Dexter Gordon to Jon Christensen: “You’re not from Harlem, and you’re 20 years old – play how you feel!” My brother, John Bishop, said this on Facebook: “He was the sound, aesthetic, time feel, phrasing, […]
Category: Keith Jarrett
DBMITW: wah-wah
Keith Jarrett — Mortgage On My Soul with Paul Motian, and Charlie Haden rocking the wah-wah. We’ll be playing this tune in Seattle this Friday: More after the break: Ornette Coleman — Rock the Clock […]
DBMITW: the kind of playing I’d like to hear more of
With hyperactive fast-16th-to-32nd notes kind of dominating drummers’ collective mindspace today, I love hearing some utterly happening 8th note-based playing: Also:
Jon Christensen solo
Via Trap’d, here’s a solo by Jon Christensen: He has always struck me as being sort of the Billy Higgins of the ECM era- egoless-seeming, non-pyrotechnic. I’m working on a transcription of one of his […]
Charlie Haden interview by Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus
As I mentioned, I’m doing a lot of thinking about Ornette Coleman, and happened to find this excellent, extended 2007 interview with one of my favorite musicians ever, Charlie Haden, by Bad Plus pianist Ethan […]
Solo transcription: Jack Dejohnette – God Bless The Child
Another example of that ECM gospel feel with my original transcription of Jack Dejohnette’s famous solo on God Bless The Child, from Keith Jarrett’s Standards Volume 1: Keith Jarrett – Standards, Vol. 1 ECM B000VAKNLK […]
1996 Paul Motian interview, part 4: Rumba Beat on a Tom Tom
Fourth part of my excerpts of Chuck Braman’s 1996 Paul Motian interview: FREE: Chuck: When you first heard people actually playing free, how did it strike you, coming from a background rooted so strongly in […]
1996 Paul Motian interview, part 3: ding ding GA-ding
Third part of my excerpts of Chuck Braman’s 1996 Paul Motian interview. TIPS AND COMMENTS: Chuck: Did any of the musicians you worked with ever offer you any advice or make musical comments that struck […]
Transcription: Jon Christensen – Long As You Know You’re Living Yours
Here’s Jon Christensen playing some of those ECM backbeats on Long As You Know You’re Living Yours, from Keith Jarrett’s Belonging. I mean to tackle the big one- The Windup- soon, but in the mean […]