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Monthly Archives: July 2016
Harvey Mason on ‘Chameleon’
SKF NOTE: Listening to Chameleon by Herbie Hancock‘s Headhunters when the song was first released in 1973 was an experience today’s listeners missed. Cutting edge music in 1973, the best of Chameleon — the music, the sounds, the rhythm — … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Summers, Chameleon, Danny D'Imperio, Down Beat, Drummer, Harvey Mason, Herbie Hancock, Leonard Feather, Maynard Ferguson, Scott K Fish
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Syncopation: What if You Can’t Hear It?
SKF NOTE: Robert Palmer was a writer I could always count on for insightful interviews with musicians. Mr. Palmer knew his subjects, asked great questions, and always — from where I stood — treated his interviews as peer-to-peer musician conversations. … Continue reading
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Tagged Down Beat, Drummer, Gunther Schuller, New England Conservatory of Music, Robert Palmer, Scott K Fish, Syncopation
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Coltrane on Playing, Steadily, Steadily, Every Night
SKF NOTE: Black Giants is a 1970 book collection of interviews and essays with/about some of the “New Jazz” prime movers, i.e. Elvin Jones, Archie Shepp, and John Coltrane. Contributor Frank Kofsky‘s Septermber 1967 interview with John Coltrane has Coltrane’s view … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Giants, Elvin Jones, Frank Kofsky, John Coltrane, Rashied Ali, Robert Levin, Scott K Fish, SKF Blog
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Clifford Brown: You’ve Got to Hear Things Before You Can Do Them
SKF NOTE: At some point, serious music students — jazz students, at least — will meet Clifford Brown. A brilliant trumpet player, the world is blessed to have Clifford Brown’s impressive recorded legacy to listen to. Clifford Brown was 26-years … Continue reading
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Tagged Boysie Lowery, Clifford Brown, Drummer, Max Roach, Nick Catalano, Scott K Fish
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Scott K Fish: Les DeMerle Interview 1984
SKF NOTE: Last year I began posting small exchanges from the full transcript of my 1984 Les DeMerle interview. Here is Les’s full interview as published in Modern Drummer October 1984. In my 1984 introduction I write, in part, “During this … Continue reading
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