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Very occasional quote of the day: making In A Silent Way

January 25, 2015
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Guitarist John McLoughlin on recording In A Silent Way with Miles Davis. Classic art can be very instantaneous: […] I had gone to New York to play with Tony [Williams] and Larry [Young], and I […]

Daily best music in the world, again: TOM TOMS, MAN

January 25, 2015
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Here’s Billy Cobham playing with Ray Barretto in 1973. The tom toms are just outrageous— really exciting: You never hear that sound any more— Steve Gadd just wiped everybody else out for fusion tom tom […]

Daily best music in the world: Hal Galper Trio

January 23, 2015
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Here’s my brother, John Bishop, playing with Hal Galper, with Jeff Johnson on bass, at The Blue Whale in LA: Post by The Hal Galper Trio.

Page o’ coordination: basic — 05

January 22, 2015
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Here’s another basic funk/rock page o’ coordination, this time using a series of es and as on the bass drum— to me this exact rhythm is a very 70s thing, and doing it with an […]

Very occasional quote of the day: Herzog’s 24 maxims

January 21, 2015
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From a Salon.com, here are 24 pieces of life/work/career advice from the filmmaker Werner Herzog: 1. Always take the initiative. 2. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting […]

Twitter

We tweet!

January 20, 2015
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Would that we were actually talking about Paul Klee’s painting “The Twittering Machine”, and not social networking. By the way, we’ll be making a fresh effort at getting going with the Twitter machine… I’m going […]

Truth and negativity

January 20, 2015
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This has been sitting in my drafts folder awhile— some thoughts on an older piece from George Colligan’s Jazz Truth blog, a collection of thoughts about negativity, positivity, realism, “telling it like it is”, and […]

Billy’s best

January 19, 2015
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Here’s some more essential Billy Higgins listening for you. I hesitate to declare anything the best— because a) the man played on over 700 albums, of which I have been exposed to, what, 5-7%? And […]

1/2 of a concert with 3/5 of the Four & More band

January 15, 2015
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First I want to acknowledge that headline… that just happened… OK… Does it seem like we’re in a Billy Higgins trough right now? I don’t feel like he’s getting talked about a lot— the current […]

Variations on Stone flam patterns — triplets and 16ths

January 15, 2015
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Lately I’ve been doing a lot with modulating between triplets and 16th notes, using similar stickings/coordination patterns. I’ve observed that it’s a thing with Elvin Jones’s drumming that he will play similar things in either […]