I’ve probably posted this before, I don’t care. A record forgotten by everyone, released on Impulse! about the time I was going to school in LA, at USC. I listened to this a lot, and […]
Category: daily best music in the world
Wayne’s gone
One of my favorite solos of his:
Daily best music in the world: Roy Haynes with Charlie Parker LIVE
This is pretty amazing. Rough sounding live tape of Charlie Parker in 1951, with Roy Haynes on drums… sounding basically like any other subsequent time in his career. Incredibly modern playing for 1951. h/t to […]
Daily best music in the world: hey, my brother’s in Downbeat this month
Here’s my brother, John Bishop, playing with Hal Galper and Jeff Johnson at the Blue Whale in Los Angeles. Tune is Ascendant, from one of the great records ever, The Ultimate Elvin Jones. I’ve seen […]
Daily best music in the world: Wilby Fletcher with McCoy
Here’s what I was talking about the other day, about Wilby Fletcher. At some point plays the cymbal rhythm I discussed. It doesn’t matter, the whole thing is incredibly powerful.
Daily(?) best music in the world: Elvin Jones Trio LIVE
Awesome live recording by one of the greatest trios ever, the Elvin Jones trio with Joe Farrell and Jimmy Garrison. Here they’re playing in Berlin in 1968. Nothing to do here but listen:
Daily best music in the world: early 90s zeitgeist
Here’s a record I almost forgot about, that had a big impact on the way I play the drums. From 1988-90, David Sanborn was the leading guy getting new and eclectic music to a (reasonably) […]
Daily best music in the world: Sunny Murray
Getting ready to head to Germany in a week, so content will be a little light. Here’s a cool record by Sunny Murray— usually the outest free guy in the world, here doing some swing […]
Daily best music in the world: Freddie Hubbard – Jodo
Absolutely killing tune here— Jodo by Freddie Hubbard, from his album Blue Spirits. Pete La Roca is on drums. Soloists are Hubbard, Hank Mobley, McCoy Tyner, and La Roca. I sometimes forget La Roca is […]
Lopsy Lu revisited
Someone left a rather odd comment on my old Lopsy Lu transcription, of Tony Williams playing with Stanley Clarke, and I saw that my own notes from that 2015 post are also rather obscure, so I […]