Big band drumming tips from Butch Miles, from the Oct. 1977 issue of Modern Drummer. They apply to all types of music, of course: SUPPORT. If the band has a difficult passage, support them strongly. […]
Category: jazz
Tune of the moment: Misterioso
Thelonious Monk’s Misterioso is a strangely beguiling little tune: It’s a slow blues, with a melody of running even 8th notes. That doesn’t sound hard. Except somewhere in the playing of it, it always goes […]
DBMITW: Joe Henderson
Another long one: Joe Henderson with Al Foster and Dave Holland:
VOQOTD: Elvin
“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
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 […]
Very occasional quote of the day: on forethought
“[T]his shit is an accident.” – Paul Motian
Drum chart: Along Comes Mary by Cal Tjader
Pillaging the archives while I’m working on tour/book-related junk, I turned up another Cal Tjader drum chart, written by me a couple of years ago. I’ll try to do more of these in the future- […]
DBMITW: Gadd with Chick
I’m working on putting last year’s transcriptions into book form today- which, thanks to the miracle of online publishing, should be available for you to purchase shortly. So you’ll just have to enjoy these two […]