Another nice podcast from Jazz Online, this with King Crimson and Yes drummer Bill Bruford discussing Joe Morello and Dave Brubeck’s Time Out. The conversation is from 2009, when that album turned 50, but is […]
Jimmy Cobb on Trane
This is part of Jazz Onlines’s “Tranumentary”, discussions about John Coltrane, mostly with people who played with him or knew him (though not all- a surprising inclusion is Anton Fig of the David Letterman band). […]
Drum chart: Mamblues by Cal Tjader
Here is a chart of Mamblues, from Cal Tjader’s album Soul Sauce, transcribed by me. It’s a pretty straightforward (but burning!) salsa tune on a blues form, with a cascara groove, mambo on the vibes […]
Zildjian cymbal set-ups of the 70’s
In the mid-70’s the Zildjian cymbal company put out what has become a classic booklet of cymbal set-ups of their pro endorsers. Who were all using those same bright, middle-of -the-road 70’s A’s across a […]
A lot of hip LP covers
Jazz specialist for the US Library of Congress, writer, and blogger Larry Appelbaum has a couple of huge galleries of LP covers which you should be looking at right now. Emphasis is on jazz of […]
Joe Morello news and tributes around the web
JoeMorello.net: It is with great sadness that we report Joe’s passing on March 12, 2011. His impact on the world of music and on all those whose lives he touched will live forever. Four on […]
More metric modulation: 4:3 warm-ups and more
My last hastily-slapped together piece on 4:3 metric modulation was such a hit with my Drummerworld.com poeple, that I thought I should backfill some preparatory exercises for it. Here the emphasis is on keeping the […]
Joe Morello 1928-2011
“March12, 2011 Hi All, Sorry to be the bearer of sad news. Joe Morello passed away in the hospital this morning. He was 82 and had been having heart trouble. No other details at this […]
Processing black & white film
I was going to write up a how-to for developing your own black and white film, but it wouldn’t really be any improvement on the one I started with, from Justin Ouellette’s Chromogenic.net. It’s actually […]
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 […]