The Monday Morning Paradiddle

Welcome back y'all and I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Here's what's cooking over here around the Four of the Floor offices these days and presented to you in this edition of the Monday Morning Paradiddle:

- The ever-wise Victor Lewis interviewed by All About Jazz:

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/victor-lewis-the-drummers-spirit-victor-lewis-by-victor-l-schermer.php

- Ignacio Berroa shares his thoughts over at The Trap Set:

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- WBGO gives the drummers some in this column, featuring new releases brought to us by several current drummers:

http://wbgo.org/post/take-five-gives-drummer-some-justin-brown-jonathan-barber-susie-ibarra-and-more#stream/0

- An interview with Ralph Peterson Jr. in Modern Drummer magazine:

https://www.moderndrummer.com/article/december-2016-ralph-peterson-forward-motion/

- Toronto drummer Nick Fraser recently featured in Downbeat magazine:

http://downbeat.com/news/detail/nick-fraser-rides-the-new-wave-of-toronto-jazz

- Thanks to Adam Nussbaum who sent along these two links to a 1972 concert in Paris featuring Elvin Jones and his quartet!

https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/les-legendes-du-jazz/elvin-jones-en-1972-a-paris-1-2-60676

https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/les-legendes-du-jazz/elvin-jones-en-1972-a-paris-2-2-60649

- Bill Stewart gets busy...



- Billy Hart sets up a tune with his quartet:



- Adam Nussbaum and Seamus Blake get into it with Italian organist Alberto Gurrisi:



- Herlin Riley puts it all out on the line (the second line?) with this one...



- New York drummer Colin Stranahan offers his creative experience on The Creative Mindset Podcast:



- Willie Jones III with some musical advice from a recent masterclass:



- Mark Nelson, a GREAT drummer from Montreal, demonstrates some nice Gretsch drums, brought to us by the nice people over at Timpano Percussion:



- Tenor Saxophonist Ben Wendel with drummer Justin Brown from Wendel's new "Standards with Friends" series:



- Special thanks to John Riley who forwarded along this AMAZING clip of Ruben Bellavia's transcription performance of Tony Williams' drum solo on "Walkin'":



- What am I listening to these days?

Joe Henderson "Double Rainbow: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim" - Jack DeJohnette, Paulo Braga (drums)

Al Henderson "Dinosaur Dig" - Barry Romberg (drums)

Kenny Barron Quintet "Concentric Circles" - Johnathan Blake (drums)

Bill Charlap Trio "I'm Old Fashioned"

Bud Powell "Off Minor" - Kenny Clarke (drums)

Don Thompson Quartet "CBC 1977" - Claude Ranger (drums)


- And today's Final Word goes to the late John Birks Gillespie:

"Take care of the Music, and the Music will take care of you!" - Dizzy Gillespie