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This is a piece a lot of you current or former percussion majors should be familiar with– Etude 4 from Methode de Caisse-Claire by Jacques Delecluse. I’ve made a three limb drumset study out of […]

Off to play at the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival under the St. Johns bridge in Portland this afternoon, with Andrew Durkin’s Proto-Human group. If you’re in Portland, come on down– we hit at 3:45.

Wow, I think that’s the longest we’ve gone without posting since I “revived this sucker somewhat” back in January, 2011. It’s been a very busy week with tour junk, car shopping, and brushing up on […]

Of marginal utility for anything other than moving a single human with no cargo a quarter of a mile in a straight line as fast as possible, while raising serious questions about efficiency due to […]

First beer. Note: I wrote this a couple of months ago and set it aside, thinking I didn’t really need to go here. But then I saw that Ted Warren has written about a similar […]

This is the last part of my excerpts of Chuck Braman’s 1996 interview with Paul Motian. I highly recommend you visit Braman’s site and read the entire unedited piece (part 1 – part 2); there […]

This is fun: Marc Myers at Jazz Wax interviews Loren Janes, one of the stunt drivers on Steve McQueen’s Bullitt. This film was slightly before my time- I’m more of the debased Smokey and the […]

Victor Lewis, via Ted Warren at Trap’d: Warren said Victor got his shoulder messed up and won’t be able to play for a while- you can visit him on Facebook to send him your best […]

Here are a couple of very special things from You Are What You Hear (“a live jazz blog”)- free, downloadable live recordings of Gateway (John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack Dejohnette) at the Blue Note […]

The Android Retro Camera app is dead to me. After much intensive research (I took a picture and opened it in Photoshop), I’ve discovered that while the camera phone has a maximum resolution of 2048×1536, […]