I’m getting ready to travel on Sunday, and have other things on my mind, so here’s a 2021 podcast interview with Joe Chambers. The interviewer seems like a pretty knowledgeable fan, but he doesn’t talk too much and Joe gives him some good conversation. It’s timely to the free jazz post— he talks about avant garde drumming, and is skeptical of it. Which is useful not to help dismiss it, but to understand what he fundamental aspects of drumming and music he thinks it’s not fulfilling. And there’s some other good stuff:
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