This is from Ted Panken’s memorial drummers’ roundtable on Billy Higgins, broadcast on WKCR after Billy Higgins’s death in 2001. Here Jeff Watts talks about what Higgins meant to him: I first began to collect […]
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Ed Blackwell on playing with Monk
Another choice bit from Ted Panken’s interview with Blackwell— Blackwell played with Monk in 1972: I’ll tell you what happened with Monk. During the course of the gig, after about a week… He used to […]
Ed Blackwell on playing the Five Spot with Ornette
From Ted Panken’s 1986 interview with Ed Blackwell on WKCR NY: So when you got to New York, you found yourself in the midst of the scene that was shaking New York’s art community to […]
Andrew Cyrille interview by Ted Panken
Here’s another in my series of choice, drummer-relevant bits of other people’s interviews, this time with Andrew Cyrille, by Ted Panken: Ted Panken: Are there different challenges for you in dealing with, let’s say, the […]