Another curiosity for the groove o’ the day, and the first drum beat I ever learned: Jocko Homo by Devo. Drums by… I forget if it was Bob 1 or Bob 2 [UPDATE: Oh, it […]
Light posting
Still on light posting, through the weekend most likely, while I finish up some other projects. So enjoy some Dom Um Romao: A whole lot more of Dom after the break:
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
Another new drumming blog
I’m really trying to put a finish on this bloody book of transcriptions this weekend (it’s ending up being about 150 pages long), so while I’m fooling around with that, you can go check out […]
Pinstripes reconsidered
Here drummer and Modern Drummer writer T. Bruce Wittet takes another look at the now-humble Remo Pinstripe. For a good part of the 70’s and 80’s they were the drum head of choice for many, […]
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- […]