This is another old favorite of mine that’s just been floating around the Internet- you kind of have to look for it to find it- a 1996 Paul Motian interview by Chuck Braman. Not a […]
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Joey Baron master class, last part: Make Music With Whatever You’ve Got
Joey Baron master class at the New School, 1994: last part ELVIN JONES: I worked a gig at the Vanguard with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan, it was like a bebop thing, and Elvin Jones […]
Joey Baron master class, part 4: I Didn’t Go To Music School, I Went To Berklee
Joey Baron master class at the New School, 1994: part 4 PRACTICING: [W]hen I started to practice, I would like put my ear- since I didn’t have people to sit and watch close up, I […]
Joey Baron master class – part 3: I Forced Myself To Kick My Own Butt
Part 3 of Joey Baron’s 1994 New School master class: HOW DO YOU MAKE THE BAND LISTEN? Um, drown them out? No, well, you can’t make somebody listen. You can try to hint, you can […]
Joey Baron master class, part 2: Nothing But Complete Feedback And Noise
Part 2 of the 1994 Joey Baron New School master class, via rec.music.bluenote: PLAYING WITH JOHN ZORN: The challenges for working with a guy like Zorn- it depends. He’s got so many different kinds of […]
March 1985 Modern Drummer interview: John von Ohlen
Interview with big band drummer John von Ohlen from Modern Drummer, March, 1985, by Scott K. Fish, with the many good parts pulled out here, by me. Von Ohlen toured with with the Woody Herman […]
Kenny Clarke on the invention of the ride cymbal
…and modern drumming in general, excerpted from Ed Thigpen’s Kenny Clarke interview in the Feb. 1984 Modern Drummer. I originally posted this last year on the Drummerworld.com forum. From Thigpen’s introduction: It’s understandably difficult for […]