Melao Para El Sapo, a New York-style Mozambique by Eddie Palmieri. I’m finding that my page of Mozambique from 2013 is holding up pretty well as a method for getting some basic fluency with this […]
Category: daily best music in the world
Daily best music in the world: two drummers
The Modern Drummer website has a decent little list of great double-drumming tracks. I was ready to come down on them for not including the Butthole Surfers, but no, there they are— a bold choice for […]
Daily best music in the world, again: TOM TOMS, MAN
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
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.
Billy’s best
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
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 […]
DBMITW: Glen Moore
Good music for a very windy day here in Portland, from Glen Moore, bassist from the band Oregon, who lives in town: This record Nude Bass Ascending is basically a perfect album— it has held […]
DBMITW: Portland song
New video by my partner Casey Scott!
Daily best music in the world: earlyish Steve Gadd
Here’s some really great funk drumming by Steve Gadd, from 1975, on a fairly obscure album: Mobius, by Cedar Walton. Gadd invented or perfected much of the drumming language that is now usually just called […]
Daily best music in the world: tracks that used to get me in trouble
Here are a couple of things I was listening to when I was at USC, which used to get me in trouble with some of the other students, for playing too… aggressively, let’s say. One […]