It’s testimony to the lameness of the Internet— not my readers, who are awesome, but all the rest of that rabble— that the videos in Bad Plus drummer Dave King’s Rational Funk series mostly get […]
Probable dialogue: “Come on, swing, you mother— SWIIIIIING! YEAH! YEAAAH!” So, I hear the big hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Whiplash, a movie about the tumultuous relationship of an abusive, hard-driving jazz […]
Jazz educators respond to the makers of Whiplash, who are represented by the hapless trombonist. UPDATE: Oh, here’s another one, from Jazz Is the Worst, a blog that is attracting a lot of attention in […]