More quotes from Elvin Jones, compiled by Norman Grossman, passed along to Jon McCaslin by Adam Nussbaum, posted on Four On The Floor. Go and read them all, here are a couple of very important […]
Category: Elvin Jones
Very occasional quotes of the day: from Elvin
Jon McCaslin at Four On The Floor has posted a collection of quotes from Elvin Jones, collected by Adam Nussbaum. Here are two of my favorites; there are many more at FOTF: “Thad told me […]
Snare drummers vs. drum set players
This came up in the Neil Peart piece: the idea of snare drummers as opposed to drum set players. People who play the drums as a single four limb instrument vs. people who are essentially […]
Practice loop: Tunji
Here’s a practice loop made from a long sample from Tunji, by John Coltrane. It’s from the album Coltrane, which is one of my favorite records in the world— everyone should own it. Also see […]
A minor rant: Elvin’s 18
In Elvin Jones’s 1982 Modern Drummer interview, Rick Mattingly asked him about his use of an 18″ bass drum: RM: I’ve heard various explanations of why jazz drummers started using 18″ bass drums. Some people […]
Michael Shrieve interviews Elvin Jones
Very busy this week, so just another little link share of something very cool: part 1 of Michael Shrieve’s interview with Elvin Jones. You’ll probably want to follow Shrieve on Facebook, too— he’s always posting […]
Key players: Elvin Jones
This is the first in a series of thumbnail introductions to some important players. Like everything on the blog, this is my personal perspective— there’s no pretense that these are complete historical sketches, or a […]
New e-book: 5 Elvin Jones Transcriptions
Here’s what I’ve been doing all weekend instead of writing blog posts: writing a new e-book of some transcriptions previously available on the blog, all re-proofed and edited: Summertime (drum solo), Lonnie’s Lament, Big Nick […]
Page o’ coordination: Elvin’s Afro-waltz – starting off the 1
Hearkening back to one of the very first pages o’…, in which we worked on developing an Elvin Jones-style waltz, the way he played it on John Coltrane’s Your Lady. It’s an interesting groove, with […]
Zachariah blow by blow
There’s a famous-among-drummers scene from the early 70s film Zachariah— a “psychedelic” cowboy movie with a big musical component. It features a purported drum solo by Elvin Jones, which gets shared around the internet as […]