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 […]
Category: Ornette Coleman
Groove o’ the day: T & T, too
While you’re feverishly working on yesterday’s GOTD by Ed Blackwell, allow me to throw at you a similar version of the same groove from later in the tune, which again is T & T by […]
Groove o’ the Day: Ed Blackwell – T & T
Here’s another Ed Blackwell groove, from the intro to Ornette Coleman’s T & T, off the album Ornette: For clarity, here is the same groove written as separate rhythms, without the bass drum: We’ll be […]
DBMITW: Lonely Woman
Maybe I shouldn’t be posting this so close to the release of my own CD with this tune, but it’s too good let go. Would you have the nerve to do what Paul Motian does […]
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 […]
I get interviewed
Oregon Music News’ Tom D’Antoni talks to me about my current project outside the Blue Monk:
Old & New Dreams – 1980 lecture/demonstration
From Warren Senders at Running Gamak, here is audio and a transcript of a clinic given at Harvard by Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell) during their 1980 […]
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 […]
Projects
Light posting for a couple of days while I proof a transcription/analysis I’m submitting to Drum! magazine– they’ve expressed interest in my Vinnie Colaiuta/Keep It Greasey piece (from the guitar solo in 19/16)- here’s hoping […]