Here’s something new to me- though for all I know it’s a common thing- for stupid dogmatic reasons I for years stayed pretty willfully ignorant about the finer points of playing in odd meters. Probably […]
DBMITW: Young Man Blues
Another one of these was dropped in my lap, so I guess I’ll continue this feature du jour. A different performance of the standout track from Live at Leeds:
Paradiddle shift with bass drum
This is something I’ve been working with, and finally had the time to write up. The paradiddle shift is a pretty common exercise involving the displacement of the paradiddle by one 16th note. Most people […]
Daily best music in the world
Twice in a row makes this a feature, I guess. Because I don’t have time for much else, here’s Weather Report from 1971, with Alphonse Mouzon on drums and Dom um Romao on percussion. Plus […]
J.C. Moses
Ted @ Trap’d mentions and posts audio from a drummer I haven’t thought of in awhile- J.C. Moses, drummer with Archie Shepp’s New York Contemporary Five, Andrew Hill, and Sam Rivers, among other people. Along […]
Favorite albums: Billy Higgins
I guess I could’ve called this Higgins and Haden. These are four records from what is for me the classic phase of Higgins’ career in terms of his sound- he’s got that heavy-ish rivet cymbal […]
Best books: The Essence of Brazilian Percussion and Drum Set by Ed Uribe
The Essence of Brazilian Percussion and Drum Set is the little sister of Uribe’s massive volume on Afro-Cuban percussion. I’ve been using it almost daily for several months now, and not only is it a […]
Day of the Podcasts! Airto on Jake Feinberg’s show
They just keep coming. Here Jake Feinberg (of the great interviews with the likes of Mickey Roker, Richard Davis, Dick Berk, and much more) talks to Airto, who I’ve been listening to and thinking about […]
Podcast – Episode 4: Charlie Parker heads
Today’s podcast is a selection of practice loops made from the heads of well-known Charlie Parker tunes: Billie’s Bounce Yardbird Suite Donna Lee Cheryl Quasimodo Scrapple from the Apple Au Privave Crazeology (actually by Bud […]