I have no idea what got me thinking about this, as I haven’t been painting recently, but it’s my blog so what the hell: Prussian blue is an earthy, ferric-looking blue that reminds me of […]
Month: February 2011
Transcription: Roy Haynes – Morpheus
That does it- I may just switch over to an all-transcription blog- it probably took me less time to do this transcription than it will take to write an intro that doesn’t make me sound […]
Jo Jones in the ’70’s
I stumbled across this piece about Papa Jo Jones late in his career, at Michael Steinman’s Jazz Lives. Steinman was able to speak to Jones and see him perform a number of times during that […]
Transcription: Sly Dunbar intros
Here’s a project I had been meaning to tackle for awhile- a compilation of Sly Dunbar lead-ins. These are all taken from Serge Gainsbourg’s album, Aux Armes Et Caetera, which is like a reggae drumming […]
Jon Christensen solo
Via Trap’d, here’s a solo by Jon Christensen: He has always struck me as being sort of the Billy Higgins of the ECM era- egoless-seeming, non-pyrotechnic. I’m working on a transcription of one of his […]
Ron Hudson 1940-2011
Via Rifftides: Seattle photographer Ron Hudson has died at 71. Jazz musicians were his primary subject, and during his career he photographed many of the greats, including Count Basie, Woody Herman, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, […]
Transcription: Three Intros
Another fast little project- drum intros from three of my favorite players, tracks, and albums: Paul Motian on Resistor, from Bill Frisell’s Rambler, Roy Haynes on H & H, from Pat Metheny’s Question And Answer, […]
This / Not This – episode 4 – New Wave
This: Not this flaccid little move at 2:18:
Todd’s Methods, Pt. 1: daku-daku-paradiddle
New series: quick and dirty presentation of some of my practice methods. The idea is to write them up fast and on one page, so explanations may not be as thorough as everyone would like. […]
It’s hard to believe it has an age.
Via Larry Appelbaum @ Let’s Cool One: today is the 50th birthday of one of the greatest albums in jazz, Oliver Nelson’s Blues and the Abstract Truth. Like a lot of other people, the first […]