Life and Music

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Notes on drumming

1. Some Issues of control

2. Oroony Oreeney O'Routee Mellow MacVouty Groovy --Slim Gaillard

3. Eccentricities, drumming, fragments and quotations (essay in progress)

Teaching Jazz

by Phil Woods

Thelonious Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960)

Monk’s advice

 

"Just because you're not a drummer, doesn't mean that you don't keep time."

"Make the drummer sound good." --Thelonious Monk

Careers In Jazz   (pdf file from www.billanschell.com.)

The truth hurts. Funny stuff by Bill Anschell

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. --Hunter S. Thompson