  traffic laws to promote downright ugly vanity truck. Let’s take a break from me inching painfully towards completion of the new 2019 Book of […]

After Ginger Baker finally died the other day, I was thinking about his playing, and the playing of some of the other big drummers to come out of the late 60s. I listened to a […]

UPDATE: I’m going to keep bumping this to the top of the site this week, but I will be posting every day, so scroll down for new content. It has been a long time since […]

Wow, after weeks in airline booking hell, we actually made it to Germany– to Berlin, the city I actually bought the tickets for, and only a day late. I’ll tell you the story about what […]

I have to pay for that new camera, so I’m selling a few cymbals I haven’t been using lately: SOLD – 20″ Paiste 602 Heavy (blue label) SOLD – 20″ Sabian Jack Dejohnette Signature Ride […]

Oh, and happy 4th of July. Get the transcription of Billy Higgins’s playing on this.

Slow posting for a few days, but if you’re in a giving mood, there’s a very talented young Portland drummer named Domo Branch who needs some help getting to the Centrum and Stanford jazz camps. […]

Just a quick update: I know little is happening on the surface this week, but I’m in the midst of a lot of work on better monetizing the blog. You’ll notice we’ve added some Amazon […]

Hey, it just occurred to me: I should have more Skype students than I do. I have plenty of followers, plenty of daily visitors, plenty of book-purchasers, and a fair number of  donors at fund […]

Wow, posting has really slowed down to a crawl here in December. Truth is, I got way too ambitious with some transcription projects, and never got them finished. We’ll see if I can get at […]