“I used to be a free jazz drummer, now I just want to play tight arrangements.” — me a few years ago That’s not 100% true, but I’ve learned a lot of respect for the […]
Category: daily best music in the world
Daily best music in the world: 1-5 of ten albums
Reprinting this from my Facebook page— I encourage you to head over there and add me as a friend. There’s a thing going around where musicians list ten albums that were most important in their […]
Favorite albums: Trio Jeepy
Records that were important in my development, that might be in yours, too. Should be a major recurring feature, but very difficult for me to write. My problem is I don’t have much intelligent or […]
Daily best music in the world: Pete La Roca with Coltrane
Busy this week finishing an e-book outlining my “harmonic coordination improved” method. I think I’m going to call it Drumset Control. There are at least two other books with that title, by Mitchell Peters and […]
Daily best music in the world: Elvin plays brushes
You would think with all of this extra quarantine time I would just be writing up a storm, but I’m actually kind of blocked this week. So here’s Tommy Flanagan’s Overseas—a nice record with Elvin […]
Daily best music in the world: Billy Hart with Buster Williams
A busy few days here, so here’s a Buster Williams album with Billy Hart on drums, which I’ve been running on a continuous loop since Monday.
Daily best music in the world: RIP Jon Christensen
Dexter Gordon to Jon Christensen: “You’re not from Harlem, and you’re 20 years old – play how you feel!” My brother, John Bishop, said this on Facebook: “He was the sound, aesthetic, time feel, phrasing, […]
Daily best music in the world: Pygmy music
I’m working on a couple of new book ideas right now, so you’ll have to content yourselves with perusing our voluminous archives, and digging this absolutely amazing Pygmy music— African people also known as Aka or […]
Daily best music in the world: Bruce Ditmas
Honoring a new Facebook friend: Bruce Ditmas, an American drummer living in Rome. Here’s something he played on with Paul Bley, Jaco Pastorius, and Pat Metheny: He’s also on some Gil Evans records, including the Jimi […]
Daily best music in the world: what it is
Slow getting back into regular posting, but here are two great tracks that are better than anything I could write. If you don’t have a good jazz radio station in your city— you probably don’t— […]