Here’s Jon Christensen doing some nice open, dynamic playing on a slow, static vamp: Keep It Like That — Tight from Terje Rypdal’s self-titled album on ECM from 1971. We love Christensen because he’s a […]
Category: ECM
DBMITW: trove o’ Burton
I’ve been listening to a lot of Gary Burton lately— like the past five months or so— but haven’t been sharing much because there’s a shortage of his recorded stuff on YouTube, except for this […]
Several ideas in 5/4
Nothing particularly ground-breaking here, but this came up today while I was working on Mevlevia, an ECM-type tune in a moderate 5. I’ve taken some basic patterns in 5/8, and applied them to a usable […]
More Stick Control in 5/4
Another way of using Stick Control in 5/4 came up in my practicing recently, as I was working on Mevlevia. What I’ve done is change the rhythm to three beats of 8th notes and two […]
Transcription: Bob Moses — Mevlevia
Here’s a quick take of a tune that will be part of my set on the Europe trip this year: Mevlevia, from the Gary Burton record Ring, with drumming by Bob Moses. This is one […]
DBMITW: Jon Christensen is great
Jon Christensen, on Ralph Towner’s Solstice: Maybe it’s not a perfect analogue, but I think of him as the Billy Higgins of the fusion era– an egoless (in his playing, at least!), perfectly musical drummer. […]
More Stone on the drums
Here’s something timely to the ECM feel post. I’ve been using Stick Control quite a bit in my practicing lately- particularly my application in 5/4 (and a similar thing in 7/4), and in fooling with […]
A crash course in the ECM feel
Look for the photos with water and the Helvetica font. The “ECM feel”, as it’s now being called, is a style that evolved in the late 1960’s and 70’s, and has since become one of […]
Transcription: Jon Christensen – Dansere
This goes out to my old friend Tim Willcox, who turned me on to this record- Jan Garbarek’s Dansere, with Jon Christensen on drums. Christensen is pretty important to the current thing going on in […]
Jon Christensen solo
Via Trap’d, here’s a solo by Jon Christensen: He has always struck me as being sort of the Billy Higgins of the ECM era- egoless-seeming, non-pyrotechnic. I’m working on a transcription of one of his […]