“Take it easy, now… there’s no work in this shit, they’re gonna jump on your ass…” — Sunny Murray to a young, interested, Hans Bennink Here’s an interview by Dan Warburton, with one of the […]
Category: interview
Mel Lewis on cymbals
More on cymbals from Mel Lewis’s 1985 Modern Drummer interview. This is pretty much the bible of the subject, as it relates to jazz: Number and type The average drummer usually uses two to four […]
With Ornette at the Five Spot
Ornette Coleman Another little excerpt from Scott K. Fish’s November, 1981 interview with Ed Blackwell, from Modern Drummer. Just a little snapshot of the scene at the Five Spot and the neighboring Jazz Gallery in […]
Ed Blackwell in Africa
Since we’re doing a lot with Ed Blackwell lately, here’s a little snippet from his November, 1981 Modern Drummer interview by Scott K. Fish, in which he discusses his 1967 and 1968 tours of Africa, […]
A treasure trove: WKCR Soundscape project
I just googled this up, from the WKCR 89.9 New York radio site: a duo performance by Ed Blackwell and saxophonist Charles Brackeen, recorded in 1980 at: Soundscape[,] a New York performance venue founded and […]
DBMITW: with a big hat tip to Chip Stern
I just got a couple of nice notes from drummer and writer Chip Stern (Modern Drummer, Jazz Times)- he’s made a bunch of big contributions to the literature of drumming, including an interview with Papa […]
Bob Moses on “dependent” drumming
Or as he called it a little later in Drum Wisdom, “non-independent” drumming. This is relevant to some of the things I brought up both in the ECM feel post and the open-handed post: “I […]
1984 MD interview: Ronald Shannon Jackson
Here are some excerpts from an interview I reread many times on the long bus rides on drum corps tour, about the great avant-garde (that’s where he’s typically filed, anyway) drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson. From […]
Ethan Iverson interview with Billy Hart
Here’s part of another great interview by the Bad Plus’ Ethan Iverson, this time with Billy Hart: Miles and Tony Tony, for his age, seemed to me more thorough in the study of the jazz […]
Jazz Truth interview: Jack Dejohnette
This is unusual: an interview conducted by a non-drummer geekishly opening with a discussion of bass drum technique. Here’s George Colligan of the Jazz Truth blog speaking to Jack Dejohnette. As usual, I’ve edited out […]