One of many inspiring moments. I got nothing today, congratulations to everyone on this late move towards national sanity. I suggest watchin...

“We'd have jam sessions at Minton's where the tenor players were long-winded,” Roach explained. “Don Byas would play 20 minutes on ‘...

Let's listen to some more Freddie Hubbard , again with Louis Hayes on drums. The album is The Black Angel, recorded in 1969, same as Hub...

A background project lately has been to create some ways of practicing feathering the bass drum as part of a modern, varying, organic jazz ...

Companion to yesterday's post: a syncopation exercise based on part 5 of the Chasin' the Trane transcription — all of the accents pl...

Here is part 5 of this transcription— the 25th-30th choruses of Elvin Jones playing Chasin' the Trane, from John Coltrane Live at the Vi...

UPDATE: Download link works now! There's an ongoing political crisis happening in the United States right now, and it's really hard...

1/7 UPDATE: Bumping this post from the distant past at the end of last month, when, in my sad, ridiculous naiveté,  I thought the worst was...

Let's take a break from watching the national degradation of the United States and its democratic form of government reach its apex live...