While I put myself back together after a long holiday in Seattle with the family, here’s a favorite old Art Blakey track, Afrique, from the album Witch Doctor, written by Lee Morgan. Buy it. Purely […]
Category: free jazz
Paul Motian 1931-2011
Update 2 – more notices: Jazz Times obituary Said saxophonist Joe Lovano, who worked often with Motian over the past three decades, “Paul was a strong, charismatic character, with a lot of energy and passion. […]
The Ed Blackwell story
From Branford Marsalis’ NPR show Jazz Set, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Joe Lovano, Max Roach and others talk about Ed Blackwell. Glad to see this resurface- I remember being glued to this, and […]
Masahiko Togashi
Here’s a very interesting drummer you don’t hear much about- Masahiko Togashi. In the early 00’s I heard a record he made with Don Cherry and Charlie Haden, and dug his very “drummy” style, but […]
Barry Altschul interview
Barry Altschul has been on my mind a lot lately- this performance kind of got stuck in my head, plus I was listening to a lot of Paul Bley before my recording session last week– […]
What I was doing yesterday
Here’s one of the rough mixes from yesterday’s session- Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman. I hadn’t planned on recording this tune, and we didn’t rehearse it, but we had nine tunes in the can, and a […]
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 […]
Tugboatism!
The Tugboat Brewery is a small venue in Portland which has for years been one of the primary places hosting consistently adventuresome music locally. The reason for this is strictly financial- basically, they didn’t want […]
I love German drummers
First, the aptly-named Jaki Liebezeit of Can: Gunter Summer of Dresden, Germany’s answer to Tony Oxley, or maybe Hans Bennink: Paul Lovens doing a fun thing with Eugene Chadbourne: More after the break: More “Baby” […]