“Don’t ask me to show you anything, because if I could show you, we would all be Max Roach.” – Elvin Jones, from part 2 of Ethan Iverson’s Billy Hart interview
Category: Elvin Jones
Ron Carter on drummers
Here’s an excerpt from an old interview with Ron Carter, from Ethan Iverson’s Do The Math, concerning some of the great drummers Carter has worked with. Absolutely go read the whole conversation: EI: In the […]
Larry Appelbaum: Before and After with Billy Cobham
Larry Appelbaum, writer, blogger, and jazz specialist for the US Library of Congress, among other things, listens to records with Billy Cobham– covering Paul Motian, Lewis Nash, Ndugu, Philly Joe, and more. Here they are […]
Elvin Jones transcription round-up
I’m working on charts this evening, so here are some links to Elvin Jones transcriptions by other people: Summertime – transcribed by Steve Korn Have I linked to this before? If not, I should have. […]
Out-of-print LP rips: some finds
Here are some exciting drummer-led things I found while paying a visit to the thriving community of record-collecting bloggers dedicated to ripping out-of-print LPs and making them available for download. Apparently no one wants to […]
Rothman book recommendations
While the interview is fresh, I want to give my recommendations for Joel Rothman book purchases. God knows I haven’t seen his entire catalog, but these are very strong books: Basic Drumming – An everything […]
The only two videos available.
Another great post at Jon McCaslin’s Four on the Floor– the complete Elvin Jones documentary Different Drummer– reminds me of how scarce information used to be. Up through at least the beginning of my college […]
The Ultimate
Here’s The Ultimate Elvin Jones, one of the first Elvin records I ever got. I think it was out of print at the time, and I was really lucky to find an LP copy (a […]
Massive Mel Lewis interview
More great stuff from Jon McCaslin at Four on the Floor: extended radio interview of Mel Lewis by Loren Schoenberg, discussing the history of the drums in jazz from Baby Dodds to Elvin Jones. An […]
All About Jazz interview: Alvin Fielder
Here are some extended excerpts of an Allaboutjazz.com interview by Clifford Allen with drummer Alvin Fielder. Fielder was a student of Ed Blackwell’s, and a founding member of AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative […]