The Monday Morning Paradiddle

Welcome back. Here's the latest collection of things to check out this week:

- From Paul Motian's memorial service, here's Andrew Cyrille and Jabali Billy Hart playing together in a serious "percussion discussion":

https://soundcloud.com/symphony-space/a-tribute-to-paul-motian-8

Thank you to New York tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry for passing along this gem!

- Irish bassist and blogger Ronan Guilfoyle offers an excellent article with some pragmatic ideas about the idea of innovation and tradition in today's world of Jazz music:

http://ronanguil.blogspot.ca/2017/01/i-dare-you-innovation-versus-tradition.html

- Brian Blade talks about his recent projects and outlook on music via offbeat.com:

http://www.offbeat.com/articles/brian-blade-talks-back/

- Toronto drummer Nick Fraser is interviewed over at Positively Underground:

https://positivelyunderground.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/the-uncoverables-podcast-nick-fraser-interview/

- NPR features percussionist Cyro Baptista:

http://www.npr.org/event/music/501564127/musical-cannibalism-with-cyro-baptista

- Yoron Israel interviewed over at WGBH:

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Jazz-247-Conversations-with-Eric-Jackson-3496?episode=68794

- Susie Ibarra featured on Roulette.org:

http://roulette.org/an-interview-with-susie-ibarra/

- Not a drummer specific column (although he DOES play great drums!), here's some wisdom from tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi via Steve Tres:

http://stevetres.com/2016/11/jerry-bergonzis-secret/

- A couple of interviews with Arizona's most recent resident, Lewis Nash:

http://theshow.kjzz.org/content/437449/legendary-jazz-drummer-lewis-nash-teaching-next-generation-drummers-asu




- Quincy Davis returns with another "Q-Tip", this time demonstrating his transcription of Philly Joe Jones' snappy solo on the tune "Julia":




- Ari Hoenig demonstrates some comping ideas with the brushes:



And of course this led me down the YouTube.com rabbit hole where I came across this duo performance of "Togo"(of "Old & New Dreams" fame) with Chris Potter on tenor saxophone:




- Antonio Sanchez offers some wisdom in advance of the upcoming documentary feature entitled "The Art of Listening":




- Here's a couple of burning clips featuring Rodney Green on brushes:






- A nice demonstration of Vernel Fournier's classic drum groove on Ahmad Jamal's "Poinciana":



Fournier offers some personal insight into this unique drum beat here:




- Drummer/percussionist Lafrae Sci talks and demonstrates how to "make colours" on the drumset using sound and rhythm:




- What am I listening to these days?

Wayne Shorter "Schizophrenia" - Joe Chambers (drums)

Keith Copeland Trio "Live in Limerick" - Keith Copeland (drums)

Ellis Marsalis "The Classic Ellis Marsalis" - James Black (drums)

Jesse Davis Quintet "Live at Smalls" - Billy Drummond (drums)

Joe Lovano & Greg Osby "Friendly Fire" - Idris Muhammad (drums)


- And for today's Final Word, rather than leaving you with a one or two-line inspirational/motivational quote of some sort, here's two articles from upliftconnect.com that seemed to have resonated with me lately:

"A Japanese Technique for Overcoming Laziness"

http://upliftconnect.com/japanese-overcoming-laziness/

"The Daily Routines of the World's Creative Geniuses"

http://upliftconnect.com/routines-worlds-creative-geniuses/


That's all I've got. Thanks for checking in and have a great week!