Just sharing a little piece of my own development here. From the early 90’s, until I finally submitted to the too-soft, you-don’t-really-want-drums-on-this-gig-do-you craze of the mid-oughts, I played a 20″ Gretsch bass drum with Remo […]
Category: Joey Baron
DBMITW: Joey Baron on Night Music
For those of you too young to remember, there was a live music show on US television at the end of the 80’s,called Night Music. Hosted by saxophonist David Sanborn, it was some of the […]
Other people write things
OK, clearly this light patch is going to continue for a bit, so let’s see what my blogging compatriots are up to: Let’s lead with pianist George Colligan, who has a few words on practicing: […]
Transcription: Joey Baron – Child at Heart
This is one of my favorite pieces of Joey Baron’s playing, from Bill Frisell’s Where In The World, playing some of the more prodigious snare drum backbeats in jazz. The “hip”, backwards, rhythmically-displaced part during […]
Favorite albums: Where In The World by Bill Frisell
Where In The World by Bill Frisell 1991 – Nonesuch B000002H9S Bill Frisell – guitar Hank Roberts – cello Kermit Driscoll – bass Joey Baron – drums I and a lot of other drummers of my […]
Joey Baron master class, last part: Make Music With Whatever You’ve Got
Joey Baron master class at the New School, 1994: last part ELVIN JONES: I worked a gig at the Vanguard with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan, it was like a bebop thing, and Elvin Jones […]
Joey Baron master class, part 4: I Didn’t Go To Music School, I Went To Berklee
Joey Baron master class at the New School, 1994: part 4 PRACTICING: [W]hen I started to practice, I would like put my ear- since I didn’t have people to sit and watch close up, I […]
Joey Baron master class – part 3: I Forced Myself To Kick My Own Butt
Part 3 of Joey Baron’s 1994 New School master class: HOW DO YOU MAKE THE BAND LISTEN? Um, drown them out? No, well, you can’t make somebody listen. You can try to hint, you can […]
Joey Baron master class, part 2: Nothing But Complete Feedback And Noise
Part 2 of the 1994 Joey Baron New School master class, via rec.music.bluenote: PLAYING WITH JOHN ZORN: The challenges for working with a guy like Zorn- it depends. He’s got so many different kinds of […]
Joey Baron master class, part 1 : Paying Your Rent Is High Art
This is part one of a transcript of a master class Joey Baron gave at the New School in 1994. I originally found this in ’98 on the rec.music.bluenote news group, and was just able […]