“You didn’t get a gig for a weekend, like two days at The Gate. It wasn’t like that. We’d stay at a place a week to three weeks, sometimes seven nights a week and five […]
Category: very occasional quote of the day
Very occasional quote of the day: late arrivers
“There’s a certain kind of people that are more or less late arrivers, you can – even though he was certainly on the scene and known and respected – you can hear him building his […]
Very occasional quote of the day: established discipline
“Bach taught how to find originality within an established discipline— actually how to live.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
Very occasional quote of the day: Fast City
Omar Hakim speaks to Modern Drummer when he was with Weather Report in the mid 80s: RT : How did you learn to play bop so fast? OH : I don’t know. With much difficulty. […]
Very occasional quote of the day: let go lightly
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching “I used to call myself a free jazz drummer, now I just want to play […]
Very occasional quote of the day: spirit
“Now-a-days the technical information is available. A lot of people have it, which proves all the more that it’s not the key to the music. The key is what’s inside, the life you live, and […]
Very occasional quote of the day: random factors
“Life is a cut-up; consciousness is a cut-up. Every time you walk down the street or look out the window, your stream of consciousness is cut by random factors.” — William S. Burroughs, The Adding […]
Very occasional quotes of the day: L.H.O.O.Q.
“[…] I had had Genius pushed at me all through school: Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Ibsen, G.B. Shaw, Chekov, all those dullards. And worse, Mark Twain, Hawthorne, the Brontë sisters, Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, it all just laid […]
VOQOTD: Jon Christensen on technique
From Jon Christensen’s Modern Drummer feature in the early 80s: MD: What makes a drummer interesting to you? What do you look for? JC: Having watched a lot of drummers over the years, you can […]
Very occasional quote of the day: soloing
“My idea of a drum solo is that you play like you sing. It comes from different things you listen to. And the beauty is always in the simple things.” — Kenny Clarke, from 1984 […]
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 […]
Very occasional quote of the day: Buddy’s time
From the bassist Chuck Bergeron who was in Buddy Rich’s band in the 80s: “One afternoon, after a couple of nights of feeling that he wasn’t happy with where I was placing the beat, I […]