Here is some proper music, the wonderful John Coltrane with Elvin Jones on drums.
Happy holidays.
To be truly great you might need to be a bit, urm, eccentric. Here Jojo, looking delightfully freaky, discusses his relationship with bass pedals and his quest for deep pedal knowledge. Glad to hear the wave is cresting, about to…
She got the money and I got the honey Rich Woman by Li’l Millet & his Creoles is a brilliant New Orleans R&B song I had to learn for my recent Astrojets gig at Ain’t Nothin’ But in Kingly Street….
Speaking of Mike Clark and Paul Jackson, as I was not one blog post ago, check out the greasy funk on the following video. Mental. (The second part of this video is non-embeddable for some reason but it’s here –…
I’ll admit I’d never heard of Georges Paczynski before seeing this interview posted in my Facebook feed by the great street drummer, Oded Kafri. Paczynski talks about his love for jazz, for drumming and his philosophical outlook regarding pedagogy, human…
Here’s a great talk about being a disciplined musician by drummer Dante Roberson. The meaning of discipline here is keeping time and playing for the song, not the other kinds of discipline many musicians have trouble with. Practicing playing to…
I accidentally found this clip on this Vimeo channel in which David Byrne talks about technology used in music making. I am very ambivalent about technology in general and think its use in creating music has turned in to a…