Monthly Archives: February 2016

Phil Collins: Nobody Had Ever Heard Anything Like That’

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Scott K Fish

Phil Collins Looks Back on the ‘In the Air Tonight’ Drum Break: ‘Nobody Had Ever Heard Anything Like That’ By Jeff Giles February 12, 2016 10:42 AM That album’s landmark single, “In the Air Tonight,” contains one of rock’s most … Continue reading →

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Maurice Purtill: I’m Not Dead

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Scott K Fish

  SKF NOTE: After I had closed for the night the cheese shop I managed in Huntington, NY, I was standing outside with Andy, one of the meat cutters from the butcher shop next door. Somehow we got around to talking … Continue reading →

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Remembering Mickey Roker

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Modern jazz first clicked for me at the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island while I was listening to Charles Mingus‘s group. Included in that group was a skinny, long-haired saxophonist named Bobby Jones. It was impossible at … Continue reading →

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Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Newly Released ’66 Vanguard Recordings

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Listening this morning for the first time to the track, Big Dipper, from the newly released Thad Jones/Mel Lewis CD, All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Village Vanguard Recordings, I am reminded of how great is this big … Continue reading →

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Enthusiastic Kids Might Actually Know Something

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: I think his name is Chris. He was a young guy who called me from time-to-time, at Modern Drummer, full of enthusiasm about a local upstate New York drummer he said we should interview Chris was the only … Continue reading →

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